It’s official folks, the HD format wars is over.. Toshiba has dropped the HD-DVD format. Pros: Finally we have one standard Cons: The price war between Sony and Toshiba did a good job of bringing the prices down, then again maybe one standard will call for more hardware suppliers adding BlueRay which again will bring […]
Nice, Microsoft is about to get some healthy competition to their Softgrid software virtualization. VMware just bought Thinstall, for those of you who have no experience with Softgrid / Thininstall the brief description of what is is all about would be something like this; Software virtualization is more or less the same as VMware Server […]
We all experience it, at some time or other we forget an important password :-/ Luckily we also have a tendency of being lazy, and if so there is hope 🙂 Try visiting http://www.nirsoft.net here you will find password recovery software for all your needs (still, only works if you at some time have been […]
If you ever worked with deployment, you know the issue where you need an .MSI file or other driver files but all the vendor is supplying is a SETUP.EXE file. Well many .EXE files can via some obscure parameters /Extract /B or whatever be extracted, but as all vendors use different utilities to create their […]
Just read about an ingenious new technology “ShotSpotter“, imagine a person firing a handgun and automatically within minutes police arrive without anyone calling them.. How it works? Simple, a number of microphones are placed on top of buildings in larger cities, they detect the special sound pattern of gun shots and by triangulation they can […]
For those who can not afford a copy of WinRAR (www.rarlabs.com) to open .rar files a compatible freeware program is available called LZArc (not to be confused with LHarc from the good old Amiga age). It will not win any awards for its simple but useful layout, but hey you cant get everything for nothing. […]
Finally someone got around to writing a useful program to assist in file-copying 🙂 We all know the feeling, we start a ‘drag-and-drop’ file-copy and somewhere along the line an error occur, bad luck if you are using Windows XP (Vista is just a tad better, but still not perfect) you can start from scratch […]
I just had a Sharepoint 2007 issue, if you use Sharepoint to store your documents and then change your file view to “Explorer view” you will get a warning each time you try to open/edit a file stating that it may be unsafe. I seem to have drilled the problem down and found a solution; […]
Christmas and New Year is over, hope you all had a good time. I held Christmas at my big-brothers place with his kids, it was quite down to earth and very enjoyable.. I had to move for a friend the next morning so come December 26 I was quite finished and glad I had a few days off 🙂 New […]
Just finished installing my first Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise server, nice 🙂 Most disturbing is that it will actually go into production right away, we need some of the new group policy management features.. oh well.. Looks quite nice btw.