Mike's Tech Blog

Microsoft Outlook - How To Create an Email Group, or Distrubition List

Outlook has the ability of letting you group several email addresses. This way you can easily say, send out a weekly newsletter without having to select everyone’s email. Instead you just select the group. In Outlook, these groups are called Distribution Lists.

How To Build a Phasing Harness for Stacking Antennas

Ham Radio - Antennas

Recently at work, I had the opportunity (or need) to make a phasing harness for a two bay antenna. But I had a problem. I found on the web a few years back how to do this for my particular antenna situation, but now the web page was gone! So I had to figure it out on my own. After many hours of looking through my (very poor) notes, I figured it out.

How To Get a Mac to Print To A Network Printer

Networking - Printing

Having recently configured my JetDirect 300X print server on my home network, it was time to get my son's mac to connect to our network printer.

Here is how to set it up:

How To Make a CAT 5 Cable

Networking - Misc.

All too often I need to make a CAT 5 cable. Here is how to make one. First off, there are two standards for CAT5, honestly I see no difference between them other than what color pair is used in what order. I have used EIA/TIA-568A cables in a EIA/TIA-568B wiring system with no problems.

How To Block Bad Bots and Spiders With a robots.txt file

Joomla - Joomla How to

In an earlier post, I talked about how to block bad bots and spiders from searching your website using a .htaccess file. In addition to that method, I am also using a similar technique with the robots.txt file.