To anticipate and prevent
I’ve been playing hookie from the office today as I am a bit sick. Its nothing terrible, but since classes start next week I’m trying to get better rather than pushing myself. Today wasn’t that bad — but I’m hoping that tommorrow is better. I may still stay home or at least sleep in late….
So a few days ago I changed the GPO (Group Policies) on the domain controller to setup our SMB network for unencrypted communication so that clients like Mac and Linux could get on SMB with the windows machine. Well these changes slowly propagated out to all the machines — only for me to find that…
So, you got yourself a mac, but you dont use the mac keyboard — or you dont want to. This is how it is for me, and thoes that I know. Everyone I know uses and ergo keyboard and mac makes the most un-ergo keyboards in the history of typewriters. Anyways the one key problem…
I know — its scary. I’m trying to get an OS X machine connected and running under our Microsoft AD. I’ve found a number of useful instructions while googling around — but nothing seems to work. I think that its due to encrypted SMB (due to the GPO) but after changing that it still doesn’t…
So the boss got a new Powerbook G4 17-inch today. Its his “portable audio/recording studio”. I’m not a huge fan of Macs, but they are nice. Once they stop idiot-proofing everything (or trying) and putting more than one button on the mouse (try 3) — I may buy one. But I have to admit that…
I just had a co-worker ask me how to change autoplay for XP, so I thought I’d write up a little tip for the webites. If you happen to have a type of CD/DVD that you stick in and windows auto-launches an application (probably one you dont want it to use), you can fix it….