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Jim Boykin Discusses Link Building at SES London

February 26th, 2010 admin

Here’s an excellent video from the master of Link Building – Jim Boykin (@jimboykin), filmed at SES London 2010.

Jim gives an excellent overview of the risks of buying links for SEO and gives some examples of how to use great content to target worthwhile links.

Link Building – Methods and Risks with Jim Boykin @ SES London 2010 from SEOgroup on Vimeo.

Here’s links to two of the tools mentioned in the video:

www.SpyFu.com

www.keywordspy.com





Monitoringhost.exe process running at 100%

February 25th, 2010 admin

Just found a hyper-v server running at 100% on all 8 cores.  Task manager showed that monitoringhost.exe was the culprit.

Monitoringhost.exe is an agent of System Center Operations Manager 2007 and is used to report back the status of a server.   Stopping and Restarting the OpsMgrHealth Service cleared the problem.   A little more digging found that this is a known problem and there is a patch available from Microsoft to fix this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;954903





Reversed Touchpad on Sony VAIO – FIXED

February 23rd, 2010 admin

This is a really annoying problem and appears to be fairly common to Sony SZ model laptops.

The mouse touchpad can randomly reverse it’s direction, so when you slide your finger left, the pointer goes right.   The same is true of the vertical – slide up and the pointer goes down!   Very frustrating!

Researching this it appears there are several possible causes, some due to faulty drivers and some due to faulty hardware.    Here are some pointers (pardon the pun!) to help fix the problem:

1) Restart the process apoint.exe

  • Open up Windows Task Manager, and terminate apoint.exe
  • Go to c:\Program Files\apoint and then click on apoint.exe  (the icon should look like the touchpad in the taskbar)

2) Disable Wheel Detection

  • Go into Device Manager -> Mice and other Pointing Devices -> Synaptics PS/2 Port Pointing Device
  • Select Properties -> Advanced Settings
  • DISABLE Wheel Detection (set to Detection Disabled)
  • Un-check the Fast Initialization box

 

If the above doesn’t help, you’ve probably got a hardware problem.   If you’re feeling brave, there’s a good walkthrough of how to fix the problem here.

Another good site about the problem can be found here.