A very strange problem with a very strange resolve. So we are deploying a bunch of virtual servers and yesterday I found myself in a heap of trouble, I had a server that I needed to be ready but it kept failing the PXE boot. Normally you would just delete the virtual server and create a new and […]
Just stumbled across a free util for advanced NTFS partition repair that I wanted to share, ít may just come in handy someday 🙂 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/01/25/free-ntfs-partition-repair-data-recovery-software/
So you miss your old 80’s retro gaming device like “Donkey Kong” or what not? Well some crazy people have actually turned these into flash games, so now you can enjoy many of these old dreadful games on your pc 🙂 Nostalgic for sure but damn if I get how we could actually spend hours […]
I have twice seen this issue, you try to log on to a Windows 2003 server remote via RDP and get a black screen with black text – now you can still log on but you can’t read what you write on the logon screen. The issue appear to be rather trivial to resolve, yet […]
So if you are looking into what to do during your vacation then here is a tip for you, you should buy and read; Zero Day by Mark Russinovich Yes you may recognize the name from Sysinternals 🙂 he’s one of those clever guys from the good old sysinternals days. I have not read it […]
I suddenly had the need to have a user send me some detailed info about his Windows 7 PC, and vaguely I recalled some utility that could make this as an export file you could send via email. And sure enough this still exist under Windows 7 🙂 it’s called; msinfo32.exe (yes its the same name […]
Microsoft has released a no-nonsense simple to use, free and downloadable tool – Microsoft Security Scanner – to check and cleanup virus infections (or suspected infections). This tool is not intended as an antivirus, it is intended as a cleanup utility for infected computers or as a tool you can download and do a double-check to confirm you […]
Just found an alternative to www.dropbox.comcalled SugarSync, it offers a free version as with Dropbox and from what I can read with more space to begin with. Comparisons made by various reviewers on the net seem to suggest that Dropbox is slightly easier to get started with, however pricing on SugarSync appear cheaper. Had Dropbox […]
Even more water stories, not only can you power your radio with your shower water (se an earlier post) – now you can charge your phone with water!? Sounds crazy, well maybe but acording to this it’s nothing less than true 🙂 http://techotrack.com/archives/4407
This is clever, I don’t need it and can’t see that I ever will – but it’s still clever.. You may have heard about technologies like JBOD (Just a bunch of disks)which allow you to link a bunch of harddrives you have into one driveletter. The upside is that you can ‘reuse’ those old drives you have lying around […]