About Author: Joshuad

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http://www.draketech.net
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I'm an avid gamer and technology enthusiast with a lot of passion for programming and design. I've been creating websites for over a decade, and administrating them for almost as long. As far as gaming is concerned, my parents bought me an original NES when I was 3 back in '88, and haven't been able to get me off since. Hope that details a little bit about me, and rationalizes my irrational passion for my hobbies.

Posts by Joshuad

  • The latest in the growing number of websites owned by Drake Technologies, and an exciting one to boot! Powered by IP.Boards 3.1.4, we are anticipating a community dedicated to L4D3, a game that hasn’t even been announced yet. There are many topics we plan to facilitate, including the first two Left 4 Dead games, as well as gaming in general. Many features will be added, and we will be sure to announce all of them in due time. It’s already available to join and post even though we technically haven’t officially launched it yet, so for all of you L4D fans, check it out as it is the first forum available to discuss the next installment of the highly enjoyed gaming franchise. Stay tuned for updates! Left4Dead3Forums.com – A L4D3 Community

    New Forum: Left4Dead3Forums.com!

    Posted on March 14, 2011 | No Comments
    The latest in the growing number of websites owned by Drake Technologies, and an exciting one to boot! Powered by IP.Boards 3.1.4, we are anticipating a community dedicated to L4D3, a game that hasn’t even been announced yet. There are many topics we plan to facilitate, including the first two Left 4 Dead games, as well as gaming in general. Many features will be added, and we will be sure to announce all of them in due time. It’s already available to join and post even though we technically haven’t officially launched it yet, so for all of you L4D fans, check it out as it is the first forum available to discuss the next installment of the highly enjoyed gaming franchise. Stay tuned for updates! Left4Dead3Forums.com – A L4D3 Community

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  • Webmaster Ethics And the Importance of Global Image About This isn’t going to be the longest article I’ve ever written, but to me it is by far the most important. It is all about ethics, one of the things that I’ve actually been complimented on by web employers when I was much younger and filling several moderator roles. I’d like to take all of you on a metaphorical journey to show you how you look on your own website, how you look when you are interacting with a website that considers you a friend, and how you look on strange websites. I intend to show you how your actions can bring consequence, and how to properly interact with the world online to gain respect and even loyalty. As always, to introduce myself, I’m a veteran webmaster as well as entrepreneur. I enjoy the most the community aspect the internet has...

    Webmaster Ethics

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    Webmaster Ethics And the Importance of Global Image About This isn’t going to be the longest article I’ve ever written, but to me it is by far the most important. It is all about ethics, one of the things that I’ve actually been complimented on by web employers when I was much younger and filling several moderator roles. I’d like to take all of you on a metaphorical journey to show you how you look on your own website, how you look when you are interacting with a website that considers you a friend, and how you look on strange websites. I intend to show you how your actions can bring consequence, and how to properly interact with the world online to gain respect and even loyalty. As always, to introduce myself, I’m a veteran webmaster as well as entrepreneur. I enjoy the most the community aspect the internet has...

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  • About Welcome to another article written in effort to right the typical wrongs of new webmasters as well as blog/forum administrators. In this slight introduction, I’m a long time webmaster with nearly 13 years of experience under my belt, working with several top notch websites along the way. I’m in no sense an expert because I believe that in everything there is always room for improvement within yourself as well as new things to learn, but hopefully my own endeavors can help others in being successful in their projects. As always, I’ve split this article into several sections to define several of the problems that I’ve seen new webmasters make, as well as mistakes that I’ve made in the distant and recent past. Keep in mind that these are my personal opinions, but I would consider all scenarios mentioned something to pay attention to. A lot of these scenarios are...

    The Power of Perception – 10 Commonly Made Mistakes

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    About Welcome to another article written in effort to right the typical wrongs of new webmasters as well as blog/forum administrators. In this slight introduction, I’m a long time webmaster with nearly 13 years of experience under my belt, working with several top notch websites along the way. I’m in no sense an expert because I believe that in everything there is always room for improvement within yourself as well as new things to learn, but hopefully my own endeavors can help others in being successful in their projects. As always, I’ve split this article into several sections to define several of the problems that I’ve seen new webmasters make, as well as mistakes that I’ve made in the distant and recent past. Keep in mind that these are my personal opinions, but I would consider all scenarios mentioned something to pay attention to. A lot of these scenarios are...

