Backup mistakes I’ve made.
DaleConfessions can be good. Here are mine around backup mistakes I’ve made. Copy “new” backup disk over the “old” backup disk. The “new” disk was blank! I (almost) “lost” 5…
How to extract device drivers from your PC.
Use Driver Magician. Why? Well sometimes you’ll get a laptop from a manufacturer, and to remove all the crapware, you’ll want to reformat the laptop. Reformatting is normally the best…
Fancy Dress
Artwork by Komplexgraphix.com; on the side of a Fancy Dress shop. I was running late for work, but I stopped to grab a photo of this artwork.
Semi-regular web-link clearance – January 2010
Get-ComputersNearMe Today I learned a little bit about how to get to some of the data stored within special shell folders. You can get a list of all of the…
Lonely little SMS 2003 .PCK files
The call came in: Noddy22 has less than 5% disk space left. Our Microsoft SMS 2003 servers are getting a bit tired, and we really don’t want to replace them…
The Windows PowerShell syntax was deliberately chosen
The Windows PowerShell syntax was deliberately chosen to facilitate ease of use and ease of learning. Corporate enterprise Windows administrators are the target audience. - Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide by…
The Man Who Walked Around The World
Impressive that it was done in one take.
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…
Backups with the 3-2-1 rule
A simple rule I’ve learnt over time, with backups. 3 Backup copies of anything you want to keep. 2 different storage media. 1 offsite storage site. 3 There have been…
Excel: how do I calculate the date 24 weeks from today?
The question was: Need to create series with dates in intervals of 6 weeks 24 weeks and 52 weeks. want it to be set to do it automatically. Can anyone…