Do Auto Content Generation and Auto Link Exchangers Work?

9-18-07 I am running a test of this new content generation tool over at the site reelspicy.com lets see if it works and appears in google’s ranking under “Fishing”.

The site have never really been visited before. I want to see if I get some Hits, Clicks and maybe a Google ranking. This is mainly a test to see what happens.

9-19-07 Ok It has been 24 hours since I put up the site and there has been no real visitors (not a surprise). I have also done a test with Read the rest of this entry »

So in an effort to release my frustrations I have been dying Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. I run across a it at Target for 13 bucks so i picked it up ran home and installed it in My new Acer Vista laptop. It installed fine then it started up and my gamer juices were flowing. Then I get an error message and GTA closes. WTF! So I try again, same thing… Ugghhhh

I run off to search the message boards and some people claim to have it working on vista. I try their suggestions of running as administrator and in XP mode, but get no where. It has been 3 weeks and I still haven’t got to play my GTA. The issue lies with the pact the Rockstar has not patched their software to work on Vista. i guess i will try to put more effort into fixing it when i have the time.

By Dan Pereda
www.danpereda.com

I know you have heard it before, “Linux will never be main stream because of … (Insert reason)”. And all the fan boys will respond in a nice polite manner to explain how much better Linux is or how IF you had learned to use Linux first, Windows would just seem wired stupid and wrong. Well that is just it.

Windows is not better than Linux for what it does today. It is better than Linux for what it did 20 years ago. What was that you might ask? Windows took a new technology (Computers) that scared most people and made it easy and user friendly. Why were people afraid of computers? They were afraid of change, did not really want to have to learn something new, and most of all they did not want to look stupid. With Windows, the power of a computer was now graphical and any thing was just a click away.

Fast forward to today and Windows is the defacto standard on more than 90% of the worlds computers. Now you are asking the world to change from Windows to Linux. Why would they do that? What do you get from Linux that you don’t get from Windows? For those that don’t remember or were not alive, it took along time for a lot of people to accept computers as something that everyone was going to need or want. It was only after there became a social and economic mandate that you be able to use a computer and then own a computer or your gonna get left in the dust, that computers boomed in to expansion.

I do not see that Linux has much to offer the average user. Not enough to warrant people dedicating time to learn something new, or worse admitting that they don’t know something to begin with. I know some of your arguments:

• Linux is free - Most people never pay for Windows, it’s included in their computer’s purchase price.
• Linux is more secure - Most people don’t care. People think “Security problems are going to happen to me”.
• Linux is more stable – Fine, whatever. Windows XP almost never crashes. And Id rather reboot my PC once a year than learn Linux.
• Linux has a ton of free programs – It doesn’t have the main stream programs that I bought for my PC (Adobe Premier or NASCAR 2008)

What prompted me to write this is that I have several computers in my house all with different operating systems including Debian, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Ubuntu and more. Now that I am getting a little older and I am becoming busier, I just don’t have time to manage all these systems. I need to consolidate and upgrade. I pondered going to a new MAC and scrapping everything else, No my programs that I have won’t work on a MAC and I will not repurchase them just to put them on a MAC. Fine I will go fully Linux, No I can’t even port my graphics/video software to Linux. Well what is wrong with Windows? I already own copies of XP pro and Vista and frankly with my short amount of free time Windows is the easiest way to go.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux. It is great and unbelievably powerful. I use it everyday to run this website and others; it also runs my phone system. I don’t feel that Linux will become main stream until it can offer something that Windows can’t and the world can’t live without.

In summery Linux is still missing the “KILLER APP”.

I know what some of you are thinking and for that, in this article I am only talking about Linux on the desktop. Servers, appliances and other geek only systems don’t count.

By Dan Pereda
www.danpereda.com

I just bought a new Acer Aspire laptop (5610-2273). I t was on sale at best buy for 599.99. I have been looking to build a small form factor pc that I could travel with. I was planning running Linux and do some PVR work with it. Pricing it out I was gonna end up spending 500 bucks. When I cam across this laptop it fit my needs, was easy and would let we try out Vista.

so far I can say I don’t really like vista, the specs on this laptop is the same as my dell laptop running XP and the XP machine seems much better. That is for some other post.

I open my new Vista machine and I installed MSN live messenger. I put in my username and password and I get a message saying that windows has to close messenger due to a DEP error. “Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature that helps prevent damage from viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to make sure they use system memory safely.”

I tried a dozen different things to fix this problem. Then I read to try installing an old version of messenger. I went and found Messenger version 6. Installed that fine then it told me I had to upgrade. I upgraded to 7.0 and messenger finally works now.

UPDATE: I upgraded to Messenger 8 and the DEP error came back again. Acer now has a patch on their website to fix this. I hate Vista. OK all; sorry for the delay I was on vacation in Vegas. Keep an EYE out for those post coming up.

Here is the link to the Bug report on Acer’s web site - Here

Here is the link to download the patch — Here

File transfer with vista is really slow

I have to post something, but I have been so busy that I have not found the time.

