Author Archives: Jeremy Clark

About Jeremy Clark

Small town IT worker with interests in all things technological and technical. Biggest interests are in web development especially the WordPress publishing platform and the community supporting it. Currently developing and maintain the free WordPress theme Techozoic. I'm also always available for hire.

Cut Vista down to size

A nice little free utility came to my attention recently, called vLite. Although I have virtually no experience with Vista nor do I want any, this little tool seems to cut out some of the excess that Microsoft insists on installing by default. Taking the installation down from the standard 15 GB, to just 1.4 GB. It can also integrate hot fixes and other patches, then make the whole thing into a burnable ISO. Continue reading

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I’ve Moved Sites

Well not really moved just shortened my url. If you spot any problems with the site please feel free to leave a comment or contact me in my forums. I’ll be doing alot of testing making sure the transition went smoothly. Currently I have the old website redirecting directly here. Continue reading

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Scamers Get Scammed

I think this is hilarious. A group of scammers called Mr Brain provide different phising, scamming tools to would be scammers. The reason the groups scripts are so popular are their ease of implementation, some can be done in as … Continue reading

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Sun Acquires MySQL

Sun Microsystems will be buying the open source database software MySQL for 1 billion dollars. While being an open source company and giving it’s software away MySQL offers paid support to customers, and one of those customers is Google. So the 1 billion dollar price tag seems pretty fair. Here’s the official news from Sun. Continue reading

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I’m Offically a Dad

My son was born on Janurary 2, 2008 weighing 7 lbs 8 oz, 20 inches long. Named Jacob. Got to be the greatest feeling in the world. Continue reading

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