uʍop ǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ɹnoʎ dı1ɟ

.ʇnoqɐ ʞuıɥʇ oʇ noʎ ɹoɟ buıɥʇǝɯos ʇsnظ .ɹǝʇʇıʍʇ puɐ 'ʞooqǝɔɐɟ ǝʞı1 sǝʇıs 1ɐıɔos puɐ 'sɯnɹoɟ uı uʍop ǝpısdn ɟɟnʇs ʇsod oʇ 1ooɔ ɟo puıʞ s,ʇı(uʍop ǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ɹnoʎ dı1ɟ) :ǝɹǝɥ 1ooʇ ǝɥʇ puıɟ uɐɔ noʎ.uʍop ǝpısdn ʇı dı1ɟ uǝɥʇ 'ɟɟnʇs ɟo ɥɔunq ɐ ǝdʎʇ noʎ sʇǝ1 ʇɐɥʇ 1ooʇ ǝuı1uo buıʇsǝɹǝʇuı uɐ punoɟ ı .uʍop ǝpısdn ʎ1ǝʇǝ1dɯoɔ sı ʇsod sıɥʇ 'sǝʎ.ʍo1s ǝ1ʇʇı1 ɐ ǝɹɐ noʎ ssǝ1un 'sı ʇɐɥʇ 'ʎ1ʞɔınb ʎɹǝʌ ʇı ɟo ʇsnb ǝɥʇ ʇǝb 11ıʍ noʎ ʞuıɥʇ ı uɐǝɯ ı .buo1 ʎɹǝʌ ǝq oʇ buıob ʇ,usı ʇsod sıɥʇTechnorati Tags: flip, text, upside, d...

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The Awesomeness of Mixx and the Nacho Mixx Badge

Well due to some Epic Douche Bags over at Digg and other circumstance that we can not control I have decided never to post on Digg again except maybe another Bauer Power Video or so in the future. But to now focus on Mixx.Both sites have a lot of cool features but a few of the best things I like about Mixx is that they understand the use for scripts and they filter out adult and offensive material including comments, but don't just delete it for those that do want to use it.They also seem to be pretty free about wanting people to use their api and not giving them crap for it. One example of this is the Nacho Mixx Badge. What they did was pull the most popular images from the Mixx API and put them into a sweet little slideshow and give you the embed code to put on your site. And because it's...

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Bauer-Power Episode 6

Yes, finally Sundance and I were able to get back together for another awesome video episode of Bauer-Power! In this episode, Sundance and I decided to do the show "Weekend Update" style, and do it in a funny news sort of format. We hope you like it. Comedy is hard to write!We decided to give you all a run down in the past month's top stories, with a tad of geeky humor. In case you have trouble figuring out where the punch lines are, we inserted a cheesy laugh track to help you along ;-)Here is Episode 6 of Bauer-Power!You can check out our previous episodes of Bauer-Power on our Veoh Channel here: (Bauer-Power Veoh Channel)If you don't get Veoh in your country, you can catch the Youtube version here: (Bauer-Power Episode 6 on Youtube)If you...

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Renumber SQL Table ID by Row Position

Have you ever or do you need to renumber the id field in one or more of your SQL tables by their row position in the database? Well I came across needing to do that a few months back. Now I can’t actually remember why I needed to do that but I did and me being the lazy ass I am, I tried Googleing a sample script online instead of just writing my own. I couldn’t find anywhere online for a script that did it. So finally I broke down and just wrote my own and it looked a little something like this…   First you need to set all the ID fields to 1 In this example our ID field is called ItemID. You may have to remove the unique identifier property on this field to do so. UPDATE NewsArticle SET ItemID = 1 Now that, that is done we have the script run though each item at a time so as to put...

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Installing ndiswrapper on CentOS 5.2

I decided that I would give CentOS 5.2 a spin on my Toshiba laptop. For you out there not familiar with it, CentOS is probably the closest enterprise distro like Redhat Linux that is free. Sure there is Fedora, but that is mainly for developers, and not really ready for production. At least, that is according to my Linux admin friend Lance works works with both Redhat and CentOS every day.My only major problem was that CentOS didn't detect my wireless card after install. Drivers are always an issue in the Linux world. After looking around the internet, it seemed to me that my only option was to install a Windows driver using ndiswrapper (This turned out not to be the case for my laptop, but that is for a later post). The only problem was that...

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Solid State HDD Versus a 5400 RPM Drive

My buddy Ceazar sent me an IM a few days ago saying that he was getting ready to install the 64 bit edition of Ubuntu onto a laptop with a solid state disk. He told me that he would let me know how it performs. Then he told me that they were already running Windows XP on solid state and said it was lightning fast!Being someone who really hasn't played with solid state hard drive myself, I had nothing to compare it to, so he sent me this Youtube video comparing a solid state hard drive with an older 5400 RPM drive on laptops running Windows XP. It blew my mind. Check it out! Have you guys messed with solid state drives? How do you like it? Are they worth the hype? Hit me up in the comments!Technorati Tags: solid, state, versus, vs,...

