Apr 2, 2012
LibreOffice 3.5.1 Released
The latest version of LibreOffice 3.5.1 has been released. If you are looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office and tired of waiting on OpenOffice releases then you will want to go and get this great alternative. Personally I like this alternative to Office and really impressed with the releases and features it adds. read more
Mar 31, 2012
Install mod_perl on Apache 2.2 on Windows 7
To continue on with developing on Windows using Apache/MySQL/PHP I wanted to add mod_perl to the mix. For this post I chose to make it work on Apache 2.2 but it could possibly work on Apache 2.4 as well, but I have not tested they portion yet. First piece of the puzzle is to download a version of Perl that supports the Module on Apache. In the past I have gone with ActiveState’s ActivePerl but... read more
Mar 30, 2012
Booting OS X Snow Leopard in 32 bit mode
Recently ran into an issue on a MacBook Pro and programming a Logitech Harmony 900 remote with communication when uploading the new configuration. The Program would just prompt to plugin the remote to the USB and would never recognize it was plugged in. After doing a bit of digging in the forums found the issue was with the Mac OS X drivers from Logitech for Harmony Remote 7.7.0 were 32 bit only.... read more
Mar 27, 2012
Perform In-Place file edit with VBScript
Recently had the need to search and replace a configuration file on a system. This was part of an installation of an older program that required a variable to be replace with the computername. Being that the systems were Windows of several different releases (2000, 2003 and 2008) I could not use Powershell to complete the task and went with vbscript as the tool of choice. Here is what the script looks... read more
Mar 24, 2012
VLC v2.0.1 Released
The all-in-one VLC (Video Lan Media Player) has released a bugfix version of the best free cross platform player available. You can download it from here. This is my goto piece of software on Windows and Linux for playing all types of media. Many fixes available in this release. Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1: ——————————– Access: * fix... read more
