Archive for June, 2007
So all the local NYC stores still have stock on the iPhone. eBay yesterday, around 7pm, had these things going for as much as $1200! Now there are so many auctions for .99 and no bids.
If you still want one there are deals to be had. I feel bad for the line waiters and high [...]
So all the local NYC stores still have stock on the iPhone. eBay yesterday around 7pm had these things going for as much as $1200! Now there are so many auctions for .99 and no bids.
If you still want one there are deals to be had. I feel bad for the line waiters and high [...]
One of my pet peeves is people with antivirus that is not up to date. Seriously now, why even have antivirus if you are not keeping it up to date?
For those of you out there that don’t have your antivirus up to date because you are too cheap to renew your license, then don’t fret! [...]
I just saw this from The Giz who got this from Think Secret:
The kids over at ThinkSecret have some exclusive pics of what they purport to be interface shots of the iPhone.
In these, we clearly see an RSS view thanks to the reader.mac.com URL, a previously unseen SIM loading procedure (requiring a paperclip), and what [...]
So the good folks over at lifehacker posted a great article about shadow copy here. they said it was only available to vista ultimate business users but us savvying folks over @ asktheadmin know that this has been available to us for almost 4 years now running xp and using server 2003 standard as our [...]
HAPPY FRIdAY BOYZ AND GIRLS!
So Windows Mobile 6 Professional says it comes with a remote desktop client but where is it on this new device from Tmobile?
I went looking for it today to access one of my servers on the fly and guess what – It ain’t there! I called Tmobile on it and [...]
So there you are at Starbucks sipping on your latte, and surfing on their incredibly high priced wifi with your brand new Alienware laptop thinking to yourself, “Self! This is a mighty good latte!”.
A few minutes later, you slip into a latte induced coma (Work with me here.) After about an hour or two you [...]
I have a buddy with a Buffalo Terastation Pro 2gb in a raid 5 array. They had major power outages in Manhattan yesterday and lets just say there was no UPS. When the power came back on the array smelled burnt and no power…
They have purchased another identical terastation but the drives show as failed [...]
I have a user with a Verizon Blackberry 8703e. Every few weeks the user is unable to send messages. when they try the get a big red x. They have tried soft resetting the phone by removing the battery and placing it back in. They have tried re-registering the device by going into Options > [...]
So I got a frantic phone call yesterday from a buddy of mine who lost his pst file due to a crashed hard drive. The thing is this guy normally backs up EVERYTHING!
When I asked him why he didnt back up his PST file regularly he kind of stared at me like a deer caught [...]
How many times have you been asked online to provide your personal information, such as your name, number and e-mail address? If you are like me, thousands of times, almost everyday. Each time you do it too, you have this aching feeling in your stomach, because you know you are about to get about a [...]
So it looks like anybody who is anybody got their iPhones already and have their reviews out. The big wigs were NYT, WSJ, USAtoday and Newsweek. None of the sites I thought would get em got them. Strange I was sure Engadget or Gizmodo would have gotten one.
Well the reviewers ran down their expectations [...]
Arrrrrrrrrr! No more copyrighted material will be flying around the trackers at two of the more popular bit torrent trackers on the interwebs. Is this a new trend? Will all the trackers fall prey to this trend?
How did the pirates get the birds to stay on their shoulders? Did they keep bird seed up [...]
“…Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don’t you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying [...]
I have recently fallen in love with having outlook run batch files depending on what an email from me to me says.
they say necesity is the mother of all inventions and it is certainly true. i have been using a wm 6 device with no blackberry support and popping a pop3 account on the run. [...]
Dell Lets Users Refuse ‘Bloatware’
Dell customers may now decline unwanted software or ‘bloatware’ applications loaded on (Certain)new PCs.
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From Ben Ames, IDG News Service
Dell Inc. is allowing its customers to decline the unwanted software applications loaded on new PCs, after hundreds of users complained about such “bloatware” [...]
