This October 1st, 2009 marks one year since Comcast started enforcing their monthly bandwidth cap limit at 250GB. If a user were to go over the limit in one month, they would receive a warning by some means of communication. A second occurrence of going over the limit would result in a termination of services for a year. October 1st, 2008 I declared to be the first Net Loss Day … [Read more...]
Happy SysAdmin Day 2009!
It was just under 200 posts ago and a year ago (the last Friday in July) that I was wishing you a happy sysadmin day back in 2008. Hopefully the past year has gone smooth for you and we've all learned a thing or two thousand in that time to perform the demanding tasks in IT better. If you're not in Information Technology, be sure to wish your IT department a Happy SysAdmin … [Read more...]
Happy Earth Day! – A Green Compilation
Happy Earth Day! Here's an article for all of you green thumbs on home row. I've compiled a lot of the articles previously features here at 404 Tech Support that are related to environmentally-conscious behavior and we'll revisit them to see how we can reduce our effects on the environment. Also, at the end of the article, I'll dig into some exciting alternative means to … [Read more...]
Microsoft SuperPreview and BrowserShots – Your website in different browsers
Due to the way Internet Explorer is integrated with the Windows operating system and just the restrictions Microsoft puts on it in the first place, you can only have one version of IE on a machine at a time. Of course, I've covered Tredosoft's Multiple IE solution before, which does allow you to have more than one version, but Microsoft has just released (in beta) a solution … [Read more...]
Clean up your Context Menu
The context menu (what pops up when you right-click) is one of the most popular items to clutter; a lot of programs will add their shortcuts or filetypes to the menu when they get installed. It's also a very under-used, convenient location that you could put your frequently used functions and shortcuts. This post should show you how to tame the context menu and make it work for … [Read more...]