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Virtualization Faceoff Poster free to download

Posted in Stuff in General on December 14th, 2009 by Kent

image Hyper-V or vSphere? For virtualization fans (me included) who are always wondering who’s better, here is a head-to-head unbiased mapping of Microsoft and VMware virtualization solutions offered by WindowsITPro, a free poster for you to download.

It’s a nice poster that provides a single source for IT decision makers and technologists to compare the two leading virtualization solutions providers.…

Email failed to deliver to certain domains with an SMTP protocol error occurred message

Posted in Information Technology on December 13th, 2009 by Kent

It happened lately in my office that emails sent to certain domains first got delayed and then failed with a SMTP error code 4.4.7 in the final NDR. Error code 4.4.7 usually indicates that the message in the queue has expired and usually the problem is on the receiving server. However, that is obviously not the case this time. Also…

How to get rid of index.php to make the pretty permalinks in WordPress

Posted in WordPress on December 10th, 2009 by Kent

Permalink is very important. It’s one of the first things that you need to configure when you build up a website. Not only does it provide you a more comprehensive url but it also helps you in the search engine optimization (SEO).

WordPress has this feature with 4 options built in out of the box. What you want to…

How to remove duplicate records from a table in SQL database

Posted in Information Technology on December 10th, 2009 by Kent

Scenario 1, one record is completely identical to another

Meaning that there is no way of identifying them who is who. Usually, it happens when the table doesn’t have a unique id field due to the poor database design. Because of that, there is no way in SQL to delete one of these duplications without deleting them all first.

You…

Running Chrome OS on VMware Player 3.0

Posted in Information Technology on December 2nd, 2009 by Kent

Google released the source code of their upcoming Chrome OS, and claimed that the official release of this Operation System won’t happen until next year 2010. So now, if we want to taste the goodies that Chrome OS brings to us, we would have to build Chromium OS from the source first. Luckily, several developers out…

This copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine, now what?

Posted in Information Technology, Tips & Tricks on December 1st, 2009 by Kent

My colleague came to me the other day asking why his laptop was telling him that his copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine. This was new to me, so I asked him to bring his laptop over so I can take close look. Sure enough, the following window pops up every time he opened Word.

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Virtual Desktop vs. Desktop Virtualization

Posted in Information Technology on November 26th, 2009 by Kent

This had confused me before so I am sure if you are just into Virtualization world you might be confused on what’s the difference between these two types of virtualization. Rodney Buike had a great post up on IT Pro Connection that explains pretty well what they are.

Basically, Desktop Virtualization is the act of running a…

Google is considering adding site speed into search result rankings

Posted in Internet on November 18th, 2009 by Kent

It’s not a rumor. It’s from Matt Cutts on his interview with WebPreNews at PubCon.

there is strong lobbying in Google to introduce a new ranking factor into the algorithm. The new ranking factor has to do with how fast a site or page loads. Matt described this as one of his ‘what to expect in 2010′

Daily Reading: Google announces big price cuts on paid extra storage, plus 3 more

Posted in Information Technology on November 13th, 2009 by Kent

Stop Paying for Windows Security

Posted in Information Technology, Security on November 13th, 2009 by Kent

The awesome How-To Geek had a very good post on lifehacker the other day, which I think worths a post space here spreading the word, loudly.

What he basically claimed in the post was

When it comes to keeping your Windows PC secure, all of the scare tactics and overblown virus stories out there make it