I often find myself crawling under the desk looking for labels or turning around laptops trying to find half-erased and destroyed panels showing computer serial numbers and other cryptic hyeroglyphs.
Let me tell you about serial numbers. These are quite useful to keep handy in case your stuff is stolen. Luckily, for most manufacturers like Dell, [...]

Yesterday, as I was leaving work, I plugged the 4th gen iPod on the car, set it to random and started driving. 10 minutes later, I noticed it was skipping some songs. I’ve seen it happen before (a long time ago) and was lucky enough to:
a) have it within the warranty period
b) have the [...]

Domain Name Services for dummies:

Resources:

DNSStuff – Most tools you’ll ever need while away from your box (and some you never remember)

ZoneEdit – Free static and dynamic DNS hosting

OpenDNS – Free DNS resolution service. An alternative to the use of Internet service provider’s DNS servers (features a phishing filter, malicious site reporting and typo correction)

Well, if iTunes 7 let people download 600×600px cover art for their downl^H^H^H^H^H ripped CDs, why wouldn’t the rest of the dog-bless iTunes impaired people world have the ability to do so?
Hell, they give you the liberty of use your language of choice and all: PERL * PHP * Python * Ruby

And one day something terrible happens.
The server which this site was running on (and a few others) had a few problems with the mainboard power module and started shutting down every now and then. It is a mini-ATX system using some kind of proprietary power supply (which was replaced promptly for an identical one – [...]