For over 25 years, computers and information technology has been a part of my life (thanks Dad), and there are countless success stories and many happy people because of my opportunity to help them. This site is dedicated to helping in any way possible as it pertains to programming, databases, blogging, virus protection, web design, graphics tips, and to even some personal encounters and information with sports, scouts, music, and anything else I feel like blogging about. I encourage you to join in with me and make the freedom of community information, gift of the internet, a reality.
OpenSource
Submitted by snapjag on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 04:42There are many nice application for free use out on the internet today and you can get a lot of work done with them. It's true that a tried and true application that has been through the rounds of official, organized testing can be had with a purchased product, but if you're patient with some bugs, and non-standard features, then you're in for winning applications.
We use them as much as we can so we can help people in all areas and keep our costs and prices down. If we need to go with some purchased products, your prices will go up, but we want to make you happy and achieve what you need.
Travel
Submitted by snapjag on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 04:22There are so many things about traveling that we like to do. This book is going to help provide lots of information about where we've been and where we want to go. I am gong to compile a ton of things that will help the budget traveler. Whether they are good or they are gotchas.
Considerations when writing emails
Submitted by snapjag on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 23:04Minimize how many times your logo accompanies your email, if at all. It comes across as a heavy marketing campaign and it gets in the way of the real message. People know you are there and don't want to see gobs of pictures or logos. If it's necessary, then keep them small and out of the way of the content. Just like there are messages at the bottom of emails now a days that state "think about the environment before printing this email". It's exactly the same with how much info and how large the email is that's sent to people. Even though people have "unlimited" space in an email account.
SQL Server Best Practices
Submitted by snapjag on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 07:01There is nothing better than knowing exactly what needs to be done to get the best results from your technology. Especially from a database server. Why wouldn't someone read the manual of a car to know how it works. Because everyone wants to have the satisfaction that they got in the car, ran it, and never had to look at the manual. Yet, you didn't know you had to do maintenance, where that maintenance should take place and at what intervals.
Well, this is where best practices come in. Don't try and drive your car and let the engine just church without know how to best care for it.
Windows XP Restarts at AGP440.sys
Submitted by snapjag on Sat, 02/28/2009 - 15:42You may have had an experience with your computer that caused it to now reboot everytime the AGP400.sys driver is accessed either in normal Windows startup or in safe-mode.
As I searched all over the internet, nothing concrete in the forums surfaced, but I did find this article from Microsoft. It helped me to resolve my issue, I thought I would post it so other found a solution to this problem. Good luck, here's the link.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324764
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Virus protection and other pesky bugs
Submitted by snapjag on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 23:47There are a lot of virus out there. So many in fact, it's necessary to pay $40-$60 a year (that's not too bad considering) to keep the pesky little worms, trojans, malware, and other funky named thing you can think of, off of the computer.
We want to review and give information about this tough battle. I'll give you my advice, what I do, in general terms of course, because there are some things I have to keep for myself to pay the bills. But all in all, everything, with some tool, and experience of course, can be exterminated.
