There's a guest post with my name on it over at Freewaregenius. Today's article is about Gazelle.com, a site that assists recycling your used gadgets. If they're really old, Gazelle will ship you a box to return the gadget to them for proper disposal. If it has value, they'll send you a quoted amount of money. It might be a whole lot easier than trying to find a buyer on eBay … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2010
Use HP Web Jetadmin To Simplify Printer Management
In my organization, our networked laser printers are mostly made by HP and we have a large number of them so anything to make managing them and their consumables would be a godsend. One of the things to manage them, HP's Web Jetadmin, has been out there for quite a while but I finally got around to check it out. At this point, anything that can save time and make up for the … [Read more...]
Experiences with Three PHP Frameworks in Brief
I'm by no means a PHP developer but I do like to tinker around with it on the side for fun projects on my own and very rarely if something comes up at work. (A lot of my work involves filling in the gaps. Why just last week I was a Visual Basic 2008 programmer again.) Before embarking on my next project, I decided to check out some of the PHP frameworks I've heard about to look … [Read more...]
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Updates to 9.3.4
More ammo for complaints of Adobe Acrobat getting bloated: by including Flash inside of PDFs, whenever a vulnerability with Adobe Flash is found it means a Flash update is required and then a week or two later, Adobe Reader and Acrobat also need to be updated. Today, those Reader and Acrobat updates hit the wire. They were previously announced that they would be coming sometime … [Read more...]
Book Review: Time Management for System Administrators
The Summer really has flown by. Another school year is about to begin. Working at a university, that means the optimum time for working on longer term projects has come to an end and it's about to get really busy with just the day-to-day tasks again. I was swamped through the Summer with tedious projects and with students returning it will only get busier. I've been reading … [Read more...]