About that Palm Pre
DaleIt’s been a week since the Palm Pre was released in the USA. The reviews on the first day were glowing. By tech journalists. Who I generally distrust, as they…
Game booster – improving Windows performance for gaming.
I’m not a ““Gamer””, but I think this would be a really useful little program for when you want to extract more “grunt” from your Windows PC. For gaming, or…
The Blinkenlights were so pretty.
I had to descend one level, to check out one of our systems. I could see though the access door window, that the lights on the whole floor were out.…
How to tell what USB plug type it is
Stolen from: USB overview and Plug & Receptacle pinouts
“Definitely Klingon. You can tell by the happy disposition.”
(as seen on Andrew Bolt’s blog)
Discovering what hotfixes are on your PC, via WMI
There are several ways to list what hotfixes are on your PC, such as looking in the registry, running MBSA, or visiting the Windows Update site. An easier way is…
Opening a hidden Lotus Notes view
In the Lotus Notes client, Click on the Create menu option Hold down the <SHIFT><CTRL> keys Select the View option, while still holding down the <SHIFT><CTRL> keys. The Create View…
“There is something wrong with these files …”
The desktop technician solved the problem himself, with the comment There is something wrong with these files ... but didn’t realise it. Microsoft PowerPoint XP was crashing whenever the customer…
I don’t know how they got a TAB into the filename,
but they did. Had a report from a user of LNME, that LNME was producing an error message, then crashing. The cause that an message attachment had a TAB character…
Exporting a list of user email addresses from your BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Was asked to extract a list of users, with their internet email address, and Lotus Notes server name, from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Surname Firstname Username CreationTime ActivationTime InternetAddress ServerDN…