Archive for November, 2007
cftmon.exe
24 November 2007 I was going to shut down my system today (Win XP) and this program was hanging things up, so I decided I did a little research on what it is.
Basically it’s a program associated with MS Office, that is used in conjunction with voice and writing recognition. It’s something I definitely don’t need, and […]
Happy Thanksgiving
22 November 2007Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
Cheers.
Test SMTP
21 November 2007 Here is a good resource from Microsoft to test if your SMTP is working. This is useful if you have some time of application then sends out notifications.
Basically you open a Telnet session and then connect to your SMTP address over port 25.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323350
Enable VT in Dell D630
21 November 2007 So I wanted to do some virtualization testing on my notebook, but couldn’t find where to enable VT. Here is where:
POST Behavior/Virtualization - Enabled
Another note, if you have a D630, at the time of this posting the A04 bios is out now.
Cheers.
G.Skill RAM
19 November 2007Well I had written previously how I purchased new RAM for my notebook, 4 gigs! So I wanted to post some pictures of the process like I’ve been meaning to do.
Here is the nice and colorful packaging the RAM came into. I mentioned this before but the main reason I purchased this particular SODIMM RAM […]
Emo Cartoons
17 November 2007I thought this site was interesting. It features these emo cartoons with two characters named Pon and Zi. There is a gallery to browse through of the cartoons. I really like the art style and the use of colors.
http://www.ponandzi.com
Internet Radio
16 November 2007 Sometimes I like listening to the radio on the Internet, and one site I really like is www.Pandora.com.
Pandora.com is Internet radio with a twist. What you do is pick a band you like, and then Pandora will take that music and play other songs and artists that are similar. For example, type in Foo […]