My GF and Vista

Published on June 3, 2008 in Australia under Life

My girlfriend's laptop has 1GB of memory, and Vista. I just heard a classic quote from her today: "I think Vista plus Office equals Monster." Followed by... "I just clicked the exsomething.exe with the somethingelse.exe and hit end task. Now my desktop went black." Read more.

My Portable Travel Stick

Published on June 29, 2007 under Tech Blog

This will be my last post from Taiwan, and I'm placing it in my tech section. Shortly I will be flying to Hong Kong, and then traveling into China. I'm not bringing my laptop with me. I'm always a little wary of using public computers, especially in many of the ... Read more.

IIS7 GoLive Program

Published on June 18, 2007 under Tech Blog

You can easily see that I am a big Linux fan, I've mentioned this over and over. I've also mentioned that I'm finishing up my MCSE, which started as a dare with my buddy, Ian. In the process of studying for my MCSE I've developed a certain amount of respect ... Read more.

One More Point Linux

Published on March 15, 2007 under Tech Blog

It should come as a surprise that I enjoy using Linux. For the record, the first time I booted into Linux on my own was 1997, this was just before entering high school. So, while some of my tech friends played with NT, I was rumbling with the Penguin. Starting ... Read more.

Small Business Server 2003

Published on Dec. 11, 2007 under Projects

Status: I've recently been hired for a company that does consulting for small businesses. Naturally, I haven't had a huge exposure to SBS. My employer asked me to take the SBS MCP Certification, and this afternoon, I passed. The exam was pretty easy -- I think ... Read more.

A Division in 30 Days

Published on June 30, 2005 under Projects

Status: On a Friday I was told we might purchase a division from another company. Monday I heard that we purchased the division, and that we needed to have a website taking orders and a call center, capable of handling 500+/day (and not short calls); by ... Read more.

Setting up Windows 2003 as an NTP Client

Published on April 29, 2008 under Notes and Tutorials

I have had to search for the commands to setup a Windows 2003 box as an ntp client a few times now, so have decided to finally write them down here for my own good measure. Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure there are three ways to setup a 2003 ... Read more.

Resize a VMWare Image of Windows XP

Published on Jan. 27, 2007 under Notes and Tutorials

 Over the years I have been shrinking the number of computers I own.  At one point my dorm was littered with old P100s, running whatever OS I felt like playing with at the time.  VMWare comes to help.  In this recent oops, an image I made (for Windows ... Read more.