I recently did a google search with the only parameter being show everything from the boshdirect.com domain. To do this, I simply went to google and entered "site:boshdirect.com" as my search term. I noticed that the descriptions for all my Joomla pages were the same thing. I decided to take a look at the setting in the Joomla backend at Site > Global Config > Meta and verified that the description entered there was the exact same thing showing in google.

I've uploaded my Europe pictures to my photo gallery. I had a ton of pictures (somewhere between 300-400) and decided not to upload all of them.  I probably uploaded about half of them though so you'll want to either pick and choose based on thumbnails or have a good amount of time to look at them.

Anyways - here's a link to the gallery: click here to view gallery

The last time I posted this article it got locked in the system - sorry if you tried to access it and couldn't.

Question: I want my primary to be Explorer, but Firefox is

Answer: In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Internet Options > Programs (Tab) > Check the"Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser" checkbox. Click the apply button in the bottom right and close out of the options (Ok your way out). Then close and restart Internet Explorer. When it opens up it will do the check and ask if you want it as your default browser.

I found a great new version of an old tool I'm used to using: PuTTYtray

For those of you who don't know what putty is, it's "a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator." Most of my non-techie friends are probably even more confused now than they were before. The easiest way for me to explain it is it's like DOS (the black screen where you entered commands via text entry) on steroids over the internet. SSH allows me to to do a lot of things - mainly manage webservers (and other Unix / Linux boxes) over the internet.

One of the great features of SSH is something called SSH tunneling. Essentially, it allows you to tunnel all communications from an application (or multiple) through a server. This is great for communicating through firewalls - which allows you to surf sites that might be blocked, get to a mailserver you couldnt normally get to, or many other things.

One of the frustrating things about tunneling is the need to set-up the connection everytime, then having it show up as a big window on your screen and how it takes up space on your taskbar. The version of putty I'm writing about solves the latter issue by allowing you to minimize putty to you tray (along with some other patches).

Enough talk - here's a link to PuTTYtray: Developers Homepage

I'll follow up with another reply post on how to configure PuTTY to automatically connect to a predefined server. The technique involves setting up keys (for authentication) so you don't have to enter a password every time and setting up a quicklink shortcut that loads the connection.