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Fooling Vista Users With KDE 4

My former college professor sent out a tweet on Twitter about a video done by ZDNET Australia about how Windows users probably couldn't tell the difference between Windows 7 and KDE 4 because Windows 7's desktop looks really similar. (Can you say rip off?)Well Chris Duckett, and Alex Serpo decided to take their theory to the streets. Check out this video: [Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?] So basically, what I can gather, and what ZDNET also gathered was that people basically just aren't that keen on Vista. I suppose this just goes to show you that in a blind "taste test" you could easily switch a user over to Linux if you wanted to.Personally after having played with Windows 7, I do think it is a lot better than Vista. Still,  I'm not sure...

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Convert Documents To Speech Online For Free

I happened upon a really cool website the other day and thought I would share it with you guys. It is a really handy tool if you work with someone who is visually impaired, or just can't read too well.It is an online tool that will simply convert text to speech! This tool is available at iSpeech.org. I don't have much of a need for this personally, except it is kind of fun to type up a little note, then stick it in an email so my wife can play it for my four year old daughter. She gets a kick out of the funny robot voice.From their site:iSpeech will quickly convert your text into natural sounding spoken audio. After you convert your text to speech, listen to it with our flash widget, embed it on your website, share it with friends, or download...

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All-In-One Hacking Swiss Army Knife!

My co-worker Mike introduced me to a really awesome live-cd. In fact it might be one of the coolest live cd's I have ever seen. Yes, perhaps even cooler than Bauer-Puntu Linux!How many of you out there have heard of BackTrack Linux? Who hasn't right? What about Samurai Linux? Helix? DVL? DBAN?All are really kick as live CD's in their own right. All of them with their own specific purpose in cyberspace. What if they were all combined into one CD? Great, now I am sounding like a cheesy infomercial.All cheesiness aside, there is a really awesome live cd that contains all of those in one compact piece of awesomeness called Sumo Linux!When you boot up, you get a simple menu where you can pick which tool you want to use. Maybe you have a job where...

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Oh no you didn’t. 11 Reasons why Live Writer is better than ScribeFire

Oh Paul, no you didn’t just try to compile some half assed list of 10 reasons why YOU think ScribeFire is better than WLW! I bet it took you hours upon hours to think of your 10 reasons why you think it's better. Well it’s on. I’ll spare you the embarrassment and just list 11 reasons. Microsoft actually did a good job with their Live Suite, including now with the Movie Maker Live Beta. But to stay on topic lets get to that list. I’ll try to not tear up your post too bad as I’m sure you’ve been getting hell from everyone else about it too. 1. It’s not browser dependent – So you’re not tied to just Firefox. I mean sure a lot of people use Firefox, but not everyone. Actually more people use IE. 2. It’s an actual application – That means it doesn’t...

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Where Can I Find A Windows 7 Download?

As you may know, Microsoft put the kibosh on the downloading of the beta version for their new operating system Windows 7 earlier this week. You can still get a serial for it, but if you haven't downloaded it yet, it doesn't really do you any good does it?Maybe it does! You see, your good buddy El Di Pablo found himself a good quality torrent version of Windows 7 (32 bit version)! I have downloaded it myself and have verified that it is definitely a working version of their beta OS!Download Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7022[Password is B@u3rP0w3r]How many of you out there have tried it already? I am hearing some really good things about it. From what I am hearing Windows 7 is to Vista what Windows XP Home edition was for Windows ME. I am still playing...

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In Your Face Sundance! 10 Reasons Scribefire is Better Than WLW

I see how it is Sundance! You want to throw a big, "In your face" at me, but to that I say... "NO! In YOUR face!" I said before that I actually liked Live Writer, but because of your little outburst, I will now have to just say flat out that Live Writer sucks! (Actually, that isn't true... I am just acting out)I decided to compile a list of the ten reasons why Scribefire is far superior to your pathetic Live Writer. It wasn't hard actually. Mainly because Microsoft Sucks, and it is easy to dig up dirt about just about all of their software! LOL! [Evil Dr. Doom laugh]So here we go, the top ten reasons Scribefire is better than Windows Live Writer:It's not Microsoft - Everyone knows how crappy M$ stuff is. Just look at Vista and Windows ME!Firefox...

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Cool Digg Feature For Wannabe Power Diggers

On Saturday I noticed a pretty cool little feature when I was getting ready to send a shout burst out to my network of power diggers. This little feature is pretty awesome if you don't want to be "that guy" that over shouts on Digg. You know, the annoying guy.This new feature (At least, it is the first time I noticed it) allows you to only shout to those of your friends have still not dugg your article. This way if your good Digg friends have already dugg your story, you can keep drilling down on your list until they have all participated. Check out this screen shot I took:As you can see, from the drop down menu, you can select the option to shout only to those "not dugg". Pretty convenient if you ask me :-)If after a few passes, you start...

