It turns out that most PC power supply units with active power factor correction (PFC) do not work well with lower-cost uninterrupted power supplies (UPS), e.g. battery back-ups. This I learned the hard way, as my Antec EarthWatts EA 500 PSU, which I adore, will go dead the second the battery on my APC Back-UPS [...]
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MSDN Northeast Roadshow: Sept. 24 in Augusta, ME
The MSDN Roadshow returns to Augusta, ME and the Central Maine Commerce Center’s Florian Auditorium on Sept. 24, from 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. (That’s a later start than recent roadshows, because directly before it, there’s a TechNet event about Windows 7 and Remote Desktop.)
MSDN Roadshows are a chance for Microsoft evangelists — namely, Chris [...]
FTP Error 425 “Can’t open data connection”: Time To Reset Your Router And Modem
So you’re running a copy of FileZilla server on your Windows IIS Web server, you try to connect via your copy of FileZilla client, and you receive the most dreaded of all FTP error messages:
425 Can’t open data connection. **
You try searching for “FileZilla server 425” and are sent to a Wiki page about network [...]
How To Take A Screen Shot: Windows, Mac OS X And Linux
If you need to capture an image of your screen so that you can post it to the Web, here’s how:
Windows
Hold down the Alt key and press the Print Screen key. On most desktop PC keyboards, Print Screen is on the top row of keys, to the right of the F12 key.
Open Paint: Start –> [...]
Good, Free Web Site Building Tools
A common question on Yahoo! Answers is how to go about making a Web site.
Generally speaking, people asking that question are best off using templates provided by Web hosts such as Freewebs, Geocities, WordPress or Blogger; these systems take out the guesswork and make otherwise complicated design tasks relatively easy.
But sometimes, the questioner is really [...]
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Automatic Updates And Windows Vista Issues
So your operating system is Windows Vista, you have one of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) packages and you’re browsing the Web.
You notice a message pop up above the task bar: Adobe Updater has updates to install. So you click on the message to see the updates, then click the install button.
But shortly after, [...]
