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Archive for June, 2010

.NET… Love your idiosyncracies… not

by @ Monday, June 28th, 2010. Filed under tech

So I am forced to write some more .NET code, worse, some Windows Forms stuff. Couldn’t put me further away from my happy zone. I do have to say that Borland err, CodeGear Builder C++ still blows VS away for simple generation of GUI. If only CodeGear did x64…   So two things that I […]

Saw this as the email signature from a joeware fan…

by @ Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010. Filed under humour

“If you want to know what type a certain bear is, sneak up behind it and kick it. Then, run like crazy and climb up a tree. If the bear climbs the tree and eats you, it’s a black bear. If the bear just pushes the tree over and eats you, it’s a grizzly bear.” […]

IT Lesson of the day…

by @ Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010. Filed under tech

If you are running Internet Explorer 6 SP1, it is probably a good time to upgrade. 🙂 Rating 3.00 out of 5

In the mailbag… Palindrome

by @ Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010. Filed under general

Pretty interesting.     Lost Generation Rating 4.00 out of 5

Cool website

by @ Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010. Filed under tech

http://portableapps.com Rating 3.50 out of 5

So what service is registering my dynamic DNS updates? (non-Domain Controller SRV records)

by @ Saturday, June 19th, 2010. Filed under tech

I’m sure you have had that question before or seen it before. It is a popular question. And of course as everyone knows or at least finds out (possibly after much painful troubleshooting) is that it is the DHCP Client Service that registers your dynamic DNS updates. And when you learn that you say, but […]

The daily rant… Part Deux

by @ Thursday, June 17th, 2010. Filed under rants

+ cscript isn’t defined as the default scripting engine + it requires an admin to change the default scripting engine because it can’t be set at the user context level   Why aren’t servers cscript by default??? This is a quick and easy change when building servers… Either 1. Run cscript //h:cscript or 2. Change […]

The daily rant…

by @ Thursday, June 17th, 2010. Filed under rants

It irks me when companies I need to help out don’t have my tools loaded on their servers… + they lock down internet so I can’t get them… + DSQUERY/GET doesn’t retrieve RootDSE and generally suck next to my utilities… + REPADMIN isn’t loaded either…   Here I am trying to write vbscripts to duplicate […]

Bad Google…

by @ Thursday, June 10th, 2010. Filed under general

Taking my simple white background away… even temporarily isn’t nice… I don’t appear to be alone in that thought. From what I understand, it will be back to normal shortly. joe Rating 3.00 out of 5

Windows 7 Media Center with Analog Tuners? Get these fixes

by @ Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010. Filed under tech

This is from http://bink.nu/news/windows-7-media-center-updates-for-tuner-issues.aspx   Update 1 An update is available for Windows Media Center in Windows 7. This update fixes a deadlock issue that occurs when you use a TV tuner in Windows Media Center. When this issue occurs, you may experience one of the following symptoms: You receive an error message that resembles […]

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