http://www.redpepr.com Getting Real with IT and Putting the Fun Back in Computing Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:49:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the Red Pepr HTML Tutorial. This is going to be a little different from many tutorials on the subject that you've probably seen out there in the wild. What I'm going to do with this tutorial is cut through the fluff and just present the information you need. ... http://www.redpepr.com/html-tutorial-welcome/ The awesome folks over at Mozilla have released an update to Thunderbird (2.0.0.18 as of this writing,) and my copy detected and offered to install it as Mozilla software typically will.  But the update failed, and I wound up in a nasty do-over loop as it tried repeatedly to install. Long ... http://www.redpepr.com/thunderbird-update-fails/ There may be many reasons for Windows Vista to down-shift its Video Mode from Aero to Basic.  In all instances, something is going wrong with the way an application is accessing the display functions within Windows.  But what?  That can be the really daunting question. For me, the problem surfaced when ... http://www.redpepr.com/vista-video-mode-drops-from-aero-to-basic/ Scanning a ZDNet Must Read News Alert when I came across a sponsored link for a white paper on the effect of Defragging on Antivirus scan times. I'm going to ignore the fact that the whitepaper was ancient.  The copyright was "© 2005 Executive Software International, Inc." and whereas I'm sure ... http://www.redpepr.com/on-antivirus-and-defragging/