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Importance of Version Control in software development

Version Control is more important, more useful than people seem to realize.  Many programmers understand its importance, but still don’t bother with it.  Consider this scenario: You are a small company that makes widgets.  The software that controls the widget maker...
DosBox with built in MT-32 Emulation

DosBox with built in MT-32 Emulation

To experience the old (classic?) games the way they were meant to be heard there’s a new branch of DosBox with built in MT-32 emulation.  Back in the day not many of us could afford an actual Roland MT-32 so we settled with Adlib and SoundBlaster. 🙂  If...
Physical Machine to VM

Physical Machine to VM

Aging application on aging hardware.  Common problem with a simple solution.  These tools will keep the legacy app going for a few more years while you hammer out the migration path 🙂 Contact me for additional assistance! VMWare Converter Disk2VHD CloneVDI...
Hibernate Windows 7 and Vista

Hibernate Windows 7 and Vista

In Windows 7 or Vista, if you want to enable hibernation you can do the following:    Drop to a cmd prompt as administrator, and type: powercfg  -h    on after a reboot you can edit the hibernation settings from the advanced plan settings of the power control panel...
Microsoft Support Scam

Microsoft Support Scam

You receive a call from a weird number, and are greeted with someone with an Indian accent.  They ask you to hit WINDOWS+R to bring up the RUN box, and type in www.support.me, or ask you to type in CMD and then ASSOC and then will read you this number:...
Odd 404 Error with aspx pages

Odd 404 Error with aspx pages

Ran into a situation that took me a little troubleshooting recently where .aspx pages would not show up in a browser, instead would only display a 404 error. Looking in the IIS log I found the following: 127.0.0.1 GET /Default.aspx – 80 – 127.0.0.1 404 2...
MS-DOS is 30 years old today…

MS-DOS is 30 years old today…

Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, otherwise known as 86-DOS, was designed by SCP to run on the Intel 8086 processor, and was originally...
Apple’s Media Event

Apple’s Media Event

Today’s Apple event went down as planned, and while there were no real surprises, it was nice to see the rumors come alive. I’ve yet to see the Nano Touch in action (the video isn’t live yet) but I can’t imagine it will be easy to navigate on...
Free Coding Classes

Free Coding Classes

Google is offering free online classes in C++, Java, Python and Go. Take advantage of the free classes here! 44.32-78.325