I don't know what on Earth AOL developers do in their AIM 6.x setup but they sure manage to mess things up in Vista. Once AIM is installed, my network detection no longer works and it gives an error that reads: "No network - server execution failed." The problem seems to be some kind of COM error and the fix …

The web interface for VMware Server 2 Beta for Linux is garbage; it's both slow and unattractive. Even VMware Server 1 and ESX Server 2.5 from years ago had a faster/nicer web interface. VMware Server looks a bit like ESX and my experience with ESX taught me that it can be administered with both the web interface and …

I've been out of work for over two months, recovering from surgery to fix a severe repetitive stress injury. It started about two years ago when my workspace was setup poorly. I hyper extended my arm to mouse for about two months and it caused an inflammation that eventually lead to calcification. Somewhere along the …

Not even one-handed typing with a gimp shoulder in a rotator cuff cast can stop me from blogging this... PowerShell 2.0 CTP is now available! I won't get to play for weeks, sadly. So...on an unrelated note; anyone know what's the best dictation software out there? Thanks.

While visiting one of the best music discovery blogs ever, aurgasm.us, I noticed that the author, Paul Irish, had implemented a really slick Infinite Scroll AJAX technique which smoothly loads the next set(s) of posts without loading a new page. This blog is awesome and the author wrote some sweet code. I was so …

I found a pretty good Wordpress Security Whitepaper over at BlogSecurity.net. I followed most of the techniques, especially those that concerned protecting the wp-admin directory, since that's what got me hacked last time. Also, today, while installing 8 GB of RAM into my virtual server and after more than a decade of …

First and foremost, I'd like to wish netnerds.net a happy birthday! I'm 10! "NetNerds.net" turned 10 years old on October 22, 2007. I wanted to post that day but I got hacked and didn't want to post again until I fixed the problem. So how did I end up with the name netnerds.net? Well, I called my best friend …

I'm so excited -- my best friend and tech partner-in-crime, Brandon, recently picked up PowerShell after I gave him a copy of Wrox's Professional PowerShell. He totally loves it and has already created a few new PowerShell scripts and converted other ASP.NET/VBScript scripts. One of his favorite scripts checks the …

Hah! I bought an 8-bit tie the other day from ThinkGeek. It arrived, I sported it at work much to everyone's pleasure then I went home and took an action shot. My smile in the picture looked silly but the tie was rockin so I 8-bitted my face and submitted it to ThinkGeek. I checked out the page today and there I are! …

Hai. I got hacked. brb.