Chris Hubbard

There are times when the best way to read something is to have it on paper, especially if you want to write comments in the margins and it needs to be portable.  On Windows XP, I have always used Wordpad for print RFCs since it correctly handles the page breaks (control-L) that are embedded in [...]

There is a very convenient button on my keyboard for launching my email client.  However, if I have a remote desktop session running at the same time, the key sequence will get sent to the remote machine which would never have an email client configured and I have to cancel through several dialogs while Outlook [...]

I was watching the MIX09 Day One Keynote by Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie.  There was a demonstration of Expression Web SuperPreview which was very interesting.  This is a product that embeds multiple browsers (either ones that are installed or even externally hosted browsers like Safari on the Mac through web services) simultaneously and lets [...]

Recently, my wife’s computer started locking up when she would remote desktop to it from her laptop (both have Windows XP SP3 installed).  Last night I started diagnosing the problem. 
My first suspect was the video drivers.  Reinstalling the latest ATI Catalyst drivers didn’t help and uninstalling them left the system with only one monitor [...]

As part of my work, I have to run a little utility (dsimporta for those at work) to import some data.  It was really never meant to be used very much so it is just a windows application, but I use it quite often.  I am a keyboard user and over time had optimized my [...]