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Archive for May, 2007

Happy Mother’s Day

by @ Sunday, May 13th, 2007. Filed under general

Happy Mom’s Day to all the Mom’s out there!     Rating 3.00 out of 5

Basic Initial Server Core Tasks

by @ Saturday, May 12th, 2007. Filed under tech

Along with the requests for how is Server Core less resource intensive, there were requests for more info on how to do various things in Server Core that you tend to do right off when setting it up to test. I will admit I am by far not the expert here, lots of other folks […]

More Server Core Fun Facts…

by @ Saturday, May 12th, 2007. Filed under tech

The response I have gotten from the Server Core posts has been pretty good, tons of emails and a several comments posted directly to the blog. Seems people are very interested; that is very good IMO. Some of the emails were asking questions like “We keep hearing it is so much lighter and uses less resources, can […]

Longhorn Server Core Screen Resolution and Dragging Windows

by @ Saturday, May 12th, 2007. Filed under tech

Just so I don’t forget what I just worked out. To change screen resolution on Longhorn Server Core, modify HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\[GUID]\0000\DefaultSettings.XResolution HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\[GUID]\0000\DefaultSettings.XResolution On VMWare Server I am finding 1162×864 works out well. The value for [GUID] will depend on the installation. It seems under \Video\ there are usually multiple GUIDs listed, the first one enumerated usually […]

Longhorn Server Core

by @ Friday, May 11th, 2007. Filed under tech

Have you heard of this thing? Longhorn Server Core that is? Do you know what it is? Do you care? Yes mom, I know you don’t know and you don’t care, you can skip this posting… 🙂 Longhorn Server Core is a new version of Windows Server that looks something like the following image when […]

Shavlik and Microsoft says I don’t need to patch my Windows Server 2003 RTM Server for the DNS RPC Vulnerability so I am safe…

by @ Thursday, May 10th, 2007. Filed under tech

Ah no. In fact that is absolutely incorrect to the nth decimal place. This has been coming up a lot lately and I have been fielding quite a few questions on it. Plain and simple, if you have a Windows Server 2003 RTM Server and you have not disabled the DNS RPC Management Interface you […]

Interesting comments on IBM Layoff story

by @ Wednesday, May 9th, 2007. Filed under general

The other day I mentioned (http://blog.joeware.net/2007/05/07/868/) how it appears IBM will be laying off 150k or so Global Service folks… There have been a few good comments I have run across to the article This first one made me chuckle but it is so true folks… First they outsourced off the call centre workers and I did […]

DEP busts Windows Explorer…

by @ Wednesday, May 9th, 2007. Filed under humour

 Haha. Too funny. Internet Explorer not trusted… About time. 🙂 I’m a dumbass, I read the image too quickly, it didn’t bust IE, it busted Windows Explorer, totally not as funny.     Rating 3.00 out of 5

WTF WOW

by @ Wednesday, May 9th, 2007. Filed under rants

I use the Wide Open West (WOW) Cable company for my internet. In general I love it. Great speeds, price was great, not so great anymore but ok. Well today something occurred that could get me to switch providers regardless of cost at a moment’s notice, I sent an email to WOW to see what […]

150,000 Layoffs for IBM Global Services…

by @ Monday, May 7th, 2007. Filed under general

Full story here: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html Snippet: Last year I wrote a series of columns on management problems at IBM Global Services, explaining how the executive ranks from CEO Sam Palmisano on down were losing touch with reality, bidding contracts too low to make a profit then mismanaging them in an attempt to make a profit anyway, […]

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