If you ever worked with any kind of support you are likely to know the sittuation, a user has a problem – you implement a fix, ask the user to get back to you if it worked or not… Well he/she NEVER does get back to you, instead you have a case hanging open for weeks till you […]
A friend of mine just joined an online Android course at the University of Meryland, from what he tell me it is actually really good. So I did some peeking and ended up finding a source of online courses; Among the courses I managed to find one of personal interest, it’s in Crypto – sadly […]
Need some inspiration on your Disaster plan at work? Well Dilbert surely has one for you 😉
I have done this myself numerous times in the past, build a PC from scratch or upgraded a PC with new hardware, however for some a PC is still a mystery box that just works. Anyhow, I stumbled across this neat video that take you through the process of building a PC – so if […]
So I was reading about the Intel NUC which is a mini pc that will fit in your palm, I heard it was just released in an i5 version (previously i3) so it is a fairly crafty machine that will easily run Windows and even throw in a virtual machine or two. One drawback though […]
You might be one of those people that have occasionally been using Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, Gimp or some other graphics editor to clean up a picture every now and then – but to be honest how often do you need software like that? Only rarely right, well – I just stumbled across a great online […]
With Windows XP/2003 and earlier you could often just look in C:\windows for installed patches there would be a KBxxxxxxx folder, however life moved on.. Today I had the need to see if a patch was installed and I found this quite useful; http://serverfault.com/questions/263847/how-can-i-query-my-system-via-command-line-to-see-if-a-kb-patch-is-installed I ended up using the command; wmic qfe | find “KB2744129” […]
OMG I am just looking forward to these Google Glasses, I really think this will have a huge impact on our daily life over time.. like Augmented reality etc. Sadly I do fear that V1.0 likely may be a bit buggy and expensive.. http://youtu.be/V6Tsrg_EQMw
I just updated our “Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection” client software, this in turn caused several of my scripts to stop working 🙁 Digging led to the discovery that the PATH has changed :-/ omg why change that… Namely I ran two commands weekly on all our servers; “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\Antimalware\MpCmdRun.exe” -SignatureUpdate -MMPC” “C:\Program Files\Microsoft […]
A good friend of mine (www.silents.dk) gave me a link to a collection of free Microsoft e-books; http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx