Torrents Missing
As a followup to a previous post about torrenting, I have been asked about ‘missing’ torrents. That is to say, torrents that never make any progress in downloading.
Simple answer: It’s not making progress because it’s not available. Continue reading Torrents Missing
How to Update a Website, HTML based
Creating a website is different from updating one that already exists. Both are doable, but updating is simpler. In this post I’ll go over how to update a site that doesn’t use a CMS. Just standard HTML (although PHP would be fine too). Continue reading How to Update a Website, HTML based
Recovering Dead Drives
Computer drives being what they are, it is inevitable that yours will fail. The question is what you do when that happens. Much of the answer to that depends on how much of a ‘crisis’ that failure is. A good backup strategy mitigates the issue, but even then you might have data you want recovered. Absent paying expensive professionals there are steps that can be taken. Continue reading Recovering Dead Drives
When I use a computer belonging to someone else, I am often amazed by the amount of junk that websites toss at their users. Ads, pop-ups, singing and dancing, junk everywhere. If you ignored the distraction, all that stuff is still a bad idea. It slows down the system, running code that has no value to the owner of the system (which is arguable a violation of anti-hacking laws). Continue reading How to use uBlock Origin
Why you would want a Virtual Machine
A virtual machine allows you to run an operating system inside of another operating system. While not of immediate value to the average user, it is useful in a number of situations.
I primarily use it to test out programs and visit questionable websites. For programs, I can run them and see if they do anything useful. All without having them impact my ‘real’ operating system. For websites, same idea. Copy in links from email, or other mysterious sources. Adds a whole system worth of protective layers to what you’re doing. And when you’re done, just discard the changes and you are ready for next time. Continue reading How to setup a Virtual Box
Recently I’ve been asked how to do this torrenting thing. On the idea that the answer would be of use to more then just the person asking, below is an answer.
First, the quick overview steps. For those who don’t want to read a longer answer.
Quick Overview
Install a Torrent Client
Add Torrents to Client
Wait while Torrent downloads
Enjoy Downloads
Continue reading How to Torrent
Initial Setup
These initial setup steps need only be done once. They take a standard windows system and get it ready to turn a dvd into a standalone video file (which you can then move to your phone/tablet/whatnot). There are (of course) other ways to achieve this result, this is merely one method that I think works well. Continue reading Guide to DVD Ripping (and shrinking)