What have I been doing since I am not blogging?

I have been using my bit little free time to try and learn Ruby on rails, Ajax on rails and some advanced asterisk and some Linux stuff. I am trying to do all this so I can really make my other site PhoneFuse.com do some cool things. I think some of you tech heads will really like what I gonna give you for free.

Coming Up
I have about 30 drafts of blog posts that I want to finish(I really haven’t started anything but the title). Many of them travel reviews.
I want to add podcasts to this site
I have a great approach to call center management that I want to write down and get out to the world.
and much more…

I will be traveling much of next week, so who knows what I will get done. I will mayby get a couple of the blog posts started.

Drop me a comment of what your really interested in hearing about. Blogarama

I currently own 7 domains and they are spread out across different servers and hosting providers. Some sites are for fun and some sites are new business ideas that I am exploring. I have way to many topics I am trying to cover and fun, business and personal ideas are getting posted on the wrong web sites, or is limiting what I can do with the website. I have consolidated my hosting and servers down to two locations. I have a front end hosting provider for all my sites and a separate back end server to handle some complex functions. Below is an outline of my plans for my sites.

DanPereda.com - This is will be my personal site. It will be my personal Blog and Also a platform for my writing.

Shoreperformance.com - This site will be revamped to become the front face of my business again. Right now the front end is just my blog and the back end runs some major surveys and data recording.

Phonefuse.com - This site will be my test platform to work of some new Asterisk PBX goodies. It will also replace the back end for the Voipfordummies.com site that I currently own, but I am being forced to transfer it to Wiley Press.

Voipfordummies.com - This site is being eliminated and transferred to Wiley Press (the people that own the for dummies trademark)

Pereda.org - I hope to work more on this site and get it to become the family website that I had always meant for it to become.

TheMillionaireSociety.com - This is my Prosper group. I have not had time to really open this site or even start my group.

ReelSpicy.com - This was the name of my boat, but I no longer have the boat. I will come up with something to put here. till then I will just point it to one of my other sites.

Kazaa and Skype founders join forces to create an online video service that was called The Venice Project™. All of a sudden today it is now called Joost.

Read the PC MAG story here

joost.com

You can get on a wait list for a beta test, but if you know someone that is already a beta tester they can invite you to join. kinda like google did with gmail when it started.

Joost screen shots

How to Distribute VoIP Throughout your Home. Click Here

Hello All,
I know I have not posted anything new on this site in a while. I Have been crazy busy at work. I have also taken on a new project.

I am developing an Asterisk PBX. The phone number for the PBX is 1-218-339-8572. Please note that this PBX is running on a VDS, and a Very small slow VDS. so it cant handle more than 2-3 callers at a time.
I hope to add my Asterisk experience to this blog..

Ok, I updated the new Phone number on the PBX and I have started a new site at Phonefuse.com that I hope to offer some cool free features.

CCNA- Cisco Certified network associate

Exam code: 640-801

Or 640-811 CCNA ICND and 640-821 CCNA INTRO

Passing Score is 849/1000

No of question: 53 – 56

Time Duration: 90 Mins

Cost: $150.00

Valid for :3 Years

CCNP- Cisco Certified Network Professional (4 test 60-70 questions)

1) 642-801 BSCI “routing” – Building Scaleable Cisco Inter-networks

2) 642-811 BCMSN “switching” – Building Cisco multi layered switched networks

3) 642-811 Building Cisco Remote access networks

4) 642-821 Cisco inter-network troubleshooting

CCDP- Cisco Certified Design Professional (3 test)

1) 642-801 BSCI “routing” – Building Scaleable Cisco Inter-networks

2) 642-811 BCMSN “switching” – Building Cisco multi layered switched networks

3) 642-871 ARCH “Architecture”

More…

CCSP- Cisco Certified Security Professional (5 test)

1) 642-551 SNDI – Securing Cisco networking devices

2) 642-502 SNRS – Securing networks with routers and switches

3) 642-522 SNPA- Securing Networks with PIX and ASA

4) 642-532 IPS – Implementing Intrusion Protection Systems

5) 643-513 HIPS – Securing Hosts using Cisco security agents
or CSVPN – Cisco secure VPN

CCIP (4 test)

1) BSCI

2) BGP

3) QOS

4) IPV6

CCVP (3 test)

1) QOS

2) IPTT

3) IP telephone

a. Part 1

b. Part 2

Recommend CCNA Books

CCNA 640-801 Study Guide by Todd Lamele (CCNP) published Sybex

CCNA –ICND by Wendell Odem (CCIE) Published by Cisco Press

CCNA –INTRO by Wendell Odem (CCIE) Published by Cisco Press

Course Outline

22 Case studies

1) Hardware

2) Networking

3) TCP/IP - Ip classes and sub netting

4) OSI

5) Routing Logic

6) CLI

7) Routing Protocols
WAN

9) NAT

10) Switching

11) ISDN

12) Booting

13) Access List