A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
In Windows XP, there was a folder in which you could place desktop icons, and these icons would be available to every user on that computer. At first, it’s not obvious where the equivalent functionality lies in Windows 7. But, I found it, and I thought I would share my knowledge. Window XP: Use Windows […]
Today, I needed the Dell Service Tag from a desktop. The Dell website tells me how to physically find this tag. That’s great, except I was not sitting in front of the desktop in question — I was miles away and remoted into it. Plus, what happens if the tag is physically disfigured? This post […]
The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability has had widespread ramifications, not the least of which is its hit against the virtualization infrastructure many companies implement with VMware. This article explains how to confirm that your VMware hosts and vCenter server are not affected (or affected, as the case may be). Let’s start with the ESXi host. Enable […]
Today, I received my new LED monitor. It was supposed to come with a VGA interface and an HDMI interface. Well, that wasn’t exactly accurate. It came with two micro HDMI interfaces — one labelled DVI and the other labelled VGA. Looking at the thinness of the monitor, I could tell why the design team […]
So, we have this large monitor that we call a television. It hardly gets used and I was hoping to change that by making it more capable. I wanted to be able to display my laptop screen on the television, so I purchased the Google ChromeCast. The price point of $35 was reasonable. To get […]
I use an Apple MacBook Air as my primary desktop. With it comes a host of included applications, including the Calendar app. Using Calendar, you can link any Exchange server to it, link your gmail account to it, and also link the Apple Mail app. I have all these, and use the different colors available […]
Now, you can use your credit card points to shop on www.amazon.com. This is a convenient way to clear points from a credit card, especially if you plan to close the card. The points value vary, so here’s the table: 100 Amazon Reward Points = $1 100 Chase Ultimate Reward Points = $1 1000 Amex […]
Today, I needed to reboot a Windows Terminal Server, but there were users still attached. Before rebooting, I wanted to give them an opportunity to save their work. Also, I wanted to let them know that the server would be back up very shortly, within 10 minutes. So, I wondered, what is the best way […]
So, I have been sniffing at the new black tower that is the Apple Mac Pro. One frustration I had about the online Apple specifications was the lack of CPU model number (e.g. Intel’s identification) in Apple’s write-up. If anyone else had this complaint, here is the matrix of equivalents: 3.7 GHx quad-core with 10MB […]
I was attempting to uninstall Exchange 2003, which is the last step needed after installing a new version of Exchange and migrating existing users to the new email server. I call this last step “decommissioning the old Exchange server”. Anyway, before you can uninstall Exchange 2003, you must delete all the data including the public […]