The institute of higher learning that I work with has a fleet of vehicles. We haven’t got yet I suppose a Global Positioning System (GPS) to track all the vehicles. When we have trips we sign a paper to log the time start and end and also the distance traveled as recorded in the vehicles [...]

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1, dubbed as Gran Paradiso is out already; not as an official release though. This beta release is intended for testers who would like to try out the new Firefox browser. Beta testers give feed back to the developers of any bugs for corrections prior to final release. I have downloaded the [...]

Running a small business does not allow one to hire a full time person to handle computer data. This is where most small business get into trouble. People take for granted the value of the data they work in until they are smacked dead when their computer goes dead. A solution for such scenario would [...]

Google is one of those companies that never tires in innovating. Lately, I received a notification that Google have added a new feature to their chatting software gtalk. Gtalk allows one to chat with somebody on their mails contact list. The newly announced feature is Group Chat; which will allow one to chat with multiple [...]

Computer business is the main thing why I got hooked up with computers. I was a student then and I could remember being lured into computers as our family runs a computer center. It’s not a big one but one that stores like 15 to 20 desktop computers. There are six employees doing shifts daily [...]

Sometime browsing the net is kind of a monotonous task. To pep up my browsing during the wee hours of the morning, a little of music on the background will help. I tried to experiment with the Firefox browser add-on for playing music called FoxyTunes. It’s very versatile for a small media player browser plug-in. [...]

Holiday is just around the corner and there are things people would like to buy. Computer geeks are not excluded to this kind of craze. I for one have been thinking of getting some computer stuff to pep up my old time arsenals. The list would maybe start with upgrading the web hosting into more [...]

Installing HP Laser Jet 1200 Series PCL is very tricky. One needs a CD with the driver and printer programs to use it. How about if the printer’s CD installer is not available? One way to install a remote HP Laser Jet 1200 Series PCL printer without installation CD is to create a local printer [...]

People get short of cash every now and then. Some things come up out of the blue; emergency expense as we call it. When this happens, one could easily avail of payday loans. I remember before in our small computer business we also fall short of cash. The flow of the money is not just [...]

I have uninstalled Oracle Database Release 10.2.0.1 using the Oracle Universal installer but have noticed that after restarting the computer there is still one service listed OracleDBConsoleorcl. I checked the service properties and found it to be residing in c:oracle folder. I deleted the oracle folder where the executable file reside and restarted the machine. [...]