In my efforts to get my company’s demo rooms up and running with the solutions we offer to our customers, I have been faced with numerous Windows errors and issues. The one I have been faced with today was an error message stating “The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation.” However, I am the administrator and I …
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Removing a Category From Your Feed in WordPress
If you run your site on WordPress and using it as a content management system, you may have realized that there are categories of posts that you don’t want published on your feed. There is no easy way to do this through WordPress by default, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t possible to accomplish. You can eliminate certain categories …
Read More »Limiting the Length of an Excerpt in WordPress
In WordPress, there are two ways to display a summary of a post that I have found so far. Depending on your scenario you can use either php the_content(‘Read more…’); ?> or . I usually end up using both depending on the page that is being displayed and simply choose which with a “if, else” statement. In most scenarios it …
Read More »Filtering Comments in WordPress: Removing trackbacks and pingbacks from posts
As WordPress becomes more popular in the Web Designer circles (is that possible?), many of the functions we are looking for are simply not integrated by default. One of the functions I searched for for a long time was a way to filter comments so pingbacks and trackbacks wouldn’t be displayed on my posts or pages. I personally don’t care …
Read More »Dell Servers Come with Pre-Installed Malware
Nothing ceases to amaze me anymore. Those of us that have relied on system manufacturers to provide us with clean systems, servers, and components “out of the box” now have a new wrinkle to iron out. If you have spent any money on a Dell server these days you may want to check your model… and receipt. It seems Dell …
Read More »The Requested Lookup Key Was Not Found In Any Active Activation Context
I don’t understand why things just can’t seem to work seamlessly. Especially when you are talking about Microsoft Products. You would think that one Microsoft product would work without issue with another, and you would think that you are pretty much guaranteed that this would be the case when the Microsoft Product in question is installed through Windows Update. Enough …
Read More »Rocketfish Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse: RF-BTCMBO2
Along with the migration of the PC from the home office to the living room comes a bunch of new challenges. Some of these challenges are simple and some are not so simple; one of my greatest challenges was controlling my HTPC from across the room. I will not accept having a wired keyboard and mouse attached to my HTPC nor will I suffer from relying on line of site wireless devices. With that said, a solution proposed itself in the form of the Rocketfish RF-BTCMBO2 Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse one day while I was strolling through Best Buy.
Read More »Google Voice Review
If anyone knows me, they know I play with things for no reason, that is my nature. With that said, whenever I find something that I haven’t used, haven’t heard of, or could find any reason whatsoever to try, I will. That is the case with Google voice. Google voice is not new to many, but it is to me. …
Read More »Eagle Tech ET-AR508LR-BK 2.1 Speaker System
There is a new category of computer user out there that I am discovering. I have been well aware of the uber geek that accepts nothing more than maxing out their credit cards on the top of the line peripherals and equipment, and I have been versed in the practices of the novice as well. New to me is what …
Read More »Goodbye Mac Mini, Hello Shuttle X350 / XS35
Ok, so my days of wandering through Microcenter’s Apple area pondering whether to buy a NEW Mac Mini are over. It was a short lived dream… or nightmare; I haven’t figured that out yet. Apple almost had me until Shuttle announced its XS35 at Computex this year.
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