MMS 2007
Just back from a week at the 2007 Microsoft Management Summit. Excellent sessions, good people, tons of new products and strong direction forming up from Microsoft. Kinda wild for a first timer like myself. From the […]
Category: Computer
Computer related posts – computer troubleshooting and tech support, software, programming and more…
Lotus Notes Red Screen of Death
Lotus Notes beats SharePoint, email… not so much.
Dork geek
Just spent 15 minutes tracking down a phantom machine on my home DHCP network. I was working on my wifes laptop figuring out why it had lost it’s IP again and wouldn’t renew. I checked my […]
Systems Management Server
Patches and Updates, oh my….
Free Windows software tools – My favs
Want to download some or all of this software all at once? Try Ninite.com Audio/Video VLC Media Player – Cross platform do everything player Songbird – Open Source music player Audacity – Free Audio editor and […]
Internet Explorer 7
I rebuilt my work laptop and instead of installing Firefox or Opera I went with Internet Explorer 7. I installed from a test build I’d made using IEAK 7. The install went smoothly and after a […]
Windows Media Player 11
Don’t upgrade to Windows Media player 11, yet. (01-27-2007) I bypassed my usual Audio app iTunes on a newly built machine in an effort to force me to use Microsoft’s new Windows Media Player 11. I […]
A brief history of Windows PCs
Your computer is what’s often (derogatorily) referred to as a “WinTel” machine on which the software is dominated by Microsoft Windows and the hardware is dominated by Intel. Intel was founded by three unhappy Fairchild Semiconductor […]
Thunderbird to Outlook
I switched from Thunderbird to Oulook 2003 today. Why o why do I always start these projects… What a PITA. oh yeah I’m a geek who loves to playandI get bored with apps and want to […]
Winmail.dat – Microsoft Hell
Issue: Have you ever received a “Winmail.dat” attachment? I have clients who send files like Word or Visio via email but all I get is a “Winmail.dat” file. Argh! This issue is only like ten years […]