Archive for March, 2010

DVD stopped working in Windows 7?

by: WanderingTechy March 4, 2010

My DVD drive stopped working.  I use a piece of software called AnyDVD by Slysoft which allows me to put my DVD’s onto the hardrive of my media center.  I was blaming this software and tried everything on their website and nothing worked.  I then tried uninstalling it and the DVD drive was still not [...]

Microsoft wants us to be taxed to fix security issues in Windows

by: WanderingTechy March 3, 2010

Well that how the Daily Mail would report it if they did stories on tech. Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney spoke at the RSA security conference.  He compares connecting to the internet with the health care system where general taxation covers things like education programs and quarantine.  Marco at http://stop.zona-m.net/node/109 takes [...]

Tech news today

by: WanderingTechy March 3, 2010

Some interesting articles for your perusal.  I scan many tech news sites and here are just a few of the articles I have read today. Sub $200 tablets arrive,  competition for the iPad? Linux is doing fine on servers How much does google know about you? Don’t press F1 in Windows XP or easy to [...]

Installing Apache, MySQL, PHP, Zend Framework and Eclipse PDT on a Windows 7 Box

by: WanderingTechy March 1, 2010

Introduction Here is the step by step instructions for installing Eclipse PDT, Zend Community Edition, Zend FrameWork and getting it all working. Goal To have a full install of Apache, PHP, MySQL, Eclipse PDT, XDebug and Zend Framework. The software will be installed to the standard place in a windows install (windows 7) and the [...]