Patch Tuesday is always a little more interesting when Adobe's quarterly updates sync up with Microsoft's monthly updates. Today's particular updates also seem to bring some promising changes that will improve patching in the future. … [Read more...]
Utilize Memcache with your phpBB forum
One of the features introduced in phpBB 3.0.6 (back in November 2009) was the ability for phpBB to utilize other caching modules beyond its own file caching. phpBB is already quite fast for a dynamic web application that pulls its information from a database. If you have a large number of posts and a lot of users, you may be able to get even better performance by utilizing a … [Read more...]
Intel’s odd codenames for their CPUs, motherboards, and other devices
If you follow the latest tech news, you might be curious about the codenames that get thrown out there. Some are known and thematic like Apple's "big cat" names for Mac OS X and Google's dessert names for Android (Ice Cream Sandwich, FroYo, etc.) Intel is another big one that uses a lot of codenames for each of its products or product lines like Nehalem, Ivy Bridge, and Sandy … [Read more...]
Thoroughly disable IPv6 in Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
Back when I had first installed either Vista or Windows 7 at home, I immediately had a network problem. I solved the problem by unchecking the IPv6 protocol in the Local Area Connection adapter. It solved my problem then and the network became stable immediately upon restart. Working on a similar problem, simply unchecking the protocol was not enough. Fortunately, Microsoft … [Read more...]
nVidia Optimus complicates Dell laptops
Yesterday, they called in the big guns and asked me to take a look at a problem involving a Dell Latitude E6420 in an e-port replicator/docking station being unable to use an external monitor as a second display. Serving as a fresh set of eyes for the problem, I didn't get a whole lot more information than a description of the problem and a few red herring symptoms. With a … [Read more...]