Archive for February, 2008
Windows 2000 and XP produces a blue-screen of 0×7b after you transfer a Disk from one motherboard to another. The reason for it, is the difference in the IDE Disk controller.
Windows will only boot successfully using the same IDE controller of the same manufacturer (i.e. Intel, VIA etc..). It’s not that the Windows plug’n’play mechanism [...]
We are talking today about What goes into a good web site design and have Daniel Burka with us to answer a few questions. Daniel has some amazing work under his belt from his career at Silverorange but you probably know him from his Digg/Pownce claim to fame. He will also be presenting at WiF [...]
Some time duplicates are good things like in this image on your left. (feeling patriotic today?) But most of the time in the tech industry dupes are bad.
Today we got a question about how to kill duplicate files with different names quickly.
We immediately thought of one of our favorite old command line applications that was [...]
John wrote in that he dropped a screw into his HUGE server case as he was about to seal it up. Now who wants to take it apart again just to get that stupid little screw?
It sure looks like the good fellows over at ThinkGeek are in our heads because they have a solution (yet [...]
Hey Guys!
We broke 900 RSS readers this morning (again!) hopefully these new readers will stick! Our feedburner numbers have been fluctuating worse than the stock market!
Thanks goes out to one of our readers John. Thanks to him we have spent the whole day working on SEO and trying to beat the crap out of the [...]
Hey boys and girls!
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished you could sync calendars with somebody who is seemingly unconnected? On top of that, you wished that somehow, by some magical force, those calendars can sync automatically, wirelessly and invisibly; involving no further effort beyond the initial configuration, and that this calendar [...]
Before someone logs into your machine a message can be displayed. This is meant to inform you that you are being monitored or you are bound by some formal code of conduct.
You can use it to display a message in your absence to remind your buddies you are an all knowing Admin. You can do [...]
John from Brooklyn writes in:
I need to look like I have a staff. I want to email a word document somewhere and have it send me back a pdf. It would be helpful if it can go the other way or do some other conversions as well. Hows about it Admin? Any free services?
Hey John,
We [...]
The scary thing is that in a lot of places this would actually fly! You don’t want that Framistan to Gabol! That could be really bad. Purge the cache! Purge the cache! What do you mean you don’t know where the cache is??_TheProductivityMeetingAdmiN_
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We have looked at loads of free backup solutions and as our readers pointed out they all have their limitations. It’s either capped uploads, downloads or slow as hell speeds.
The old saying you get what you pay for is some times true… (AtA tries to avoid it as much as possible) When dealing with [...]
Have you seen this video yet? Even my mom has seen it but how many of you are actually using disk encryption? Really that many??
What kind of illegal or illicit shit are you into?
And you think your data warrants a torrent of hackers going after YOUR lappie?
No we kid, we kid, of course AtA is [...]
A previous article explains how to use the awesome VLC player to rip a DVD to an MPEG-1 file. Technically, it gets the job done, but there are other options. Storage is dirt cheap so why not retain the full image quality and size as well as all the menus, languages, subtitles and bonus [...]
The review 2710p HP COMPAQ tablet was sent out overnight delivery. I was excited. I love opening the pretty packaging to look at a new machine. Truth be told I had been contemplating getting a tablet for a while now. I was shocked at how light and small it was. Check out how the [...]
We have reviewed Crucial Memory in the past here when we gave away a 2gb memory module to one of our readers. So we were happy to plug them again when Jenny from San Fransisco wrote us asking:
Yo Admin can you tell me what kind of memory is in my PC without me having to [...]
So you have lots of DVD’s that you thought you would always love and want to keep the boxes of on your bookshelf – for everyone to see.
Yeah we know that funny feeling, peoples strange looks give you for your taste in media – but we won’t mention THOSE kind of shows now will [...]
