Review: Skype (First Contact)

Speaking of talking to a friend, I’m sitting here working on my computer and Skype woke up with my first phone call. And worked remarkably well! I was using my corporate issue, utterly devoid of style (see 6th paragraph), Dell Cinderblock 9000 laptop, which apparently has a built in microphone. While compensating for the tinniness […]

More on FIOS

Talked with a friend tonight who is up on Verizon’s Fios service. So, it does exist! He’s very happy, it’s very cheap. As you surf around you’ll find out that this cheap, high-speed services does not provide a fixed IP. You can get one, but then it’s a $100 service (according to Internet hearsay), so, […]

phpMyAdmin

Was able to get phpMyAdmin working with little trouble. The configuration file is pretty easy to go through, and the documentation is very good. Most of the time is spent with Apache config making sure the HTML source is only accessible on the local host. Not much of an issue since the machine isn’t accessible […]