Microsoft Surface parody
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on June 22nd, 2007
Head over here if you haven’t seen the real video or want more info on it.
Apple WWDC 2007 intro video
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on June 20th, 2007
A video with the ‘PC’ guy in the ‘Mac vs PC’ ads posing as Steve Jobs.
A better quality version can be found here if you’re interested. ;)
Sharebee.com
Posted by Benny Chew in Tips & Tweaks, Web on June 16th, 2007
Just a site I came across earlier today which (re)uploads the file you uploaded to multiple file upload sites (Megaupload, zSHARE, Sendspace, RapidShare were the ones used when I tried). Sendspace links weren’t working for me then (apparently being fixed) and Megaupload link only worked after some delay. Link to the site: Sharebee.com
I don’t have much use for it, but if you’re into uploading files for multiple users to download from, this site would definitely cut the amount of time spent uploading to each different service. ;)
This modern life
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on June 8th, 2007
Air travel in the near future
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on May 26th, 2007
via Schneier on SecurityÂ
A very neat WordPress plugin
Posted by Benny Chew in Tips & Tweaks, Web, WordPress on May 17th, 2007
As stated in the WordPress’s Codex, one of the steps in doing a proper upgrade of WordPress is deactivating all plugins beforehand (and reactivating upon successful upgrade). Since I’m managing a number of WordPress sites, and each WordPress install has a fair bit amount of active plugins, doing this is a considerably arduous task and annoying (especially so since updates/upgrades get released often).
I was googling around for a quick fix for this and found this plugin which works a treat. :)
Now if only that can be added to my shell script which currently automatically grabs the latest.tar.gz and rsyncs all the separate installs to promote further efficiency and laziness..
Conan visits Intel
Posted by Benny Chew in Humour on May 13th, 2007
A rather humorous clip of comedian Conan O’Brien’s visit to Intel here.
Remove truncation of feed feature after more tag in WordPress 2.1
Posted by Benny Chew in Open Source, RSS, Tips & Tweaks, Web, WordPress on May 13th, 2007
If you have already upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and have the syndication feeds options set to ‘full text’, you might’ve noticed that the RSS feed for your blog post gets truncated after the use of the <!––more––> tag. This is a change in behaviour as compared to previous version of WordPress (2.0 and below) which would show the whole post in an RSS feed if the feed option was set to full text.
Without going into the debate of full vs. partial feeds (I’m on the full feeds side though ;)), there’s a WordPress plugin which does not require any additional configuration apart from just dropping it into your WordPress’s plugins directory and activating it. Get it from here.
Windows XP/2003 Automatic Update restart annoyance
Posted by Benny Chew in Tips & Tweaks, Windows on May 12th, 2007
I got tired of my Windows 2003 automatic installation of security updates (and restart) when they are released, so I decided to go digging around to find a way to stop that. A quick Google search got me this site, whose step 2 did the trick. Here are the steps for my configuration:
- Go to Start->Run, and type ‘gpedit.msc ‘ without the quotes and hit OK.
- Browse down to Local Computer Policy->Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Windows Update.
- The settings which I changed are:
- Enabled ‘Configure Automatic Updates‘ and set it to ’3 – Auto download and notify for install’
- Enabled ‘No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations‘
- Disabled ‘Allow Automatic Updates immediate installation‘
- Enabled ‘Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations‘ and set it to 1440 minutes
Screenshot of my Group Policy Object Editor:
As far as I know, Windows XP does not install updates automatically by default, so that might only be a default for Windows Server 2003 which I’m using. However, I believe the restart prompt is defaulted to 10mins for XP and 2003.
Microsoft Update
Posted by Benny Chew in General Tech on May 12th, 2007
Just posted a short write up about Microsoft Update over here.
