My Commentary and Technical help

Is AVG 2012 a virus? I had to remove AVG 2012 from a computer the other day.  First I tried "AddRemove" programs from the contro...

Have you noticed lately that you can but two bottles of medicine and then pour the second bottle into the first with room to spare? I se...

How to quickly and cheaply fix a wet basement. Drill holes in the bottom of the cinder blocks and let the water out. Then fill the blocks ...

I recently had the need to list all posts on a WordPress web site.  After hours of playing around I found a great Plugin called "Get Po...

I have worked with a number of Firewalls over the years, but the Netgear UTM Series Firewalls are not easy to work with.  After several atte...

I have tried two different antennas for Digital TV reception. One cost me only $2 at a yard sale. One was far superior in rejecting interfer...

I have been working on writing a book called "Why Believe in Creation?".  It comes from my notes from teaching on creation about 1...

Recently I had the fun of replacing the Battery in a 2005 Dodge Stratus.  At first I could not find the battery but after following some cab...

I have been featured by Wired Magazine, Hacked Gadgets and now by EE Web.  Check it out: http://www.eeweb.com/spotlight/interview-with-bob-...

Samsung Syncmaster 214T repair for the symptom of a faint and flashing picture. The solution is to replace 5 capacitors in the power suppl...

When I purchased my van it only got about 16 miles per gallon. So I set out to improve on that. First replace the spark plugs. Use platin...

Back in 2009 I replaced TimThumb in the Mimbo WordPress Template with a change in the function that was used to get the thumbnail images. T...

First of all “free energy” is not an oxymoron. There are lots of easily used sources of free energy, like water going over waterfalls, sunl...

This is another one of my crazy inventions. The right side is a Nortel telephone. The left side interfaced with a computers printer port s...

While digging through my junk I came across two things that I made years ago. Can you guess what they are? The first is a IBM PC Turboc...

My Arduino Based 25 million samples per second DSO Oscilloscope project is underway.  Years ago I made several printer port projects that we...

Recently I fixed a Targus Universal Charger. This is the second time I have worked on one of these. If only I could remember what the prob...

SEO had changed a lot over the years. At one time you could just say what your key words were and the search engines then used those words....

Someone recently was given a Vtech Vreader and MobiGlo display console and they wanted to know if the individual parts can be removed and us...

This week the US government stopped all funding for a program that had been promoting Religious Freedom around the world.  On the very same ...

A few years back there was a lot of talk about the Yellowstone Super Volcano possibly becoming active and causing a really huge disaster.  I...

A few years back I developed a Key Word Analyzer (KAT) tool. It is at www.davismission.org/keyword Now I am working on another feat of web...

Once again this is another laptop that has cooling fan or clogged heat-sink problems.  I wish they would make this problem easier to fix!  I...

Recently I was given a Dell Latitude 1501 that was "Virus-ed to death". After reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling Window...

Recently I had the fun of replacing the CMOS Battery in an Asus EEE laptop.  The old battery was a lot smaller than the new one.  I drew a c...

Think about it, have you ever felt like we were this close to the end?  I thought the world would end back in 1975, but as time goes by it s...

Taking on Goliath Introduction My name is Bob Davis, I worked for Elim Bible Institute for about 19 years.  Recently I have been on missiona...

*** UPDATE *** turns out this is a local problem perhaps with our Netgear UTM10 firewall.  Computers connected ahead of the firewall have no...

First look at the Northern Lights prediction note the dark red: Here is a chart that more clearly shows the incoming solar storm: All ...

My van has been having issues starting for a few weeks. Then it left me sit, fortunately at home, but the battery ran down while I was tryi...

Ever discover that you need to change all records in a Wordpress database. Recently I needed to add a "/" to every record, so I u...

The E-Yama 17JN1 monitor is easy to fix. First remove the cover around the power and VGA cables, it has 6 snaps and is a little hard to uns...

I have read some stuff on Occupy Wall Street and I do not see a clear goal, or objective. So Here are some of my suggestions of what needs ...

Today someone asked me for help on setting up their monitor.  I discovered to my dismay that there are now way too many video resolution sta...

The viewsonic VG700 has the usual two capacitors in the inverter problem. However it is tricky to get it apart. First snap out the control...

When they make me head of Internet security , I have three changes that I will make: 1. BAN JAVA and thus eliminate over 90% of all web v...

We stopped using Really Static after upgrading to WordPress 3.  However I have re installed it and it is working with WordPress 3.2 We swi...

Notice below that Wordpress is in four of the top 10 Vulnerabilities that are currently under attack! Note below that there is some sort ...

Monday morning I was greeted with about 80 emails from webmaster to myself. I was excited to see what I had written to myself! Needless to...

They are really going after the TimThumb vulnerability. There were over 80 attempts to hack one site using the vulnerability this month! I...

Recently I set up a web site on GoDaddy.  After using Hostgator and similar cPanel web hosting services, I have to say that GoDaddy is much ...

Why our kids are leaving the church: 1. We tell them Santa is for real 2. We tell them the Easter Bunny is for real 3. We tell them th...

There is another triple inbound Solar Storm!  Just like last month.  Some suspect that this solar storm has something to do with the Califor...