HP LaserJet is the longest-lived product line in computer printers.

I was looking for monitors and got into the whole color thing. Here's my summary of findings.

I'm reading an Avaya (Lucent) manual about Avaya and Duvoice DV2000 integration. Being a phone novice, I don't really grasp how these technologies integrated. I assumed there was some kind of computer network between the voicemail and pbx.

That assumption was totally wrong.

There are so many versions of Windows out there - not only XP, Vista, and 7; not only Home and Pro, Ultimate or Basic or whatever; but also the Corporate, OEM, and Retail; and for each of those, a different media, different manufacturers, and even different vintages. So, suppose you, like I, found a junked computer and revived it, but reinstalled from your own copy of XP Home. During registration, the CD Key on the sticker on the case will not work. The media you have, and the media the computer came with are not the same.

Despite this, you have a legit XP Home license. (I have four of them, collected from junked computers.) You have the computer, and the motherboard. You could call Microsoft... but they may not activate you. If it hasn't happened yet, they will eventually refuse to activate Windows XP.

Enter the hack. While some people like to call MS, some would rather just find a quick, reliable technical solution. That solution is called AntiWPA; to find it, search for it.

As all Linux users know, it's easy to install software on Linux, because most of it is done via a package manager. For non-Linux users, this is akin to the iPhone App Store, except it's free. You select your software, and it will be installed.

It's like magic, because any related software is also installed.

Lately, I've noticed a new trend in my behavior for the past two years. I install and remove software from my Linux systems all the time. Sometimes, I'll even remove programs that I use occasionally, simply to "keep the system a little cleaner." Really, it's just to get rid of icons from the Applications menu.

I got a message to run modprobe vboxdrv, but didn't seem to have the vboxdrv driver.

Until I started doing more video work, I ran under the assumption that DVDs were a good way to transfer video. DVD should use only three encodings: MPEG2 for video, and AC3 or MP3 for audio.

I've been learning that people don't know about this event in American history. It was a significant event, and it's easy to study thanks to extensive documentation and tireless efforts of activists to uncover the information. Links after the jump.

This script below will accept a URL parameter, download the HTML, convert it to a .mobi file with kindlegen, and copy the file onto your Kindle.

I was having lots of problems with HTML email layouts. After doing some research, I came up with a method to get almost pixel-perfect positioning and sizing. It's not that hard.

Wrote a review in July 2009. Now I barely use the thing, so I ended up taking it apart. It turned out that people were hacking a similar device, used for video games, for a while. It has a Sunplus SoC on it.

This is a short list of Intel motherboards. Intels are usually regarded as the most stable mobos, but lately stability has declined somewhat, according to reviewers at NewEgg. You need to match the memory to the board to achieve stability. Look up lists of compatible, tested RAM.

Sometimes you need to move your old website off of a CMS, or at least archive it, and the only way is to use WGET to mirror the website. Wget downloads entire websites, turning dynamic sites into static sites. The following command would download the site http://www.theoldsite.net/mypath/index.html:

wget -H -Dimghost.com,theoldsite.net '--restrict-file-name=windows' -A gif,jpg,html,tcl -np --convert-links --html-extension -rx http://www.theoldsite.net/mypath/index.html

The power socket broke due to age, being bumped around, and so forth. To inspect it, I took the computer apart, storing the screws in a little plastic bag.