I know AtA has loads of ways for you to get in touch with Me and my crew of international admins for some good old fashioned tech support but, this looks really interesting. Check out the breaking news.This just in from the blogger buzz:
With GrandCentral, a free service from Google, you can receive phone calls [...]
I know, I know it’s not a weekly round up if you don’t do it every week. But do you really care? Are you that ana…
Sorry I have had a long morning! It’s snowing like crazy in NYC today, I got stuck on the B train for an hour and the best of the best… [...]
Sometimes the quickest way to undo a modification or update is through System Restore. Then there are the times you can’t get to the Windows interface to run it. What do you do then?
If you can get to the command prompt you can run system restore with the following commands like seen in the image [...]
We have been using the infamous MSCONFIG.exe for years now (closer to a century) and have tested several applications that improve upon it. But thanks to MyMyTech.com we found a new favorite!
(Maybe not! Have you guys seen AutoRuns from Microsoft?Thanks Igor!)
This program is appropriately named StartUpList and it does what it says and more! This [...]
If you have been trying to sign up for our daily email updates in the last little while you might have seen something that looks like this:
The script error has been fixed and once again you can sign up for our email blasts. We apologize for any inconvenience and realize we have left our new [...]
As we all know, blogger can’t do everything that WordPress can do BUT, there are workarounds and hacks galore that can help you do what you want.
The one thing I could not find a decent work around for was auto publishing articles based on time and date. This is not a revolutionary thing – but [...]
Hey there drunkey… The long weekend has come and gone? So has your deadline but not your hang over?
Don’t worry AtA to the rescue…
Well Kinda.
Everyone remembers the old my dog ate my homework excuse. Doesn’t it work so much better when it is accompanied by a shredded bitten up report?
Well now instead use this century’s [...]
After hearing so many horror stories like this one – we can NOT endorse MediaMax and give them a BIG FUCK YOU! Thanks anyway guys better luck next time. In the mean time check out Adrive.
Unless you are new around here you know how much AtA LOVES free stuff. Especially free stuff we can use [...]
I would like to monitor event logs on multiple windows machines – maybe ping them every so often?
I used to use something called Emon but it seems pretty outdated. I looked at bigBrother but it seems too expensive.
Do you have a solution?
Have you heard of VMWare??
If you are game then keep on [...]
There are two things we hate over @ AtA : Registering for a website JUST to SEE content.That is just evil – sure you get your membership numbers up but…
We HATE you. We hate you we hate you we hate you. Did I say we hate you?
Most of you have heard of the [...]
You might have seen it before on someone else’s laptop, and wondered how you can get down with the hibernation game. Why doesn’t it show up by default on your shutdown screen?? Don’t have hibernation envy!
I’m referring to seeing 4 options to choose from on your Shut Down menu of Windows XP. After this hack [...]
Well I am so glad you asked! We just found ourselves head over heels on valentines day and the object of our affection is Digsby. No Digsby is not some strange foreign chick.
Digsby is a multi-client instant messenger. It can do Gtalk, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber. This is what we have been looking for! [...]
Jodi writes in:
I wasn’t sure who I should contact about this, so i am sending this to you. As of late, word attachments coming from my friend on a Windows XP Machine appear as “winmail.dat” files.
When I try to open these, the text runs about 150pp long, (it’s a 4page doc) and the [...]
For those of you out there still living in the dark ages, and still using Telnet on Windows because you haven’t found a more viable alternative (You know who you are) We have some good news for you!
Maybe you haven’t decided to switch to a more secure solution because you use Windows Servers and Windows [...]
Following in the footsteps of the Annoy-O-Tron we wrote about a little whiles back, we have another gadget that can make a grown man cry! Some of you guys wrote in $10 was too rich for your blood. We heard you loud and clear and this one is only $8.95
This tiny little remote is [...]
Hey Kiddies,
It’s time for some more time-saving, hassle killing, good, clean, free, fun. I work in a corporate environment, and lots of times, there are people who suffer from serious RTFM errors. Those people are prime candidates for the “Spell it out for me” award. This nifty little proggy, called MWSnap (named after it’s creator [...]