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Oh Really - Microsoft Live Writer

So Mr. Bauer here thinks that his Firefox add-in blog editor is so great. Well riddle me this El Di Pablo, is your Scribefire extra bloated and can come bundled with a bunch of extra useless Microsoft products? No it can't!Even with it's faults I still love the MS Live Writer. It's extremely basic to use but has the power to become much more powerful by installing add-ins for it. It also functions a lot like MS Word. Which most everyone knows how to use and can support publishing to multiple preset and even custom blogs. So if you have your own blog format or even just a blog or news section on your site such as with the Umbraco ASP.Net CMS application you can easily set it up to have MS Live Writer connect and publish content to it.Now I know...

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Digsby Goes Down

Sweet bastard! Why, oh why did Digsby have to go down today? For those of you not familiar with Digsby, read my post I wrote a few weeks ago about my new favorite IM client that not only handles all IM networks, but also handles Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc.Well, after being rudely awoken by the east coast at 5:30am because they couldn't access Sharepoint (Seriously! You couldn't work on something else for 30 minutes until the morning Help Desk guy came in?), I took a gander at Twitter and saw a tweet from the folks over at Digsby that they were having server issues. I didn't hink much of it because I wasn't going to be signing on until I got to work anyway.I got in this morning, and they were still down. No big deal right? I'll just wait...

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My New Favorite Blog Editor

So Sundance walks over to my desk while I am troubleshooting a print server in Atlanta Georgia, and tells me to stop what I am doing so he can show me HIS favorite new blog editor. I played with it, and I really did like it, but that one is not my favorite blog editor.No, my new favorite editor is a plugin for Firefox called Scribefire! It is awesome because it plugs right into my browser, which I have open all the time anyway. Not to mention that it is really intuitive, easy to use and most importantly, it allows me to schedule future blog posts!It makes formatting a snap, and allows you to embed videos from Youtube, and pictures from Flickr with just a click of a button.Another thing I like is that you can set it to pop open (Simply by pressing...

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Bauer-Power Gear! Now With More Pimpness!

As you all know I have been selling Bauer-Power schwag through CustomDropshipper.com for quite a while now. My only complaint about them is that their store's are really, really awful looking, and less than professional.There is some good news and bad news about them. The good news is that their store is completely customizable. The bad news is that their website is less than intuitive when it comes to customizing the template.That is no trouble when your good friend is a professional web developer. You all know Sundance right? Well, for his day job Sundance works as a web developer for the same company I work for. I asked him to take a look into the shit storm that is Customdropshipper's template control interface.Within an hour of poking...

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Recovering Forgotten Passwords IV - Recovering PST Passwords

This will be my final recovering passwords post for a while I think. I have milked poor NirSoft long enough. Damn they have cool tools though right?Anyway, in this final post I will tell you about a tool to recover forgotten PST passwords. This tool works on just about all versions of Microsoft Outlook. That is awesome because we have all had that user call and tell us that they forgot the password to the PST file they created three months ago, and now they need a particular email right away or it is career ending!This NirSoft tool is called PstPassword. Here is a description from the site:"PstPassword is a small utility that recover lost password of Outlook .PST (Personal Folders) file. This utility can recover the PST passwords of Outlook...

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Cleaning Up Your Digg Friends

I have been really, really, really active on Digg lately. I haven't been submitting posts from Bauer-Power, but I have been submitting stuff. Various things that I think are cool from around the web. Trying to get stuff to the front page. You know, that old chestnut.I have been fairly successful. Sundance and I have created a small Digg army, and are trying to follow the advice of this once powerful powerdigger: (How I became a Digg Power User...)So far I have a 2% popularity ratio (Kind of pathetic, but better than most) and Sundance has an amazing 25% popularity ratio which is outstanding!Anyway, one of the things we have both been trying to do is to keep our Digg friends list clean. By clean I mean remove the people who aren't helping you....

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Recovering Forgotten Passwords III - Password Capturing

Many of you learned in school, or while studying for exams that TCP/IP was not really built around security. When it was conceived, it was intended to share information freely. Why need security when we are giving everything away for free anyway right? Then came along e-commerce, and other proprietary interests all sharing the same internet. That is when the bad guys came in also right?Most of you already know that there are plenty of unsecured protocols still in use today. The unsecured protocols transfer data in plain text across the wire. Back in the care free days, this wasn't a big deal, but in modern times, just about anyone can snatch that open goodness right off the wire and use that info against you. Yes, even passwords.In the previous...

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Bauer-Power is NOT Dangerous!

This one kind of gave me a laugh. I may have taken it more seriously if I felt it would cost me some traffic, but I am not too worried about it. Mainly because I just about get zero traffic from this particular search engine anyway.I am talking about Yahoo! I had an old Navy buddy shoot me an email. He told me that he did a search for Bauer-Power on Yahoo. Of course, Bauer-Power showed up as one of the top on the list. That was expected. What wasn't expected was the fact that Yahoo thinks Bauer-Power contains dangerous downloads!Check out this screen shot!I think I would be worried about it if I got a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo, but I don't! No, me, like most tech savvy folks do our searches on Google. True, Google had a similar...

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