Archive for 'Technology' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
APC 350 UPS
16 November 2007I wanted to quickly write about my recent experience with APC. I recently purchased this APC 350 UPS from my local Fry’s Electronics.
I didn’t open the box for awhile, and 30 days had passed by the time I started using it. Unfortunately it had some electrical glitch and didn’t work correctly. I thought I was [...]
Android Demo
13 November 2007What a boring video. Okay coders, first thing, design a new interface. :]
Prevent email from being marked as spam in Gmail
12 November 2007 Gmail has been marking some of my email as spam lately so I needed to fix it. The first thing I thought of was to create a filter that automatically moves email from that address to my inbox, because I didn’t see any other way to do it. However, that’s not an option.
Upon further [...]