Because it seems as if I continually revisit these formulas, and have to re-figure them out each time, I’m putting them here for reference. Using the methods: Given a balance of $100,000 with a rate of 4.5% for 360 months (30 years), my payment is? If I’ve made payments for 12 years (144 months), my […]
Author Archives: Jeff
Console2 + Git-Bash = SSH Heaven
For a little taste of SSH goodness on Windows… Edit your Console2 settings [Ctrl-S] and create a new tab. Let’s give it a title: SSH-Example Under Shell, set the following: %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /k c:\path\to\git\bin\dir\bash –login -i -c “ssh USER@example.com” Be sure to update the path to your git\bin dir. And enter your remote’s user name for […]
ActionBar Menu Items Firing Delayed Events
I ran into an issue with my ActionBar menu items not firing their events until after another UI event occurred – such as switching to a different tab. Of course, this didn’t happen for all tabs. I did find that it seemed to consistently occur on the second tab in a set. This post details a workaround […]
Remote Desktop Copy and Paste Not Working
Just wanted to throw this up here so I can find it again… Recently, I ran across an issue where I couldn’t copy and paste from a remote desktop to my own system. After breaking out the google-fu, I ran across this post at TalkTechToMe that helped. Specifically, I found the answer in the comments to […]
Computer Security (Virus and Malware Preventative Maintenance)
As the local computer geek, I often help friends and family clean virus’ and malware from their computer systems. After cleaning 3 systems in one day (it must be computer flu season), I decided to put together these preventative maintenance tips to help users keep their systems from being under the weather. photo by: AJC1
Creating Video Tutorials
I was recently asked by a client to provide some instruction on administering their website. I initially planned to put together some PDFs that would show screenshots of the steps needed for each task. After I thought about it though, I decided to create some screencasts instead. What follows are some tips, methods, and gotchas […]
Revamping the website
As you can probably see, I’ve decided to remodel the website. I usually build sites based on Drupal but this time around I’m going with WordPress. It’s been a while since I looked at WP – it was back in the version 2.x days – but it has definitely improved. I see a lot of […]