Since we seem to be on a Blackberry kick today, I figure I’ll give a little gem that I have learned.
How to rebuild your blackberry.
If you’ve had a blackberry for any amount of time, odds are that you will experience the dreaded busted OS symbol which looks like a rectangle with a circle and a [...]
I had a call last week from a user wanting to migrate his 600+ contacts from his Palm PDA to his new Blackberry. He seemed to think that we needed to order some special software for him to do this. The funny thing is he already had Palm Desktop software installed. He thought that the [...]
Check it out – SYSinternals was aquired by Microsoft and they have been slowly integrating their tools into MS OS’s.
You can find all of their tools here.
We use a lot of these on a daily basis like WHOIS and PSTools, PSMon, PageDefrag, SDelete, PSKill, Handle, and PSInfo among others. These programs make the admin’s job [...]
Check it out SYSinternals was aquired by Microsoft and they have been slowly integrating their tools into MS OS’s.
You can find all of their tools here.
We use a lot of these on a daily basis like WHOIS and PSTools, PSMon, PageDefrag, SDelete, PSKill, Handle, PSInfo among others. These programs makes the admins job a lot [...]
How young is too young to be using the internet? What safe guards to you put in place to prevent your youngins from becoming victims of internet preadators? Do you but filters on, use special broswers or programs? What websites have you introduced your little ones to?
Are there any programs to run on your computer [...]
How young is too young to be using the internet? What safe guards to you put in place to prevent your youngins from becoming victims of internet preadators? Do you but filters on, use special broswers or programs? What websites have you introduced your little ones to?
Are there any programs to run on your computer [...]
If you work for a company (or go to a school) that uses some sort of web filtering product like Websense, Surfcontrol (Now owned by Websense), Blue coat or something similar, then this article is for you. These types of software are used to keep you from goofing off at work. Depending on your IT [...]
Mister Admin Guy,
My school administrators are fascists and block the majority of the web. I feel like we live in South Korea! Can you help me around it so I can get to your website and others – yes they blog blogger sites! Mother f&^%ers!!! I know you can use your technical ways to get [...]
I mentioned in a previous post that if you can use the Ultimate Boot CD for windows to create custom, deployable computer images similar to Symantec’s Ghost except it is 100% free. So what do I mean by images? Let’s talk about it for a minute.
Let’s say you are in a room, and you have [...]
Happy Saturday. Here is a question that comes to us from John in Denver.
Admin – how can I stop my Ipaq 6515 from freezing up? I have had it for 2 years and love it but recently it has been slow as hell. I have a few programs on it but when i have anything [...]
Hmmmm…I got an email from a buddy of mine a few days back and he was asking me how to link up his newly purchased domain name with his blogger blog.
I instructed him to go to his register account and point the domain name to his blogspot address. The old wait the proverbial 24-48 hours [...]
So alot of my end users do not know what NAT is . And if you havent guessed it is not what is pictured on the left! Users have no idea what the difference between ther external and internal IP addresses are or Public vs. Private. And chances are they will never know unless they [...]
I get calls all the time talking about how slow Outlook is, and Outlook is hanging, or freezing what have you. It is very common, so don’t feel you are alone. In fact, Outlook being slow is probably one of a help desk’s most frequent complaints. Very few times it is a server side issue, [...]
I really hope your answer to this is not Back up? What Back Up?
As an Admin on a day to day basis the one thing I say more then
“Have You Restarted Your Machine Yet?”
Is:
“When was the last time you backed up?
Ohh really that’s too bad.”
So thats your question post how, when and where [...]
Ok Kiddies,This is part 2 of of the illuminating subject of dealing with the 8125 Wizard and it’s battery madness. If you’ve read Part 1 of this series, you’ll remember that the battery in this device can indeed be resurrected from the dead, and with a little ingenuity, and some careful handiwork, this problem can [...]
I wrote this a little while back, but since the theme today seems to be based on defragmentation, I thought, why not re-post this here.
