Sat Jul 15, 2017

How To Back Up Files On Windows With Robocopy

The easiest way to back up files in Windows is probably just to copy and paste them to another drive. There is one issue with this, however. Maintaining a backup of a small amount of data is easy, but keeping up with a backup of hundreds of gigabytes of files can become tedious. This is especially true if Windows runs in to a file that already exists on your backup drive.

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Fri Jun 16, 2017

Linux: Autostart Scripts In Terminal Windows

There is lots of information on the internet on how to run scripts on login in Ubuntu. There is one issue with most of these methods, however! The scripts usually run invisibly in the background! There are plenty of cases where that is considered to be a good thing, but what if you want the startup scripts to run in nice terminal windows?

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Mon Jun 12, 2017

Beware. Sub $20 DVD Drives Ahead.

Ok, so you might be tempted to buy that cheap $18 DVD drive you spotted on some place like Amazon, Microcenter, or Newegg. Don’t do that! (Unless you want to buy another drive next year) Here’s why.

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Tue May 5, 2015

Archive: PC Build Woes

Back in February of last year, I made a post about all of the trouble that I had with my Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 graphics card. Since then, I have made three surprising discoveries about the issues that I was having with my graphics card. First, the graphics card was not the cause of the problem. Second, my Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus 500W power supply was a total piece of junk.

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Wed Mar 5, 2014

Archive: Picky Webservers and TimThumb

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Wordpress based websites quite a lot. This includes my dad’s website. It had an issue with its thumbnail generator from day one. I decided to dig around in the thumbnail generator script. At the beginning of the script, I saw that it was named TimThumb. After doing some research on TimThumb, I found out that the version on the website was actually vulnerable.

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