phil's blog

I've had the opportunity to test out Windows 7 and I must say, I really like what I see! Not only is it quick, but the engineers at Microsoft have finally begun to realize that their software needs to make sense!

Enough of the Kudos, I still personally believe that Microsoft has a long way to go before they ever get a clue... so, on to the topic at hand: Getting the Intel 865 video drivers to work on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Programs to check if port 80 is being used by another program, but no known webservers are installed (ie apache or IIS)

Installing Uniform Server, it would not run on port 80, giving an error that there was another program using port 80. After doing some research, I came across two programs which might be the problem:

• Skype (uses port 80 & 443)
• AVG 8.5 (Active Link-Shield)

Change the port on Skype to resolve the conflict

Disable the AVG Active Link-Shield to resolve the conflict

First off, I want to say that I LOVE my Android based G1!! It is the best phone I have ever owned!

Ok, with that being said, I was driving home late one evening and ran into the horrifying issue of "Your SIM card does not allow a connection to this network" which is apparently specific to the G1... Some people have reported that they receive this while roaming but as far as I know, I was never in an area of roaming...

I recently created a classified website (Jan 2009) that is dedicated to used asphalt equipment. One of the features I wanted on the site, was the ability to transparently expire a node after x days (45 to be exact). The well known craigslist.org has a similar feature where a post would expire after 45 days but they recently changed it to 30. I'm guessing there are so many posts being put out that most people only look at the first few days.

The new year came and went and I was stuck with the annoying task of updating the copyright year in the footer of about 15 different Drupal websites. A long time ago, (When 2008 rolled around) I had tried entering some custom PHP code into Drupal's "site information -> footer" area and quickly found that the drupal site information footer won't accept anything except plain text :( So, I was forced to manually update the sites individually which wasn't a big deal then because I only had to update the copyright date year on about 5 websites.

If you are a real estate agent or maintain the computers for a real estate company, you are probably pretty familiar with the FNIS MLS online product: Paragon 4 MLS.

I recently decided to update a laptop I have, to Windows Vista. It is a bit of an older laptop, but fully capable of handling Vista. With it being an older laptop, I have an issue with the internal sound card where it just flat out doesn't work any more... (rare, but not unheard of) I read somewhere that on the particular model I have, plugging in an external set of speakers, can 'fry' the sound card if there is any static on the stereo jack... I don't know how 'true' that is, but whatever, the sound doesn't work.

Well, I ran across this page trying to find a keyboard shortcut to shut down vista. The problem with the blog on the site, was that it explained how to create a shortcut to shut down vista, but not use the keyboard to shut down or in my case, hibernate vista.

I have two Linksys WRT54GL wireless routers setup at the house running DD-WRT, with one running as the main internet / wireless router and the other is used for extending the wireless signal by using WDS. I've never been very pleased with the performance of the WDS and I've read that WDS isn't the most efficient way to go... DD-WRT v24 was recently released and with it came a much more stable way of repeating the wireless signal through a repeater bridge function of the router.

I maintain several computers for a small Sign & Screen printing company, who use Windows 98SE for their main vinyl plotting computers. The reason (I'll try to keep this short) is because the store owner has a few years of age on her and she really didn't like the newer versions of the plotting software they use, so they've stuck with a version that really only works in Windows 98. (I've tried to talk them into upgrading and it hasn't happened yet...)