Binary Fortress Software

Pirating Microsoft Software?

2. July 2008

Not too long ago I purchased a rather expensive MSDN subscription so that I could expand my testing efforts to operating systems other the basic versions of XP and Vista. At first I was very pleased with being able to get all the versions of Vista, XP, 2003 and 2008 for testing. However, I recently [...]

Website Downtime Monitoring

30. June 2008

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For the longest time I haven’t really done any official monitoring of my hosted server. However, over the last few months I have become more and more dependent on my server being available 100% of the time. A little over a month ago I got a tip from Andrew, a buddy of mine, that he [...]

New Website Design and Future Design Plans

23. June 2008

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After using the Vertigo theme for the last 7 months I’ve decided that it’s time to freshen things up a little bit around here. My biggest problem with my previous theme was the poor page navigation. I have too many pages, and listing them all on the right-hand sidebar was getting a bit unwieldy. This [...]

Firefox 3 Default Windows XP Theme

19. June 2008

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For those of you who are still running Windows XP on at least one of their computers (like me) and have upgraded to the latest version of Firefox, you may have noticed how ugly the default theme has become. It has a mix of green, red, yellow and blue buttons and seriously lacks consistency. Yuck! [...]

Math is Hard

7. June 2008

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My wife and I recently purchased a new thermostat for our house, to control our A/C and furnace. It supports both Fahrenheit and Celsius. Well, sort of. When you turn on the A/C it defaults to 79 degrees Fahrenheit. So, I changed the thermostat to use Celsius. Now when we turn on the A/C it [...]

Web Browser Market Share

4. June 2008

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Yesterday on Slashdot I came across an article that claimed “Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month”. It links to a ComputerWorld article that talks about how Firefox has been gaining web browser market share, and how it is poised to pass 20%. I have a real problem with these metrics though, as [...]

F1: All Hope Is Gone

30. May 2008

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I just read an interview on the official F1 website with the Codemasters CEO. Now, I’m a huge F1 fan. I used to love playing the F1 games on PC (before they went Sony Playstation exclusive) and I still love driving the BMW Sauber in rFactor. I desperately want another F1 game for my PC [...]

FuelMyBlog and TSheets

20. May 2008

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FuelMyBlog and TSheets are running an excellent promotion this week that gives you the chance to win an iPod. Basically, the creators of TSheets want to know what you do with the first 5 minutes of your day. Before I divulge that highly confidential information (lol), let me tell you why this caught my eye. [...]