I received my replacement battery from Dell this week. I took out the old battery from my laptop, put it in the box the replacement battery came in, and dropped the box in the local USPS mailbox to be returned for recycling. Then I thought, “What if the battery goes boom!” It must be nice [...]
Entries from August 2006
Things that make you go hmm…
August 25th, 2006 · No Comments · General
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Digg is interesting but I rarely go beyond the headlines
August 24th, 2006 · No Comments · General
I subscribe to both Digg and Slashdot RSS feeds. What I find interesting is that despite reading the feeds daily I rarely find much to write about. Most of the time I find that I read the headlines and click through on only a few links per day. This has me wondering about my reading [...]
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Smigrate Cheat sheet
August 18th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
Using Smigrate to dump SharePoint to a .CAB file
Dean’s presentation to the Puget Sound Users Group had yet another nugget of information on SharePoint. Did you know that sharepoint comes with another admin tool other than sbsadm.exe. It comes with…
smigrate.exe !!
So what can it do?
Works with sites based on WMSDE
Size is unlimited
Requires Admin [...]
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RE: Microsoft White papers on Malware and Spam via the SBS Diva
August 18th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
Security docs on the web today….
And interestingly enough they are in the “Midsized” documentation…but in reality these topics aren’t limited by the size of the firm.
Download details: Strategies for Managing Malware Risks:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=89ecfe72-03d4-4f3e-a673-49bcf840fa22&displaylang=en
Download details: How to protect E-mail Confidentiality in Regulated Industries:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E1530881-F77F-40BD-86BB-36A5BDE219E9&displaylang=en
Download details: Fighting Spam in an Exchange Server Environment:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2cd77472-beb3-40e5-a4b5-5ff8baf65997&displaylang=en
Download details: How to [...]
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Groundwork/Nagios Revisited
August 14th, 2006 · No Comments · OpenSource
Awhile back I got interested in Groundwork and downloaded two virtual machines, one from Tony Su and one from Ginaluca. The one from Tony Su was a little hard for me to setup initially so I downloaded a second one made by Gianluca. Gianluca’s virtual machine, baywatchos, appealed to me because it used Centos rather than SUSE, he had [...]
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My First Post with Word Writer
August 13th, 2006 · No Comments · General
This is my first post using Windows Live Writer. So far it looks pretty cool. I just got finished looking at the html and did not find any word style bloat. I will probably be comparing this with w.bloggar over the next couple of days.
The first problem that I found was when I modified this [...]
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Earth 911: recycling centers, water pollution and conservation, Earth Day
August 8th, 2006 · No Comments · General
Earth 911: recycling centers, water pollution and conservation, Earth Day
A nice resource for locating drop off centers for recycling computers, fluorescent lights, CRTs, etc.
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