Jim Becher - Surfing the Web

I typically work with ISO files rather than keeping CD’s or DVD’s. If I need to mount the files I use Deamon tools, but if I need to quickly burn these to DVD or CD’s I use The ISO recorder powertoy. http://blog.neilmonday.com/2007/04/how-to-burn-isos-directly-in-windows.html

There are some times where I just wonder why SharePoint is so popular. I had an instance where a client would like to have the login page secured. This would require the login page (forms based authentication) to have an ssl certificate. Since I had setup sharepoint to use SSL…

I love it when a great new application comes along and is open source. The guys from DimDim, have created a Webex and Livemeeting like application that is open source. www.dimdim.com I was using, www.vyew.com but will give this a try. In my initial trials it has worked well. You…

My backup server and utility server is a ubuntu box in my basement. Nothing special, an old laptop with a USB drive attached for backups. Every night my machines rsync with it and keep files nice and safe. Recently I noticed the main partition was getting a bit full. I…

Microsoft recently released silverlight to compete with flash. Adobe has now just release (pre-released) their new release of flash. It has some interesting additions in this release Flash 10 “Astro” prerelease You will have to read the link above to get all the new enhancements, but I am interested to…

Here is a link to an interesting article and chart showing that the bandwidth of the amazon services is higher then all the global amazon sites. That is pretty amazing, when you think of all the commerce and shopping going on with amazon. This just validates that people are getting…

Here is a great list of all the current and future ultra portable laptops. I am really starting to think about getting one for home / travel use. (Lilputing) I had only heard of the EEE pc now realize there are a few others available. The main element I am…

I have been talking about “one device to rule them all” for a long time. If you look in my posts you see that I have a vision that one day I’ll have a device (may look like a cell phone) that I call my computer. It has some type…

The Olympic torch has always been a special thing. I can remember as a kid watching someone carry it by, we must have been in a large city at the time. I always thought how cool it would be to carry the torch. A symbol of unity and the beginning…