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Tips & Tricks on January 27th, 2010 by Kent
I was stuck when I was setting up a Windows server 2003 machine this afternoon. After I loaded pretty everything on the machine, I created another user account named support and disabled local administrator account, and log off. Ooops, did you see anything missing here?
Yes, I forgot to add the support account to the local administrators user…
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Information Technology on January 27th, 2010 by Kent
Here comes more reading for you if you are planning upgrade your VMware infrastructure to vSphere 4 (now with update 1) near in the feature. If you are a VMware administrator, you are highly encouraged to download and check it out.
The guild is currently in public draft, called Rev B, and contains 6 sections…
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Tools on January 22nd, 2010 by Kent
It should work but doesn’t always. Sometimes you just scratch your head wondering why this computer didn’t get update automatically from the WSUS server as you configured. Now, there is a tool set from Microsoft TechNet that makes you troubleshoot the WSUS weirdness a bit easier.
There are 6 tools for 6 purposes in this…
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Information Technology on January 20th, 2010 by Kent
The How-To Geek had a how-to article about this, which looks quite interesting. It may be not new to those who already knew or use Ubuntu but to me, a windows-stubborner, it seems to be appealing.
Reading through the steps made me to think that it’s a lot like Windows 7 native VHD…
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Information Technology on January 19th, 2010 by Kent
I was preparing my development environment on my Windows 7 yesterday. I loaded Visual Studio 2008, enabled IIS, and pointed it to my apps directory. All look good until I converted one app I coded before to application and tested it through my web browser.
Zoom it out to see the detail errors if you can’t read it…
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Fun stuff on January 13th, 2010 by Kent
I am not a fan of auto-response. In fact, I hate to use it for a few reasons, one of which is I am telling spamers that I am real. But this really makes me to use it now, or even more.
Hi – thank you for emailing me.
When your email arrived, I was doing one of the following:
…
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WordPress on January 6th, 2010 by Kent
BlogML is an open format derived from XML used mainly to store and restore the content of a blog. It was originally developed on GotDotNet community and widely supported by many .Net-based blogging tools, such as Community Server, Subtext, and dasBlog. So the chances are, if you want to move your .Net-powered blog to WordPress, BlogML is the best way…
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iPhone on December 31st, 2009 by Kent
I am not a huge fan of these portable keyboard but it’s nice to have it. Hocking up a keyboard to your iPhone wirelessly via Bluetooth should make more convenient for you.
However, it requires you to jailbreak your iPhone first.
The Bluetooth Keyboard Driver, just released in Cydia, fills this void for jailbroken iPhone users. The
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iPhone on December 21st, 2009 by Kent
If you have a website that you constantly access on your iPhone, it would be nice to have a shortcut on the iPhone’s homepage that redirect you to the website. With the new firmware 3.0, you actually can do that, quite easily.
First, click Add button while you are in the webpage that you want to bookmark, which brings up…
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Tools on December 21st, 2009 by Kent
ManagePC is an open source .Net application that makes easy for you to manage your PC in your Windows environment. The tool inventories all aspects of PCs on your domain including:
- hardware
- services
- software
- hot-fixes
- processes
- local users and groups
- group policies
- etc.
What’s nice is…
