Posts categorized under ‘Technology’

It was not too long ago that I would look forward to the weekend so that I could visit one of the many local golf courses to knock a little white ball around a field of green. Like many things in my early 20s, I took the game way too seriously and would become incredibly upset whenever something did not go quite as well as expected. So, while I may have quit playing the real game, nothing will prevent me from enjoying a virtual game.

Well, this is certainly interesting. It looks like my stupid-intensive MySQL Query is using waaaaaaay too much processor to return some quick figures. In addition to that, it seems that this same query is making the processor work so hard that it’s running at over 130% utilization.

Apache, a wonderful bit of software, can be configured to collect and record all sorts of wonderful information. But what can we do with it? Well … why not shove it into a MySQL table and massage it for reporting purposes? I’ll even show you how.

This marks the 900th post on j2fi.net and, rather than do something predictable like look back at some of the more popular posts or anything like that, I thought it would be more interesting to share my experiences on upgrading a group of WordPress 2.9.x sites to a single WordPress 3.0 site.

Kenji and I have debated a great many things and, more often than not, we can only agree to disagree. However, it seems that one of my predictions from last year has actually come to pass!

I received an odd message after connecting my 3rd Generation iPod Touch to my Windows XP notebook today. Apparently, there is now a camera in the device …

How many cell phones have you owned and hated? One? Three? All of them? It’s a question that I’m running into more and more as people are unsure of what to buy when their contracts come up for renewal.

HP has a driver update out for their iPaq 200-series PDAs, but the email advertising it makes the matter seem quite serious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

At long last … it seems that the hybrid solid state storage devices are being paired with their more traditional spinning disk counterparts. To be completely honest, I never thought this day would come.

Kenji has been running both Windows XP and Windows 7 on his computer for months but, since he was bored over the weekend, he decided to uninstall Windows 7 in a very simple an unconventional way … with some unexpected results. Luckily, I could help him solve the problem that arose afterward.

Kenji and I sat down to have a discussion about the purpose and meaning of icons used in software; particularly the use of a floppy disk to mean “save”. Looking at it from a different perspective, icons can be seen as little more than 21st century kanji with roots buried in the past.

Want to hide partitions in Windows XP whether they exist or not? It’s much easier than you think. Three minutes and a quick sip of coffee will see this simple little registry edit through start to finish.

After putting Windows 7 on my main computer and going through the necessary updates, it seems that there’s a small problem whenever I try to install the Windows Phone 7 CTP … it’s incompatible with other key Microsoft software. Oh, what fun this will turn out to be!