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VMWare has announced the release of Beta 2 for Mac. Code named Fusion. It can utilize multiple CPU cores, and even allow you to host 64 bit windows based operating systems on your Mac. It has been designed from the ground up using Cocoa, so the interface works well with other Mac applications. A few […]
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If you are not familiar with it yet. Microsoft is working on a new server version of windows that is aimed at the home user. It is called Windows Home Server. When I first heard of it I was highly skeptical. I thought that for my needs it would be too simple. On the other […]
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Click Here to go back to Part 1 Once the install finished the system rebooted and it launched right into the desktop without even typing in a password. At first this concerned me, but quickly it came up with a POPUP box: I rebooted, and changed the password right away. A few things to notice […]
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Click Here to go back to Part 1 The web interface is the most interesting part of Home Server. I was expecting the worst (Think SharePoint). And again, I was pleasantly surprised. You can access almost everything from the web interface. Files, Pictures, Music, Printers, and even connect through your Windows Home Server to remote […]
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First of all I would like to apologize to those of you who check this blog regularly. Our free daylight saving time patch for windows was more popular than we ever expected. I have this thing about having *every* email answered. Maybe it was not such a good thing since as we approached the new […]
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Microsoft announced today that they have released Service Pack 2 for SQL server 2005. This is the long awaited update that makes it Vista compatible. Key enhancements to SQL Server SP2 include the following: — Data Mining Add-ins for the 2007 Microsoft Office system enable data mining functionality from SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to […]
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Many times a UNC path does not work properly in a command line bat file. This is a hold over from DOS, a compromise to ensure backward compatibility. I have found a little known command (At least to me). Actually there are two of them. PUSHD, and POPD Call PUSHD with a UNC share as […]
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Here is an interesting one. I found a way to take the %date% environment variable, and turn it into a valid string for a filename – without any extra programs or scripts. For the longest time I used a little utility I created to do this. The problem with that is the utility needs to […]
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We have just added a new feature to Network Administrator. It allows you to audit and verify that the Daylight Saving patch (For USA and Canada) has been installed. This works for our patch, and Microsoft’s. (It will even tell you when you have the older, incorrect version of the MS patch) In addition we […]
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I would have never thought we would have gotten so many emails for a Windows 98 DST Patch. If you missed it, we have created an unofficial patch for Windows 2000 that updates it to the new Daylight Saving Time enacted here in the United States. Microsoft is not providing one since Windows 2000 is […]
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