Microsoft

4 tips to keep your PC running smoothly

February 9, 2010

What to know an insider tip? Computers require maintenance. I’m still the “go to guy” when my friends and family need computer help. I like that because I’m in this business to help people. However, I’m consistently surprised how few users are aware of some simple tasks to keep their PC happy. So from a [...]

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Fun with UDP conflicts and DNS port randomization

September 18, 2009

If you running a Windows server there is a good chance that you will some day encounter a conflict when a particular service tries to start and it will state that the UDP port is already in use. If you run a report to see what service is currently using that port there is a [...]

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Straight talk to Microsoft and Yahoo

June 3, 2008

O’Reilly Radar | May 24 2008 | Tim O’Reilly | link This piece should be entitled “Straight talk to Microsoft and Yahoo. Tim O’Reilly nails this fireburner of a piece that identifies the cause Microsoft’s floundering and Yahoo’s 2nd fiddle mindset.. He defines where these companies should be looking and in doing so discusses where [...]

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Olympic task with Silverlight

May 8, 2008

Imagine you have a new web product that nobody really needs or uses… How do you people to install it? Well if you are Microsoft and you are desparate to compete with Adobe Flash you make a deal to broadcast the Olympic web coverage via Silverlight. Yes friends if you want to see any Olympic [...]

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Manipulating Alternate Data Streams

April 9, 2008

This piece comes from the great Mark Minasi newsletter. He approaches Alternate Data Streams (ADS) from the perspective of does Windows know that an executable is from the internet? You might have seen some security related dialog boxes that prompt you to verify that you want to run a particular downloaded program. Mark simply wondered [...]

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Open (office) letter to John C. Dvorak

March 2, 2008

Dear Head Crank Dvorak, I enjoy your show and watch the tivocast regularly. I wanted to write and express my disagreement with your assessment of alternative Office suites. I am a very satisfied user of OpenOffice for over a year a now and I must say I could not disagree more with your opinion that [...]

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Microsoft iPod Parody

February 28, 2008

This was new to me and I just kept laughing, I hope you like.

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Free Tool Diagrams your Domain

February 28, 2008

Here is a new killer app that every Windows’ admin should have in their toolbox. Introducing the Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer (ADTD). It reads your AD structure and the automatically generates a Visio diagram of your AD/Exchange topology. Yes you read that correctly it is free and it is automatic. I preach documentation like [...]

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