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  • About This article is dedicated to newer and inexperienced webmasters but should be considered as a good read to experienced administrators alike. This article is written for Drake Technologies and The Admin Zone exclusively, but if you would like to use this for your website, be sure to leave a source link. This article will be broken down into several sections and I will attempt to organize them chronologically in the order of items you should put into consideration first on the planning stages of developing your website. This is written by Joshua Drake, a freelance developer and web enthusiast with over a decade of experiences building, buying, selling, and flipping web sites. Section 1 – Defining Your Niche niche   [nich] noun, adjective, verb, niched, nich·ing. –noun 2. a place or position suitable or appropriate for a person or thing: to find one’s niche in the business world. 3. a...

    Successfully Planning a Website

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    About This article is dedicated to newer and inexperienced webmasters but should be considered as a good read to experienced administrators alike. This article is written for Drake Technologies and The Admin Zone exclusively, but if you would like to use this for your website, be sure to leave a source link. This article will be broken down into several sections and I will attempt to organize them chronologically in the order of items you should put into consideration first on the planning stages of developing your website. This is written by Joshua Drake, a freelance developer and web enthusiast with over a decade of experiences building, buying, selling, and flipping web sites. Section 1 – Defining Your Niche niche   [nich] noun, adjective, verb, niched, nich·ing. –noun 2. a place or position suitable or appropriate for a person or thing: to find one’s niche in the business world. 3. a...

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  • Memory Support: Question: I have 4GB of memory installed on my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, but it doesn’t show up. When I install my copy of Windows XP 64-bit, it works fine. What gives? Answer: For the x86 versions of Windows 7, they claim to support 4GB. In reality, the operating system can only access approximately 3.1GB even when a full 4GB is installed. This is due to how 32-bit operating systems handle memory access. If you were to install the x64 version of the same operating system, your machine will have access to the full 4GB. This information is primarily true for desktop computers. On laptops, you also have to take into account that the majority of notebook and netbook laptops use “shared” memory between system memory and video memory. Upgrading: Question: I bought this PC a few years ago, and it is currently running Windows Vista Home Premium. I bought an upgrade copy of Windows 7...

    Windows 7 FAQ

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    Memory Support: Question: I have 4GB of memory installed on my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, but it doesn’t show up. When I install my copy of Windows XP 64-bit, it works fine. What gives? Answer: For the x86 versions of Windows 7, they claim to support 4GB. In reality, the operating system can only access approximately 3.1GB even when a full 4GB is installed. This is due to how 32-bit operating systems handle memory access. If you were to install the x64 version of the same operating system, your machine will have access to the full 4GB. This information is primarily true for desktop computers. On laptops, you also have to take into account that the majority of notebook and netbook laptops use “shared” memory between system memory and video memory. Upgrading: Question: I bought this PC a few years ago, and it is currently running Windows Vista Home Premium. I bought an upgrade copy of Windows 7...

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  • The future of desktop hardware seems to be focusing around GPU computing.  Large software suites including several Adobe products, Browsers such as Internet Explorer 9, and even medical imaging software are all being written and optimized to graphics processors as opposed to the classic ideal of a central processing unit or CPU.  By the sounds of things, this isn’t completely changing everything, but will severely lighten the load on your CPU. From the article I’ve been reading over, the performance boost is an equivalent of driving a 4 cylinder automobile and then jumping to a jet engine.  I can’t help but be slightly skeptical, considering some of the marketing hype I’ve seen in previous years.  I was at one of the unveiling conferences that AMD demonstrated their new 64-bit processors several years ago, boasting that the processors would demonstrate a 30% increase in performance versus their 32-bit predecessors.  The upgrade is minimal at...

    GPU Computing

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    The future of desktop hardware seems to be focusing around GPU computing.  Large software suites including several Adobe products, Browsers such as Internet Explorer 9, and even medical imaging software are all being written and optimized to graphics processors as opposed to the classic ideal of a central processing unit or CPU.  By the sounds of things, this isn’t completely changing everything, but will severely lighten the load on your CPU. From the article I’ve been reading over, the performance boost is an equivalent of driving a 4 cylinder automobile and then jumping to a jet engine.  I can’t help but be slightly skeptical, considering some of the marketing hype I’ve seen in previous years.  I was at one of the unveiling conferences that AMD demonstrated their new 64-bit processors several years ago, boasting that the processors would demonstrate a 30% increase in performance versus their 32-bit predecessors.  The upgrade is minimal at...

