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How to shrink a drive using Vista’s Disk Management

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

When attempting to shrink their drive for various reasons (like creating a new partition,) many people are surprised to see that Disk Management (accessible from Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management in Windows Vista) only allows them to shrink the drive to a certain amount of space.
The reason for that, as you might’ve figured, […]

How to create your own nameservers with GoDaddy

Friday, August 29th, 2008

If you’re using a dedicated server for your website, you’ll most likely also want to create your own nameservers at your domain (such as ns1.geekpedia.com, ns2.geekpedia.com.)
Creating these nameservers is done at your registrar. At GoDaddy the option is a little obscure. First click the domain name that you want to create the nameservers, then look […]

A Virtual PC image for each Internet Explorer version

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

As pointed out by my associate, Microsoft is offering a Virtual PC image for every modern version of Internet Explorer: IE6, IE7, IE8 (Beta 2) and IE7 for Windows Vista. This is basically a Windows image with the specified version of Internet Explorer, and it will hopefully help you test your website in all these […]

The Fickle-Colored Picture

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The image below is apparently a typical picture that had its channels swapped. Most likely you will see the motorcycle as blue; however, try saving it to your computer and look at it again. It’s probably going to show as red. Also look at the thumbnail in folder view and it will appear as green […]

Removing XP Antivirus 2008

Monday, August 25th, 2008

One of my machines was recently infected with a worm called XP Antivirus 2008 which was unexpected, seeing as to how I haven’t gotten a virus in well over 5 years. XP Antivirus 2008 was developed in the Russian Republic and it’s purpose is a commercial one: to have you pay about $50 for a […]