Technology Kills The life and times of Ben McClure

27Jan/100

Transition to new domain name

As you have likely noticed, my blog is now running on http://technologykills.com.

Links pointing to the old URL of http://blog.benmcclure.com will still work, but will all forward to the http://technologykills.com homepage. To fix, simply change your links to point to http://technologykills.com instead, and they will work like they did before.

If you notice any quirks or issues with the site running in its new location, let me know and I will work to resolve it immediately.

Thanks for sticking with me during this transition!

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5Oct/090

Is it up or is it down?

I'd like to sincerely apologize if anyone tried to visit my blog, or any other Digital Empire site, and was not able to get to it.

For the past hour or so, I've gotten reports of the site being inaccessible sporadically. I have also seen this myself, as all of my equipment has been down for the past 15 or 20 minutes.

As you can see by this post, the issue seems to be resolved for the moment.

My current service provider is undergoing a management change, and is taking care of some long-standing issues, so hopefully these problems were a result of the firewall finally being set up properly.

My servers already ran great, but it was taking weeks to get any request through. I firmly hope (and expect) to receive better service going forward with the new owners.

15Sep/090

Windows 7 Missing Start Menu Items Fixed!

After installing a small utility which added a Start Menu icon to my Windows 7 RC machine, suddenly my All Programs collection in the Start Menu went blank.

At first i thought the utility had somehow deleted all of my Start Menu items, but that was not the case. Items could still be searched for and launched that way in the start menu, but not browsed for by clicking All Programs.

I found this post over at Greg's Cool Thing of the Day blog which describes a "fix" (moving some of the items into one or more subdirectories) which worked perfectly, and all of my Start Menu items have returned.

Thanks, Greg!

11Sep/090

New PC GameSource Blog Up

I have opened a new site in the DE network--the PC GameSource Blog.

For now, this has replaced the official PC GameSource site, which has been under construction for far too long.

I will post articles (usually at least daily) regarding PC games, mods, game tools, developer news, and more. Already posted are articles regarding Wolfenstein, FOMS 2, and the Aion Open Beta.

Look for many more to come! Don't forget to leave your comments and suggestions on the site, and let me know if you have any issues.

20Oct/080

Site back up again after a couple days

All sites hosted on .desystem.net were down for a couple of days due to a issue when attempting to update Apache/PHP.

This has just been resolved, and all should be back online to stay.

Sorry folks!

17Apr/080

Finally got my new blog up!

Yes, yes; I have finally put something potentially useful on my homepage, which has been a completely useless and crappy 1&1 Blog site for over a year now.

Starting now, I will be posting here about anything and everything.

Stuff about games, computers and technology, my music, writing, , pissed off rages, and more...

Stay tuned!