Excuse me while I vent a little. I hate it when I come into the office with a nice hot cup of $6.00 coffee and someone manages to drag me over to their cube or office to “Show Me Something” instead of just explaining it. We do speak the same language and all – I [...]
At first I thought this was a joke. You know dude please show me how to be l33t. But then after a little bit of clarification our junior admin Adam in PA is troubleshooting a connectivity issue across his VPN to a single server and intermittently the network. Adam wants to do so from the [...]
I am tired of people asking me how to do mundane tasks in office 2007 because they don’t understand the new UI.
If you are here to figure out how to use the new file types in older versions going back to 97, keep reading and hit the link below.
I guess Microsoft is [...]
You sure can! If you find yourself mouse-less You can pull up the task manager in any Windows version 2000 or better with…
Control-Shift-Escape
_TheQuickPostin’AdmiN_
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I remember back to when Windows 98 machines were getting pwned left and right to the mighty Back Orifice. That was a great play on the old Microsoft Back Office Suite – get it??
For those of you who were 1337 back then you knew port 31337 was used to remotely control your machine with this [...]
Hey, Hey, Hey AtA I loves me some giveaways!
Happy Friday boys and girls. Let me start by saying thank you for the overwhelming response we got to this contest – even if the lot of you can’t follow the rules. Who needs stinking directions, right?
Wrong! We [...]
I gave my office desktop a new lease on life today with a badly needed re-formatting instead of beating it with a bat.
Formatting is always a good thing (provided you have a reliable backup) and this time it caused me to have a revelation.
Don’t worry kids, The Admin isn’t [...]
How Do you blog?
Do you enjoy writing in your on-line editing platform? It doesn’t matter which one you use – Blogger, WordPress or something else they all suck big donkey balls.
And now get this one – Microsoft of all companies has put out a FREE tool to aid you in your quest for [...]
The title of this question here is a little misleading because you can use this little web app to serve lots of stuff besides quotes like random ads or words of wisdom. Get your geek on and swap out scripts and images galore!Originally we used the free RandomQuote ASP generator to feed our geeky quotes [...]
You need to show your buddy exactly how you do your funky effects in Photoshop? Want to record a quick tutorial on how to open ports or some other question you get hit with on the daily?
Well then check out this FREE application that TechFires tossed out at us a little whiles back. It fits [...]
A lot of users don’t use MSN Messenger but it comes pre-installed and runs all on its on. It can annoy the hell out of people who want control over their machine. GO figure you own the machine, the software and everything else but M$ dictates how everything is supposed to work!
Here is a quick [...]
I get asked this one A LOT – it’s right up there with “Where is my right mouse button?” and “Where’s the start Menu?” We enjoyed this response and thought it would be nice to share it.
After using a mac for coming up on 3 years, not one single time has the operating system crashed, [...]
Okay, I have been politely asked by Karl to bring a little bit of Mac/Apple love to this blog. While I think this may just be part of his devious plot to get a Apple Air for review, I have agreed to oblige. So here it is my first Ask the Admin’s [...]
Are you excited?
Lasers are right up there with jetpacks in my book and they are a lot cheaper!
Don’t get me wrong they are still expensive but it is now definitely in any mad scientist’s budget. Let’s watch guest blogger David reap the benefits of being affiliated with AtA as he plays with his very [...]
You read that right homeboy.
Now that I have jumped deep into the pool that is Apple I have discovered some tricks that those fan boys don’t want you to know.
I am going to combine two of them into one tip for you out there in AtA land.
They are reading ANY MAC disk on your [...]
This morning we had a request for adding a “High Priority Folder”.
This would be a top level folder that shows up on your Windows desktop and in My Computer. Didn’t think you could do that? Well read on…
The folder we will be creating can not be removed – just like My Computer or My Documents. [...]
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