Uberfantabuliciously Lazy Windows Maintenance

OMG ANOTHER ADOBE UPDATE

IF I SEE ONE MORE ADOBE OR JAVA UPDATE, I'M GOING TO START TYPING WITH CAPSLOCK ON ALL THE TIME!!!!ELEVENTYONE!!!111!!

Ok, maybe not.

So, have you been driven mad with updates?

Does it take far too much time/energy out of your life?

I have the solution for you! *victory theme music*

Adblock ate my website!

So, lots of bloggers out there have been hurt by adblock. What do we do about it? Typically we find ourselves financially starved, frustrated, and eventually we give up.  OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING, HOW CAN I PAY MY HOSTING BILL WAAAH?

Well guess what, I'm not going to give up just quite that easily. *Rocky montage*

Steam key give-a-way #1

At techderp.net, there is going to be a raffle. Whichever of the following has the most followers in 2 weeks, will have 2 lucky users.


Techderp.net google+ page, techderp.net email subscribers,@techderp on twitter, techderp.tumblr.com, or facebook.com/techderp

One winning my favorite 2d game of all time(this will remain a mystery for the moment), and one winning Red Orchestra 1 and 2, both activated on steam, randomly chosen.

Random chosen will be based off of dice generators. No favoritism.

Anti botnet wordpress security practices

So, you got hit by the wordpress attack yesterday. I did, you did. We all did.

Freaked out yet? It was a huge botnet trying to crack your password

Anyone who doesn't know, a botnet is a large number (usually over 100,000) of computers all infected by some form of an attack, that can be remote controlled. The botnet yesterday was around 100,000.

Things you can do to protect yourself against it.

New shop!

So, you may have been wondering why there is a shop button on my site now. It links to http://shop.techderp.net

Why Twitter et al. will continue to fall to Google+

I know this post is not being posted to Twitter, but I couldn't fit it in Twitter's character limits.
STRIIIIKE ONE!

Now that thats out of the way, here is my official reasoning on why Google+  is the master race of all social networks and all that related blasphemy.

2013 State of Hardware Affairs

[caption id="attachment_416" align="alignleft" width="300"] Naw, it's still good for a few more years[/caption]

So, your current computer is pretty old?

Are historical museums calling your phone off the hook? (Do phones still have hooks?)

DO YOU OWN THIS?

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Here is the guide for you, oh soon to be computer upgrading person.

Css Errors

[caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="480"] From Family Guy[/caption]

These are my thoughts on CSS.
For those who don't know, CSS on Wikipedia, or W3 Schools

Making Wordpress Fast, Quickly

So, you decided to take the plunge and made a Wordpress site, then you loaded it up, and were like... holy crap this thing is slow! Y u no wordpress fast? MAKE IT FASTER RIGHT NOW!

Windows 8 isn't bad, you're just using it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WTYet-qf1jo

Watch the video, and read along as you go. This is a commentary on it.

Network from hell

This post might be a bit technical, so if you're boring, don't bother reading it.

Gender Dyscodia: Interactions of gender in the tech field

It's interesting to document the differences of how women and men are treated in the programming society. Guys are "just another programmer", while women are "bleeding edge" (bad pun, I know).

A guy asks for help, and it's like "uhh, you did something wrong with (blarg), should should fix it"

A person who lacks a y chromosome asks for help. "Oh, let me help you! Uh, hi, uhm, you're cute (atleast your screen name is cute), uhm, your code needs a new tri flux capacitor, let me code you a library for one, and change the compiler to accept time travel."

Making it fast with ramdisks

Let's start. I love Ramdisks and Ramdisk Accessories.

So, here we are, on the computer. Lets say, you have a crazy system, i7, fast hard drive (or even for moar speed, SSD), 16 to 64GB of ram, and you're like "how do I make this thing faster"

InMotionHosting: A review for those who don't INTERNETZ

This Wordpress blog is hosted by InMotionHosting, So, when I switched from blogger to word press (I switched back later)(which is why my posts older than this have some derps), I did some investigation. Wordpress.com seemed ok, but the price on damn near everything was way too expensive. Wordpress.org is nice, but you have to host your own page.

I decided to take the learning approach and purchased a shared host. I searched the internets, blog after blog, forum after forum. Some people say some say hostgator, some say bluehost , some say some other random esortic smalltime hosts.

Will not compute

Oh internet I love you

I found this on stack exchange. Someone couldn't figure out why their program wouldn't compile. Can you?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-program-erroneously-rejected-by-three-c-compilers

I didn't know stack exchange had comedians.

What made it even better was this comment below

Virus??

Anyone else have this experience? I've never seen someone complain that they have a virus, while having an actual virus.

More often than not, their "virus" is a broken windows install, or having 5 antivirus programs installed simultaneously.

What is the most common cause of "viruses" for you guys?

Slightly less than epic fan reviews

So, I ordered some fans.

I'll give a quick synopsis of my fans and then explain why nearly all fan data is irrelevant.

Today I discovered: #1

Someone I know who is really good with office, particularly publisher, didn't know how to restart a computer.

This Jane Doe is someone who I actually rather like, but it just confuses me!

That's like learning to gyrocopter before you can walk.

My trip into domain hell

This blog, as you may have noticed, actually has a top level domain now.

http://xkcd.com/1043/

The creation of this blog goes way back beyond the creation of the account, I’ve always wanted to blog, never knew what to name it.