This how to tutorial covers finding your local IP address in windows xp and then setting your local IP static. This is useful when using port forwarding or running a server from your computer when you are behind a router.

Start with the start menu, click on run. In the run box type cmd and hit enter. This will open the windows command prompt window. Type in ipconfig hit return and you will see four lines that list your your IP Address (this is your local IP not your global IP). Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway (the address to your router). To view more information including your DNS address type in ipconfig /all and hit enter. This will return all the information you will need to set your static IP.

The left image displays ipconfig the right displays ipconfig /all

To set your static ip open up your control panel; locate and open network connections. In this window you will see local area connection, right click and open properties. This will open another dialog box. Locate and select to highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click properties.

When internet protocol (TCP/IP) Properties are open select the radio boxes that give you the option to input your own addresses. Run cmd and ipconfig /all like before and copy over the information exactly as it reads. You can set a different local IP by changing the last digits of 192.168.1.100 (your local IP). When you click ok and restart this will remain your local ip. All port forwarding will stay consistent.

Well after the PS3 launch we have all seen the stories of people getting shot, trampled, robbed, and lastly stiffed on the system. Well afterward in an effort to make the buying experience for the PS3 a little better Best Buy has suspended ALL employee purchases on PS3 consoles until after Christmas. This means that the 2 or 3 unit they get a week will all be customer units from now on until after Christmas. That's a hell of a lot better than Gamestop and the likes because employees will be hoarding those units indefinetly, or at least until they stop fetching 3k on eBay.

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Design Code Execute started as a side project on randyapuzzo.com. The first post, swap alt with ctrl, was located on randyapuzzo.com/design_code_execute was digged as a test and google indexed it immediately, literally 6 hours after the site was created. This was super exciting, so exciting that DCE went ahead and purchased designcodeexecute.com and made the switch within a day, re-posted the alt ctrl post and was up 2 days after randyapuzzo.com/design_code_execute/ was up. Now while the switch took place both sites were up at the same time and the ALT CTRL post was exactly the same on both designcodeexecute.com and randyapuzzo.com. As well as the alt post 5 other posts were made the day designcodeexecute went up. One article was dugg and bam! Google had indexed the whole site over night. Designcodeexecute.com was getting nailed on google from people searching swap alt ctrl. This all happened over one day. The next day all traces of both websites designcodeexecute.com and randyapuzzo.com were gone on google! All that was indexed was the homepage and when being searched neither site was found on the radar! This caUsed huge angst and nothing can be done because google's algorithm must have blacklisted both siteS for duplicate content. Right away I took action and removed all traces of design code execute from randyapuzzo.com. We are checking google sitemaps for our pages to be indexed again and so far we've had no luck.

In the past i've had better experiences with both MSN and Yahoo. I've had MSN LIVE nail a site of mine 3 days after going live without being submitted. I've noticed that msn and yahoo always has more pages indexed on all my sites contrasted to the few that google indexes.

Other things that to be noted about Googles algorithm:

• Pages that link to other websites are penalized where the page linked to receives a higher page rank
• There are sites out there that scrap your content and reproduce it on their site to get indexed. Google decides which one is legit and blacklists the other. Algorithms aren't perfect so Google commonly blacklists the wrong site and hurts the page ranking of legit sites

I love Google; this is in no way a hate post. DCE would like algorithms fixed and to be indexed again!

Check if Google has indexed us here

UPDATE. We've been indexed again but are no where to be found when querying

Yahoo Stores can only take you so far. A client of mine uploads images of a product, if that image is too large it destroys the structure of the site. To fix this I would have to manually download all the images, resize them and re-upload them to Yahoo, or use JavaScript.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function resize_images()
{
for (i = 0; i < document.images.length; i++)
{
while ( !document.images[i].complete )
{
break;
}
if ( document.images[i].width > 185 )
{
document.images[i].width = 185;
}
}
}
-->
</script>

It resizes all images. To avoid this one can edit the JavaScript to avoid images with a particular name, and/or use css background and text/image replacement techniques.
Since the script is controlled by the for statement loop, you can avoid resizing some images. Example: for (i = 0; i < document.images.length; i++) i = 0 is the image you start to resize, if this were 1 you would skip the first image. (say your first image was a header and didnt want to resize it) Where you findthe second 185 in the script is the minimum width an image must be for it to be resized. The second 185 controls the new width of your images. The last thing you must do is call the function in the body tag.

<body onLoad="resize_images();" >

This script creates a popping effect, which can be annoying, but ultimately it prevents a broken structure. Say the least it's a great temporary fix. I found javascript like this in Mike Lothar's PHPBB Theme Nosebleed v1.09

Well I have come across some information about how many Wii's each best buy will be getting. For the district near us which is a good size suburban area near a few major cities the average number was around 70 Wii's. The highest I saw a store getting was 140 and more than half the stores were in the 80's as far as a Wii count. The Lowest a store within 50 miles of here was getting was 45 Wii's. These numbers aren't exact for every store but hopefully they can give you an idea of how many your store will get. If its a small best buy bet around 50, and a large store will be well over 100. Now these numbers are what the stores "ordered" to have shipped to them, which means they could possibly end up with more/less. But the end number for launch should be damn close to the average. Most employees do NOT have this information yet.

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This barcode was what I used to look it up. http://www.upcdatabase.com/item.asp?upc=045496880019 . This will scan and if you type in the barcode it can be looked up in any major retailers computer. Rock on...

Living in both the design and computer world forces one to have both a PC and MAC. Commonly I'm back and forth to the pc to the mac and having two keyboards is a pain in the ass. Also shifting from typing on one board to the other get very annoying. One common solution is a KVM switch. This does not require the computers to be networked and will maximize my desk space. KVM's are pretty cheap but os x only runs USB keyboards so its necessary to have a USB to USB KVM. Most are PS2 which is fine PC to PC. After some fishing it comes up that the IOGEAR KVM GCS623U works perfect. You can pick it up at best buy for $70.99 or AMAZON for half the price.

The iogear's KVM was simple to set up, literally just plug in your keyboard and mouse and its switchign between the apple and pc when scroll lock is double tapped. Once installed I entered into hotkey mod (holding down the numlock key and holding the minus key for one second) and changed the double tap switch port key to CTRL. The KVM also supports VGA video and usb audio which is cool but not pratical in my situation. This KVM also saved a USB port since it combines the two peripherals into one USB plug. This is a bonus since there is only 3 ports on an iMac. The IOGEAR KVM GCS623U is an awesome investment if your stuck between Windows Xp and OS X.

A guy named W3bbo discovered a beautiful xp theme that has been hidden in Windows. You need winrar to open the file and extract into “%systemroot%\resources\themes\royale noir” To run the theme, double click on “luna.msstyles” inside the new folder (%systemroot%\resources\themes\royale noir) and select “Noir” from color scheme in the apperences dialog box. You do not need any third party hack or software to run this, Code-signed by Microsoft. Download Royal Noir Theme