SMS 2003 Server running slow, check your AV exclusions.
DaleWe had a problem with one of our SMS servers today, it was not processing DDR records. All 19,000+ of them. After some investigation, a co-worker found it was a…
So does the Corporate IT Policy get enforced?
It’s been my sad experience over the last 20+ years, that what’s in the IT Policy vs. what gets enforced, is a bit of guess work for most people. Here…
Lotus Notes Shell links
The user reported In Lotus Notes, when I create an attachment, I click on "My Documents" shortcut, and it should take me to My Documents folder. BUT Lotus Notes is…
To patch or not
I don't know the answer, and here's an explanation why. There are two schools o thought about whether your system should have the latest patches or not. "The patch everything…
Bye bye Palm Pre
I wrote about the Palm Pre back in June. Just heard that Telstra have no plans to introduce it to Australia. The Pre, and Palm are dead, they just don't…
Nigel No Friends
A co-worker migrated the last user off our old BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Barry. "Barry to be renamed to Nigel-No-Friends", was the announcement. (Non Australian readers should look at the Urban…
Sometimes search assist doesn’t work that great.
I was searching for the coffee chart here, and I started typing hot co, and I got these suggestions from DogPile Image search
Windows Update website – Error 0x80240025
on a Windows XP PC. As I wrote in Windows Update: Network policy settings prevent you from using this website ..., you’d often see a Windows Update error when your…
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…
Duplicate files and hashing in Visual Basic.
Duplicate file detection is fairly easy to do, as it turns out, and it goes like this. Read first file. Calculate a unique fingerprint, and store the fingerprint. Read second…