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  • The Wireless Takeover of the 21st Century Just seeing who’s paying attention.  Not too long ago the hype was all about the GB wired LAN connection, the fact that cell phones were able to take pictures as good a quality as a cheap digital camera, the XBox Live network or the PSN where you could finally play console games online, or even the Snuggie ‘thing’ which is nothing more than a backwards bathrobe. Not to distract myself from the topic at hand, but I couldn’t resist finding a picture of a Snuggie while I e-bash it.  Allow me to carry on.  Wireless has been around almost as long as the personal computer in the form of RF.  It didn’t really get it’s jump into networking, however, until the inception of 802.11b.  From past experiences, I was lucky to maintain a 10mb connection to my LAN, and as far as internet...

    The Wireless Takeover

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    The Wireless Takeover of the 21st Century Just seeing who’s paying attention.  Not too long ago the hype was all about the GB wired LAN connection, the fact that cell phones were able to take pictures as good a quality as a cheap digital camera, the XBox Live network or the PSN where you could finally play console games online, or even the Snuggie ‘thing’ which is nothing more than a backwards bathrobe. Not to distract myself from the topic at hand, but I couldn’t resist finding a picture of a Snuggie while I e-bash it.  Allow me to carry on.  Wireless has been around almost as long as the personal computer in the form of RF.  It didn’t really get it’s jump into networking, however, until the inception of 802.11b.  From past experiences, I was lucky to maintain a 10mb connection to my LAN, and as far as internet...

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  • Last month unveiled a beautiful thing at E3, the XBOX360 Slim.  I’m posting information from engadget.com (and will include a pingback at the end of all of this).  Everything about this is looking good, from the quite DVD drive (as opposed to the original 360), the sleek design, the spacious hard drive bundled with it (250GB!) to the integrated WiFi (what I was really waiting for).  Some personal notes that I’ve been laughing at myself since I’ve heard of this release (and a real kick to the nuts of PS3 enthusiasts), is the fact that while the PS3 reduced in features, the XBOX grew in an amazing way. Here’s some quick notes from Engadget.  The link to the full article is linked below:   Other quick notes: Although it’s not quite as hot as the original, the new Xbox 360 still generates a fair amount of heat, which is vented...

    XBox 360 Slim

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    Last month unveiled a beautiful thing at E3, the XBOX360 Slim.  I’m posting information from engadget.com (and will include a pingback at the end of all of this).  Everything about this is looking good, from the quite DVD drive (as opposed to the original 360), the sleek design, the spacious hard drive bundled with it (250GB!) to the integrated WiFi (what I was really waiting for).  Some personal notes that I’ve been laughing at myself since I’ve heard of this release (and a real kick to the nuts of PS3 enthusiasts), is the fact that while the PS3 reduced in features, the XBOX grew in an amazing way. Here’s some quick notes from Engadget.  The link to the full article is linked below:   Other quick notes: Although it’s not quite as hot as the original, the new Xbox 360 still generates a fair amount of heat, which is vented...

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  • At E3, Square-Enix unveiled a little bit about the newest conception of the Final Fantasy series.  There really isn’t very much information readily available, but they did have a demo available at the conference.  From what I have gathered, it is looking to be released on the PS3 and the PC, as opposed to all HD capable consoles like the last round was made for.  Also, the battle system looks to be similar to the Final Fantasy XI system, which should be a vast improvement from the one used in Final Fantasy XIII. Here are some screenshots courtesy of IGN:

    Final Fantasy XIV Preview

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | No Comments
    At E3, Square-Enix unveiled a little bit about the newest conception of the Final Fantasy series.  There really isn’t very much information readily available, but they did have a demo available at the conference.  From what I have gathered, it is looking to be released on the PS3 and the PC, as opposed to all HD capable consoles like the last round was made for.  Also, the battle system looks to be similar to the Final Fantasy XI system, which should be a vast improvement from the one used in Final Fantasy XIII. Here are some screenshots courtesy of IGN:

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  • For those like me who absolutely love tanking in MMO’s, and are incredibly excited about the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, my new project will more than likely be a good site for you. I’m currently working with all of the latest information until the game has been released and have compiled enough to get my next project up and running.  With any luck to go with my efforts, it will quickly become an authoritative resource for tanking and healing in The Old Republic.

    DrakeTech’s Latest Project – JediTank.com

    Posted on February 16, 2011 | No Comments
    For those like me who absolutely love tanking in MMO’s, and are incredibly excited about the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, my new project will more than likely be a good site for you. I’m currently working with all of the latest information until the game has been released and have compiled enough to get my next project up and running.  With any luck to go with my efforts, it will quickly become an authoritative resource for tanking and healing in The Old Republic.

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