Reading is a wonderful thing! There is nothing quite like finding an amazing book and unraveling its secrets; Sometimes it feels like you're the only one that knows them. The hours you spend reading can build quite the bond between you and the main characters you're reading about or reveal a wealth of information. At the same time, you don't want to hoard the amazing story you … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
How to Organize Smilies on your phpBB3 forum
Smilies (or emoticons) are far from essential for a phpBB forum, but they add some variety and humor while allowing posters to express themselves in different ways. I find having a variety of smilies a great addition to any board, but if you get too many they quickly become an unorganized mess. This article is a write-up of some of the tips and tricks that I've employed to … [Read more...]
VMWare Server: free Virtual Machine Infrastructure, step-by-step
Another Frewaregenius article is up under my name, this time I discuss VMWare Server in length. I've been looking for a replacement for Microsoft's Hyper-V that came with Windows Server 2008 after it consumed a lot of resources, slowed down startup and shutdown times, and caused performance glitches related to video and audio. VMWare Server seems to be the one I was looking for … [Read more...]
NTFSDOS – See NTFS drives in DOS
NTFSDOS is a utility by my favorite company, Sysinternals. This tool allows you to interact with NTFS formatted hard drives in DOS. There are actually two tools that I'm referring to: NTFSDOS and NTFSDOS Professional. NTFSDOS (3.0.2) allowed read-only access and was available for free. NTFSDOS Professional (4.0.3) allowed read/write access and required a license. After … [Read more...]
Open All Unread in One Click – a phpBB3 Mod
It's a rare and exciting opportunity when I get to introduce something I've developed. I'm an administrator for a small phpBB forum and I've regularly installed mods to tweak the behavior of phpBB to match my user's needs. I did some looking around but couldn't find anything to match a direct request I had: Open all the unread posts in one click instead of having to click each … [Read more...]