There’s an annoying issue with the latest version of WordPress. If you use the XML-RPC interface to post blog posts (anyone using Windows Live Writer, w.bloggar, or any other desktop blogging software) you’ll notice that < and > tags are stripped from the output. This means formatting in posts will be screwed up, and you’ll [...]

Here’s an interesting article on how the IBM TrackPoint was developed, how it was dismissed and forgotten about, and how it suddenly became the feature that made IBM ThinkPads the best notebooks on the market. For those who don’t know, the TrackPoint is the pointing stick found on IBM, Toshiba, the business Dells, and a [...]

I just built a low-end server for testing and backup purposes, out of an old motherboard, an Antec case and a 640gb hard disk. I made a decision to not include an optical drive in my system, not necessarily because of price (a Pioneer SATA DVD-RW is $35 at CentreCom right now! </shameless-plug>) but because [...]

It can if you want it to. The Synapse socket library for Pascal makes it quite easy to create a Wake On LAN program, which can be used to turn your computers on over the network. By sending a special packet via UDP, you can turn on any modern computer remotely, as long as it [...]