To anticipate and prevent
So today I was changing my passport account password again (as I do often). I changed it to an 18 character password (Yes, some of my passwords are rather long). Then I poped over to my Windows Live Messenger (Which for thoes that don’t know is MSN Messenger 8.0 — its in beta) to punch…
I wont go into detail about all the changes, but the UI got a major overhaul. To be fair I really like the new interface, though I haven’t used it much. They moved to this new “Ribbon” system, and it gives you a live preview of alot of the style changes (especially in word). In…
I just discovered that windows supports ctrl+ins / shift+ins. Now for thoes that dont know ctrl+ins is like ctrl+c or copy and shift+ins is like ctrl+v or paste — this is something I’ve known for a long time from my linux usage. But I’ve never seen it work in windows nativly (other than random applications…
So there are a number of folders on one of our servers that had their ownership changed so that the domain admin (me) couldn’t access them. It makes it very hard for me to backup files off the machine. Anyways, they had screwed up the permissions so badly I couldn’t take owndership back from the…
So we’ve been trying to get one of the testing machines up on SQL 2005 with our product. After all, its still SQL, it should work just fine. Well it didn’t. We tried to connect with the Enterprise Manager using TCP/IP and it refused to work. We tried and tried and tried, but here’s the…
GET XP INSTALLED ON A MACINTEL. Apparently today the movie of XP on a Macintel has hit the net. Now I’m all for XP on a Macintel, I think that would be sweet. If it were true I’d almost consider getting a macintel mini or something similar (not a laptop — cause I must have…