For the last month or so, I’ve been using my gaming box as my development machine. With that role come tons of background services which, in turn, eat up memory that could otherwise be used to play games. Luckily, I have Windows Home Server and made a backup prior to the computer’s transformation. However, whenever [...]
In my most recent Adobe Flex project, I am storing color in the database as a hexadecimal number. However, Flex’s color picker widget (mx:ColorPicker) stores color values in decimal format. Now, I could use PHP’s dechex() function to convert the number, but I’d much rather send the data over in the proper format. After much [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, I use Microsoft’s Windows Home Server as my home’s central data store. Recently, I upgraded from the trial to the full version. Since I was going to upgrade the installation, I figured that I might as well (slightly) upgrade the server itself. As such, I wanted to copy off the data [...]
For the other two people on the planet that have rescued HP, Dell, or other OEM motherboards from their stock cases, you might have noticed that the rear-panel audio jack on the motherboard stopped working. Apparently, some motherboards (an HP dC7100 CMT in my case) will turn off the rear-panel audio jack if the front-panel [...]
The other day, I asked a friend for some pictures of a concert and wedding that we both attended. Normally, for smaller files, he’d just send me what I wanted through Skype. However, as anyone who uses Skype will tell you, peer-to-peer transfer speed in the program is abysmal. Not wanting to set him up [...]