+more+
Latest tweet:

Saw my first movie at Studio Movie Grill. I didn't expect to sit on office chairs.

Last 5 bookmarks:

Reference to Available PowerShell Cmdlets

Microsoft Courier's Swipes, Snips and Scribbles: The Leaked Interface

How to manually clean up a broken Silverlight installation

Disk2vhd
Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).

Everyone Should Be Skeptical About Cloud Service Providers

Last 5 comments: More coming soon...

tips/tricks Category Archives

create a default association for files with no extension

23 June 2006 | asides, tips/tricks, windows | No Comments

one of things that has always irked me about windows is having to select a program everytime i run across a file with no extension. i’ve always wanted to have some default program associated with those files types, but never been able to do it. now there is a way to do it.

Read ‘create a default association for files with no extension’

10 intermediate ways to speed up windows

22 December 2005 | asides, tips/tricks, windows | No Comments

here is one of the better guides to help speed up your windows machine that i’ve run across in some time now. the first step involves turning off certain services, and i would be careful when turning off the ones recommended. chances are you won’t need them, but always double check first. read this guide [...]

Read ‘10 intermediate ways to speed up windows’

windows auto-restart fix

13 November 2005 | asides, tips/tricks, windows | No Comments

one thing that annoys me about windows is it’s auto-restart after a windows update. i would like to decide when to restart my machine, not ms. here is a registry fix to prevent windows from restarting on its own after an update. just download the file, and run it.

Read ‘windows auto-restart fix’

the 5-in-1 network admin’s cable

18 July 2005 | asides, tips/tricks | No Comments

“…after putting together four simple custom adapters, I now have an ethernet cable, a crossover ethernet cable, a modem cable, a null modem cable, and a Cisco console cable all by carrying around just one standard ethernet cable.” click here to find out how to make one of your own.

Read ‘the 5-in-1 network admin’s cable’

linux how-to’s, tutorials, and tips

25 April 2005 | asides, linux, tips/tricks | No Comments

ever wanted to learn linux? here is a collection of linux how-to’s, tutorials and tips/tricks. i’ve always had trouble trying to mount a windows share in linux. i think i got it right one time, but never again. luckily they have a writeup explaning on how to get it done. let’s see if i can [...]

Read ‘linux how-to’s, tutorials, and tips’

firefox help, tips and tricks

24 April 2005 | asides, firefox, tips/tricks | 3 Comments

an excellent site containing a ton of resources on how to customize firefox to your liking. they even have a list of useful firefox extensions, some of which i already use. if you don’t want to manually edit your settings, then check out firetune for firefox. it’s an automated optimizer for firefox.

Read ‘firefox help, tips and tricks’

remotely enable remote desktop

24 April 2005 | asides, tips/tricks, windows server | 1 Comment

An excellent article by Mitch Tulloch on how to remotely enable remote desktop from another computer.

Read ‘remotely enable remote desktop’