A few years ago, the only place you would see an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) was on a server. Many companies and institutions couldn’t afford to have their server being abruptly shut down by the weather, or when other issues were wreaking havoc with the power company. A UPS, while not terribly cheap, was an [...]
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You should use a UPS with your computer.
March 30, 2006 No comments
Adsense or Chitika in your Joomla site.
March 30, 2006 No comments
Some CMS programs have an issue when you try to put specific code within the site. Joomla is one of them. If you try to put ads in a content page with the “script” tag in them, the tag becomes garbled enough that your ad doesn’t show. Adsense There are a couple Adsense options that [...]
from Blogger.com to self-hosted WordPress
March 28, 2006 No comments
Today I made the switch. I’d been considering moving to WordPress for the last week. First, I’m going to tell you how I switched, and then I’ll tell you why.
Power Supply Review Fortron Sparkle FSP/SPI – ATX-400PN 400W ATX 12V 20/24 PIN 120MM Fan P4 AMD Ready OEM w/Noise Killer P/N: ATX-400PN-B204 After a few changes in our home network, namely the addition of a computer acting as a file/print server, I was in the market for a new power supply unit. The computer [...]
Dead ABIT bios? ABIT will send you a new one free!
March 24, 2006 No comments
A bios flash gone bad can kill your bios. Yes, sometimes you can create a boot disk that automatically reflashes it, but sometimes it’s fried. So what do you do if you’re in this situation? ABIT will send you one for free.
Why your next PSU should be a high-efficiency one
March 23, 2006 No comments
Usually when there’s talk about computer power supplies, the main concern is one of the following: low price quiet (low noise) sufficient wattage stable voltage on the +3.3 +5 and +12 volt rails Rarely is the efficiency a big concern. However, it should be.
URL Subdomain Redirection – how and why?
March 21, 2006 1 comment
UPDATE: I eventually abandoned the site. Interest wasn’t terribly high (turns out there are numerous other options out there), and it didn’t really take off the way I’d originally hoped. Write-up is still here for anyone interested, but keep in mind the actual site is gone. Last night, I decided to start up another [...]
Two days into Chitika, and I was faced with some pretty discouraging results… Adsense was performing very much the same – quite surprising, as I expected a 50% drop. I was faced with perhaps a 10% drop. Chitika on the other hand was not performing… at all. That’s right, much to my surprise, there was [...]
Webhosting Review – asmallorange.com
March 19, 2006 4 comments
The first web host I ever used was CanadianWebHosting.com. It wasn’t for me, rather my father’s site, and we were looking for a Canadian-based web host for his small business. They offered domains for $15/year, and 100mb monthly storage / 5GB montly transfer for about $5/month. A couple years later, I was looking to obtain [...]
The Chitika Experiment… Part I
March 17, 2006 No comments
Background Most of my sites use Adsense, but as wonderful as Adsense is, it’s not perfect. For those who don’t know how Adsense works, it’s a form of “contextual advertising”. What happens is Adsense scans the content of your web page, and provides ads that are targeted to the user, based on the content of [...]
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