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If you have Vista, you need this.
Start ++
If you don’t use this program for anything else, the ability to type sudo <program_name> is probably the coolest thing ever.
Speaking of things you need, if you’re a student, you should check out Channel 8 on MSDN (which is not the same as the familiar Channel 9 or the Discovery Channel). Sign in and prove you’re [...]
Just A Typical Day at Work
So what do you get when you take a laptop bag, throw a backup battery inside, then attach a rotating red light to a bike helmet and wear it?
Portability at it’s finest.
Macintoo (MacBook Pro + Gentoo)
I think it’s about time I make the MacBook much more useful by throwing Gentoo on it. The process of this is somewhat complicated, as there’s a few differences between a Mac and your typical x86/x64 machine. First, let’s get the basics out of the way:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model [...]
Panexa.
Ask your doctor for a reason to take it.
~Jaker
Exchange 2007 Export-Mailbox
When Microsoft introduced Exchange 2007, they took away ExMerge, an amazing program which made it incredibly easy to export a user’s data to a PST file. The initial release had no easy tools to export to PST. It wasn’t until Service Pack 1 that a PowerShell tool, Export-Mailbox, was introduced.
Export-Mailbox works great, as long as [...]
Bundle for the Worse
In a recent post, I mentioned that Apple had a statement in their EULA for their Safari web browser that it could not be run on Windows machines. If you’ve got iTunes, you’ve probably noticed that when it does it’s “New Update Found!” alert every other day, Safari is suddenly in the list, selected by [...]
Txting the Math
An interesting math problem:
Verizon and other cellphone companies mark up the cost of text messages by at least 7314% when compared to their rates for data transfer services.
Verizon’s max text message size is 160 characters. At 7 bits per character, that’s 1120 bits or 140 bytes. Without a text messaging plan, those 140 bytes run [...]
OS X Implementation: Test 1
So we’ll take OS X 10.5.2 and give it some networking tests to crunch on.
Hit up Finder and type in “Directory Utility.” Open it, click on the Services tab, and select Active Directory.
Now switch to the Directory Servers window and add your Active Directory domain controller.
I’m pleasantly surprised. AD support, and it works pretty good [...]
Off by a few hours
So I left work today around 8:45a to come home and sleep. I was OK when I left work, but slowly got more and more tired until when I got home, I was ready to pass out. After calling Amy and fixing one last problem at work, I crawled into bed and fell asleep, catching [...]
Official: It’s still not an April Fool’s
There is nothing more entertaining than staying up late at night and writing about something. Unless, of course, you’re up late at work, rebuilding a server that crashed. That’s entertainment in it’s purist form.
So, what madness ensued? Let’s go back in time (no parallel universes were harmed in the writing of this post) and find [...]