Anybody who is anybody knows that the built in Windows defrag utility stinks. It is very hard to schedule defrag and have it work correctly. The problem with that is that [...]
Here is the answer to our question that came from Alex in New York City and Hong in Indonesia a few posts back. They both want to know in there own ways how often do you need to defragement your Windows XP installation.While you are at it can you explain what fragmentation is? why is [...]
Eric B Writes to us:
Hey Admin Dude,
I had a real hard time with a pc recently and didnt have my knoppix disk with me. I didnt have another machine to d/l it with and I was so mad at myself because i had a jump drive with the knoppix image on it. Now so [...]
Defragmenting is just part of the Windows landscape. We’ve been doing it since…I dunno…Bill Gates hit puberty (he did?). Its just a habit, a way of life. Old habits die hard, even when users switch from a Windows OS to a new OS like Mac OS.
So, many users who have switched [...]
This question comes from Alex in New York City and Hong in Indonesia.
They both want to know in there own ways how often do you need to defragement your Windows XP installation.
While you are at it can you explain what fragmentation is? why is it bad? how do you defrag and when should you?
What about [...]
This question comes from Alex in New York City and Hong in Indonesia.
They both want to know in there own ways how often do you need to defragement your Windows XP installation.
While you are at it can you explain what fragmentation is? why is it bad? how do you defrag and when should you?
What about [...]
More specific Spotlight searches! Spotlight searches are sometimes not as good as they should be, especially if you have a lot of files with similar names. It is possible to narrow your results down by specifying the type of file you are looking for by adding “kind:type of file”. Here is an example showing a [...]
I got this question from a reader on my blog about his Blackberry. I had originally wrote about Deleted items on your Blackberry not syncing with Outlook, but this guy’s problem is the reverse. He has a user whose deleted items in Outlook do sync with the Blackberry, but they can take a few hours [...]
I originally posted this on my blog yesterday, but I thought we could post it here too. I was inspired to write this by one of the questions Karl got the other day about a user’s wireless setup at home. I hope some of this helps:
Everybody wants to get on wireless these days. It is [...]
Dan from Washington D.C. writes
My Imail server gets flooded by spam even using there filters – what type of solution can you recomend? We have 30 users and get almost 1 million spams a week. It is horrible. If we cant get a solution soon we will be switching back to phone/snail mail.
Dan in DC
Don’t [...]
Dan from washington d.c. writes
My Imail server gets flooded by spam even using there filters – what type of solution can you recomend? We have 30 users and get almost 1 million spams a week. It is horrible. If we cant get a solution soon we will be switching back to phone/snail mail.
Dan in DC
Dont [...]
Whats up boys and girls this question comes to us from Elizabeth in North Carolina. Who knew there were so many female admins! Liz says she has recently added all of her two offices to active directory. She migrated them using our workgroup to domain technique featured earlier this week here.
Hi Mr. Admin!
How can I [...]
We have all been there: stuck on a job impacting issue – the suits got you up against a wall and you are worried that they will can you if you don’t do it right. The pressure’s on. and this guy wouldn’t even let me print his name so we shall call him Anon:
I need [...]
We have all been there stuck on an job impacting issue – the suits got you up against a wall and you are worried that they will can you if you dont do it right. The pressures on and this guy wouldnt even let me print his name so we shall call him Anon:
I need [...]
Gizmodo is having a contest sponsored by the Sci-Fi channel’s Eureka. They want you to send in your best invention – if you get selected you get – That’s right – A free iPhone.
But for some reason I cant find the nitty gritty on whether they will run with my idea and leave me out [...]
Gizmodo is having a contest sponsored by the Sci-Fi channels Eureka. They want you to send in your best invention – if you get selected you get – That’s right! A Free iPhone.
But for some reason I cant find the nitty gritty on if they run with my idea and leave me out of it [...]
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June 21, 2007 in baby computer comment asktheadmin
Happy Thursday Afternoon,
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