New Australian chip design may help to find aliens
January 8, 2008
A new electronic chip being developed at La Trobe University’s Centre for Technology Infusion (CTI). It is hoped that the new chip will be integrated into the world’s largest radio telescope. Read More
Backing up Outlook Express email
January 6, 2008
So a lot of readers would use Outlook Express for their Emails. Ever wondered how to backup these emails in case of a crash? Checkout this post to see how, Read more
How to backup your data
December 27, 2007
Most people with computers would be aware that you need to backup. Only trouble is most people are not sure what and how and how often they should be backing up. read more
Merry Christmas to all
December 24, 2007
To those of you who read the Wizard’s Blog, I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please be safe if you are driving over the break as there are a lot of people on the road.
Oh and please remember the number one rule of computing.
ALWAYS…. read more
The Bubble Video
December 20, 2007
This post is a break from the normal. The video is a light hearted look at the technology industry today. Quite funny, check out the video read more
The basics of using the ping program
December 18, 2007
So some of you may have heard your local technician or your IT administrator at work use the term ‘Ping’. So whats it mean and how can you use it.
Firstly ping is a small program that runs in DOS or a command prompt from Windows or from a command line interface in Linux or Unix.
Ping when used allows you to send a small message to another device on your network, Read more
Basic Networking: The IP Address
December 17, 2007
So what’s this IP address thing that you sometimes here the techy’s talking about.
For the purpose of this tutorial we will look at IP Addresses using IP Version 4 as this is currently the most widely used and IP Version 6 is still not widely used.
An IP address is basically a set of unique numbers that electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other, read more
New theme for The Wizard’s Blog
December 12, 2007
About a week ago I purchased 4 of the great new Revolution Wordpress Themes from Brian Gardner at BrianGardner.com.
Just tonight I have installed the Tech Theme for The Wizard’s Blog. If you are interested the themes can be found here. Read more
