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The TechNet Plus subscriber download area is revamped !!!
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Not too long ago the TechNet Plus subscriber download area was revamped. I wasn’t terribly fond of the navigation methods used on that revamp so of course I sent some email on various occasions asking for a change. Apparently a lot of you...
What KVM switch are you using?
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over 5 years ago
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I recently upgraded my KVM switch. The number of machines I use on a continual basis had grown beyond two and I really need a better 4 port unit. I ended up buying the IOGEAR GCS-1744 (pictured at right). This particular KVM switch is also...
Searching for Windows Vista x64 Compatible Applications
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
Sales of the 64 bit version of Windows Vista are starting to accelerate. In fact, they’ve more than tripled the past three months. You can get more information on what’s happening at http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-vista/compare-editions...
SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP now available for download
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
In its continued commitment to interoperability, Microsoft has released a new SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP download is available to all SQL Server users at no additional charge. The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP...
My Favorite Windows Vista Runtime Improvements (RTI)
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over 5 years ago
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There’s an acronym from the past for you. Run Time Improvements (RTI). I am always looking for ways to squeeze another speed improvement out of Windows Vista . In fact, a few weeks ago I made some changes to my Dell Latitude D820 and it made a very real...
I’m Running Microsoft Mojave
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
What do you think about this? Interesting to say the least.
Windows Server 2008 management packs now available for download
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
Clive Eastwood at the OpsMgr, SCM and MOM blog is reporting that some new management packs are now available for Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007. I’m looking forward to having the full compliment of Windows Server 2008 roles covered but that...
Windows Essential Business Server - guides now available for download
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over 5 years ago
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A whole bunch of guides were released over the past few days so here’s a nice little list for your download consideration. Windows Essential Business Server Product Overview – get it @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=01a0a2ec...
A Guide to GPO Preferences for Users of PolicyMaker Standard Edition
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
To help prepare Group Policy administrators who are familiar with PolicyMaker Standard Edition to upgrade to Group Policy preferences, this document provides a guide to the differences between Group Policy preferences and PolicyMaker Standard Edition...
Does the mortgage lending industry deserve a bail out?
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over 5 years ago
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I rarely write about subjects that are outside the realm of the computer field, but I thought the current US mortgage lending climate deserved some air time. Should American tax dollars be used to fix the mess the in the US mortgage industry? How...
Good stuff or marketing? See for yourself next week.
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
Wider is better.
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over 5 years ago
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I like Sony’s new tagline for the VAIO FW series laptop that just came out a week or so ago. I read about the machine on the grid then accidentally stumbled into it at the laptop section of Fry’s here in Texas. This is one sexy laptop and...
Windows PowerShell – excellent screencast now available
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
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Jeff Alexander is perfecting the art of screencasting and his latest adventure with Windows PowerShell is certainly well worth watching. He stole my intro but it’s all good matey. I think in return he needs to tell us where he snagged that...
Hitachi 320GB 7200rpm 2.5” laptop drive received
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over 5 years ago
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It’s always Christmas around here. I ordered and received one of the new Hitachi Travelstar 320GB 2.5” laptop drives and I am in the process of filling it. It’s scary how fast that can actually happen these days. This particular drive...
New Fad, Vertical USB Ports
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over 5 years ago
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It’s pretty apparent to me the design engineers for some of the coming laptops have never used a USB cell phone data card. I see a number of new machines coming out and they’ve decided to turn the USB ports so that they are no longer horizontal...
Xbox 360 and Netflix Team Up
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over 5 years ago
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Los Angeles—An exciting new home theater experience is coming to living rooms this holiday season. At E3, Microsoft and Netflix , the world's largest online movie rental service, today unveiled an exclusive partnership to offer the ability to instantly...
Sticking it to The Man
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over 5 years ago
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I’ve seen some horror stories this week. Not surprisingly, they were about the iPhone buying process or more accurately, trying to move an account from a telephone company to at&t and the iPhone. Wanna guess which phone company telephone number can...
Congratulations to Apple and at&t !!!
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over 5 years ago
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Regardless of the hiccups today on activation of the Apple iPhone 3G, you have to hand it to Apple and at&t on what appears to be a pretty decent product launch. I mean after all, how many people played “sick” or “hookie” today in order to stand...
Pity OS X doesn’t like 8GB of memory in my MacBook Pro
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over 5 years ago
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I received a flurry of questions via email when I posted information the other day that I had 8GB of memory in my Apple MacBook Pro . At the time of my post, I had only intended to boot the OS and see that it appeared to work correctly, recognize...
ISA Server 2006 SP1 now available for download
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
ISA Server 2006 is a great firewall product. As with all of our products, it continues to be improved and SP1 offers up some new goodies as well as a bunch of fixes. Here’s the list of new features: Configuration Change Tracking—Registers...
Pure Microsoft
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over 5 years ago
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I’ve been listening to our customers a lot lately. I get a lot of good feedback here, but it’s no substitute for the direct frank conversations we’ve had at the live events, launch events and conferences like MMS or TechEd. One of the complaints...
Testing My Apple MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM
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over 5 years ago
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Anyone out there have an Apple MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM? No? Don’t tell me you are going to let a Microsoft Windows evangelist totally beat you to the finish line on this one!!! All kidding aside, I decided to pull the two Kingston 4GB SoDIMMs out...
Loading a HP 6910p with 8GB of RAM
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over 5 years ago
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As you probably are already aware, I received a couple of 4GB 200pin DDR2 SoDIMMs from Kingston for testing with my ThinkPad T61p. Almost immediately I received requests to borrow those SoDIMMs so they could be tested with other machines. Phat chance...
Fixing Silverlight for Firefox 3 Users
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
About a week ago I started an internal thread about the incompatibility I was seeing on my Windows XP image with the recently released version of Firefox 3. In short, the Silverlight videos would not play. I did of course check the Silverlight requirements...
Does your Virtual PC 2007 VM seem choppy or sluggish?
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
For those of you that are using Virtual PC 2007, there are lots of performance tip and tricks that come up from time to time that are pretty straightforward. You know, using more than one hard drive, setting the global settings, the easy stuff. One...
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