Big Sales for the Labor Day Weekend

It should come as no surprise that Electronic Arts is having an all out sale on their catalog. If you have picked up a copy of Need for Speed or Monopoly or Battlefield Bad Company, it’s time to dust off the purse strings and spend a few coins. EA isn’t the only company selling off the company 99 cents at a time, there are dozens of sales going on out there. I’ve bought a copy of Burnout and Railroad Story HD, which is supposed to be like Railroads! We’ll see about that! Big List of Labor Day Sales

It’s time to labor for Labor Day!

A year has come and gone, and in the IT world we work on Labor Day. You know, I seem to recall doing this exact same thing last year. How the hell did that happen? Oh well, at least I had a three day weekend before we got to this point. And let’s not forget, the rest of the office is at home with family and friends, cooking and cleaning, having a good time. So you know what that means right? No adult supervision! First order of business, what’s on sale for the iPad?

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware PRO Lifetime License – $14.97 40% Off

You can get the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware PRO Lifetime License for a mere $14.97 today. This will keep spyware and malware at bay. The Pro version includes scheduled updates and real-time scanning. Definitely worth the meager $15. I have MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware running on different machines. Couple that with my Norton Internet Security 2012 subscription and I’m pretty protected. This is a really good deal, so don’t miss out. Get to it! Malwarebytes Anti-Malware PRO Lifetime License

How to configure a Web Server within VirtualBox

The point of the project was this, create a web server using VirtualBox and host it on a Windows 7 64-bit platform. And why would I do something odd? Well, I need a copy of Windows 2003 Server Web Edition running on a new platform since the physical PC it was running on literally tore itself to pieces. The drives failed and the cost of buying EIDE drives is just a waste of money. So why not just upgrade? Well, I will in the future, but I was actually using that machine. I’m familiar with 2003 and had everything dialed in the way I like it. And why host it in Windows 7? That’s the host OS of my most powerful machine, a 6-core machine with 16GB of ram. No sense in rebuilding everything when Windows 2003 Server isn’t multicore aware and only accesses 4GB of ram. But anyway, the OS and the host are sort of irrelevant, it’s the […]