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Microsoft Blogs.
I subscribe to the raw Microsoft Technet and MSDN feeds here: http://blogs.technet.com/MainFeed.aspx?Type=AllBlogs & http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx These are really useful as it allows me to...
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Post borrowed from The Old New Thing
With multiple screens on my work PC, sometimes a program window disappears off screen. Until now, I didn’t know how to fix it. And it wasn’t annoying enough for me to find the answer. Not when I had...
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Stop Digging
So good it’s worth quoting: … Within 1/2 an hour the “rocking” VSTS team had resolved the problem, leaving me stranded on a vertical cliff, wondering how I ever got up there and why I bothered in the...
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“100 fatals per compile is NOT excessive!”
Clint Edmonson, over at notsotrivial.net, has a great post about how to assess your developer team skills. The short version, is characterised like this: Novice – “Just tell me what you want me to do.”...
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Seen @ blogs.technet.com: W2K3 to W2K8 Active Directory Upgrade Considerations
W2K3 to W2K8 Active Directory Upgrade Considerations I have collected some upgrade considerations from a couple colleagues of mine and have been sharing them on our internal technical DLs as the...
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AlternativeTo
Are you looking for a piece of software like product X, and you want to know what alternatives there are? Well you can always try AlternativeTo, a search engine for alternative software choices. Wish...
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So THAT’S where the Little Black Dress comes from!
No lady’s wardrobe is quite complete without the little black dress that has been around forever. A little black dress is an evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often with a short skirt. Since...
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Dilbert talking about Microsoft licensing & pricing?
I saw Ed Bott’s “Microsoft’s Grinch kills Windows 7 Family Pack”, and then saw today’s Dilbert: It kinda fits. Ed talks about Microsoft removing the Windows 7 Family Pack offering. From my past...
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“Beware of Integrated eSATA ports”
I don’t like quoting whole slabs of another blogs posts, but this is worth spreading to a wider audience: … If you only use a single drive attached to an eSATA port, you can quit reading, but if you...
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“… concerned about the heating of external drives …”
“I’m concerned about the heating of external drives because many of these little enclosures provide no active air flow across the drive.”, opines Steve Gibson. And in the field of hard disk...
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How to redirect Blogger Beta to WordPress.com (Laffers.net)
This was originally a post at Laffers.net, but I’m getting constant timeouts to that site, so I’m going to repost it here, just in case Laffers.net has gone down. This copy was captured by the Google...
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Printer toner
Printer toner, depending on who you ask, is cancerogenic. Or not. The Material Safety Data Sheets I’ve seen, say not. But I still wouldn’t breath toner in. Now some of the printers I’ve worked on...
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“MySpace Angles”
Saw a blog article over at www.officialdatingresource.com, probably via a LIfeHacker article, about “MySpace Angles”. Hadn’t heard the term before. Here is a couple of photos which illustrate MySpace...
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The top 10 books borrowed by Microsoft UK staff
Originally saw this over at the Microsoft UK Schools Blog. The Top 5 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Have read this myself. Worked with a bloke who thought it was the best thing since sliced...
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“The Diary of a Microsoft Marketing Man”
Must remember not to have a mouthful of coffee while reading one of Phil Factor’s blog posts: The Diary of a Microsoft Marketing Man I woke up, in a ‘one stop’ process requiring a subtle paradigm...
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The most popular FREE WordPress Plugins according to ProBlogger users.
Over at ProBlogger, Darren Rowse asked his community, “What are your favourite FREE WordPress Plugins?” With more time than sense on my hands, I compiled a list of the 183 unique WordPress Plugins...
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I was reminded of a certain blogger.
Though I can’t see her riding a Honda Shadow 250 Related posts: How to redirect Blogger Beta to WordPress.com (Laffers.net) So you want to move from Blogger to a WordPress blog Things I learnt when...
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Computer Associates eTrust ITM definitions not updating
I was researching (another) eTrust issue today, and found this (defunct) blog post by Brad Benner. Thought I’d save it from the memory hole. The virus definitions for one of our internal servers...
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Proof of purchase for plastic knives
There is this photo doing the rounds on the internet. Often with the comment “I can’t believe it’s true”. Well it’s true in Victoria Australia at least, From the Guide to Retailers: “Q: Can I sell...
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The Microsoft “Ask the Performance Team” write about WMI
And I am going to include the links here, because a) they are useful and b) they compliment some of the posts I’ve written about WMI (Group Policy and WMI Filtering Slowness / The WMI Fix – which is...
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