So last night I stumbled across this cool little gadget, its a usb device that can illuminate or flash in different colors all programmed by you either in code or via script’s etc. So you could use it to flash when you got new mails or something similar or imagine if you put this device […]
If you use Microsoft SCOM for system management in your company then this is worth a look, Live maps from SAVision – it’s cool yet slightly expensive.. What it will can do is to allow you to create simple visual representations (Dashboards) of your system, you can even “publish” these dashboards as webpages and “drill-down” […]
The thing with the space key – I am sad to admit I did not know 🙁 so I learned something new today 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paqe3pQIiv0&feature=share&list=UUuw8B6Uv0cMWtV5vbNpeH_A
We all know IP Telephony (voip), there is a bunch of apps out there for both PC and mobile devices that does this (like Skype eg.), well the drawback is that in order to use it the person you wish to call also need to have the same app and have it running to accept […]
You are likely familiar with WordPress, if not well – interesting 😉 anyhow, you may also have heard about the recent attacks on wordpress blogs by a worm like virus/malware? Attacks on WordPress installations is not something new, it has always been there as it’s such a popular platform however time has revealed some not […]
One of the sentences we remember from many sci-fi films and series are “fire phasers”, and along comes a bright laser beam that obliorates the enemy. Well there has been some Military implementations of lasers to planes etc. where attempts have been made to target missiles etc. however none very spectacular or portable. Today however […]
In the good old days you could install SUS on your “home” server and have your own Windows update repository, however after WSUS version “whatnot” the requirements for WSUS has by far outgrown what I wish to allocate on my home/test rig.. Hell I only have 3 machines and a few servers anyhow…. Never the […]
If you are working as a sysadmin and are working with Hyper-V you may be eligible for the Altaro’s great Christmas giveaway of 50 free licenses for Altaro’s Oops!Backup. http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/50-free-pc-backup-licenses-for-all-hyper-v-admins/ All you need to do is to fill out the form (name, email and a screenshot of your Hyper-V manager), you sadly need to use […]
An odd SCCM bug, some of our DP (Distribution Points) recently stopped working, the Task Sequence would hang during the “Installing Updates” step and would never finish.. Now the updates (files/packages) were all there and refreshing them did nothing to resolve the issue – at the end one of our external consultants pointed me to […]