A hotlink is where someone has embedded an image on their site/page but the image is hosted on another site. in this case mine.

Over the years the number of people leaching the images hosted on the site has grown to the point where it can account for a high percentage of the site’s traffic.

So I have decided to ban this.

I found a great little site that will generate the htaccess code you need.

See Link: http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/userban/

Microsoft employee and blogger Keith Combs has published a blog post with his various tweak and tips for getting the best out of Windows Vista.

Link: Keith Combs Tips

Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.

This campaign is only going to make sense when run in a series.

It’s not with a touch of irony that Jerry’s character on Seinfeld was a Apple Mac user.

Microsoft couldn’t market themselves out of a paper bag but can Jerry save them?

Well after about 700+ days of good service  my Windows XP based Dell Precision 390 was chunking a bit.

The hardware is absolutely fine but Windows was crudded up after being hammered over the last couple of years.

The original hard disk was a 500gb drive that was almost full so I elected to put another 500gb in the system and install Windows on it and boot from it.

Tip: Because my machine can have multiple hard disks connected I can still access the data on the old drive as both are connected.

Tip: For good measure I placed the new windows swap file on the old disk drive . So I now treat the old drive as storage without having to backup and restore 480gb of data.

I also swapped the video card from an ATI one to an  Nvidia one  as I prefer their multi monitor support.

Decisions, Depictions, Decisions

Again I elected to have Windows XP Pro SP3 as my Operating System. I am still knee deep in legacy applications. XP on this machines fly’s. Done Deal.

Office: Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 (again for legacy).

Anti-Virus: Nod32 Business Edition

Observations

I seem to be regressing but this configuration just works well in terms of performance and application compatibility.

I would have no problems replacing the lot with faster machine running Vista and Office 2007 but I just don’t think I would be any better off.

I would prefer Vista for security reasons but that’s about it.

Just an observation really.

I had a conversation with a client who was experiencing problems with their Nvidia based Dell laptop.

It’s quite difficult to explain to clients that it’s  really Nvida that created the problem but clients just see a Dell Logo and blame Dell.

I understand why customers think like this but I guess I am just saying to Dell, this is hurting your brand.

My client is a Director and his company has 80 Dell computers on site. So when he tells me he doesn’t want another Dell Laptop it’s kind of serious.

I did my best to redistribute blame and there are other choices for example a Dell with a ATI or Intel based video subsystem.

The irony is the market leader HP sufferers exactly the same issues with their affected  Nvidia based laptops.

Nvida has a lot explaining to do.