Archive for May, 2008
We saw loads of issues this past week with Feedburner, Google PR and angry midgets. What can I say except we made it through and our stats are looking better than ever. Except for some heavily dinged knee caps we came out ahead! And now here are some of our top stories you might have [...]
So you like to share you music eh?
Don’t worry we wont narc on you and we will even help you to find out who on your network is listening to your tunes. When you go to close iTunes down and it yells back at you that someone is connected to your library – what do [...]
I got this question from someone named Inga in Amsterdam and it made me laugh. It also immediately made me think of this Dilbert cartoon strip:
The answer I sent back to Inga was:
No the Internet is MUCH worse because it is socially acceptable – look people are doing it as they walk down the street…
Inga [...]
We all tag on a daily basis, Not like we used to – hitting each other and going… YOUR IT!
I’m also not talking about graffiti and catching tags and fill-ins. Even though the above geeky graffiti shot is hysterical… But as usual I am going off topic!
I am talking about tagging images, blog posts, documents [...]
If geeks ran the world (more than they do already) this is what our TV guide would look like:
My favorite is The Assembler Apprentice and their quote “You’re Pwned!”
[Via blogoscoped]
_TheWhosLaughingNowAdmiN_
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Hey there??? Hi!!!??
How’s it going?????
Nothings wrong! Why do you ask????Oh no. We always shake lIkE thAt!
DoEsN’t EveRyOnE???
Alright we got the pleasantries out of the way now – Holy crap it has happened. This is something straight out of Futurama. (Sorry for the re-run!)That’s right you shower and lather up this “Shower Shock” [...]
It’s an Admin’s worst nightmare (well one of them).
A server’s system disk is quickly running out of space for no apparent reason. You know that when the system drive fills the server is going to shut down and you’re going to have a lot of unhappy users. You need to find out what [...]
Hello fellow geeks and geekette’s! It is I, El Di Pablo back with another quick Ubuntu tip. I thought of this because I am working on creating an Ubuntu 8.04 VMWare GSX server for my company. I figured I might as well write about it on aTa while it is still fresh in my mind.
As [...]
We got an email from our buddy Jay from Mosio.com and he was having some problems with Word 2003. It seems it is a pretty common issue and let’s see how we helped him out.
Check it out below:
Hi Admin, I have a question for you – Word crashed on me, and now when [...]
A Firefox extension called RSS Ticker turns your Firefox live bookmarks into a scrolling RSS ticker. Thats right! You wind up with an amazing bar of scrolling RSS goodness. The RSS Ticker sits below the status bar and shows your live bookmarks as they are updated. Almost every thing about RSS Ticker is customizable, like [...]
So after an early morning visit to AtA I noticed our feed burner count was down drastically and that our Page Rank has dropped from a 6 to a 3.
I would say that Google is hating on us but we have had a huge INCREASE in traffic from Google in the last week or so.So [...]
I tend to get this call even more often then the “My password doesn’t work.” phone call. It’s the ever so popular “My keyboard is broken and I can’t type – fix it!” call. I will remote desktop into their machine and check it out. Doing my usual thing saving documents and checking the device [...]
If you loved the last IT warning sign we posted here… Then here is another one for your enjoyment:
Am I the only one that finds this hysterical to hang in a computer lab?_TheBigBrotherAdmiN_
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Your friendly neighborhood Admin gets piles of messages about Vista’s UAC and how much users despise Microsoft for doing this to them hate it. We showed you how to disable it here, how to use a super Administrator account here and The HowToGeek’s method for disabling UAC for Administrator accounts here.
But people want the best [...]
Reader Jay writes in:
I have a question for you Mr. Admin, after running or installing an App why do some of them find a new home on my start menu? This is really annoying can we turn off this annoying piece of crap feature?I know I can manually remove them but I hope [...]
Why should you image?
When you have one machine to deploy, you insert your CD or DVD, click through the prompts, enter your license key, install all your software and make your customizations. It’s time consuming, but when you only have to do it for a single machine it’s not too bad. What happens when you [...]
I don’t know about you sometimes we find files that were downloaded weeks ago and wonder where they came them. Usually on my PC I just shrug my shoulders open it up and see.
Well, it turns out that OS X has this little known feature built-in. You just have to select the file and hit [...]
I have been doing the tablet thing for a little while now and as you all know I blog daily. So when I came across this “Snipping Tool” in Vista I feel in like. Now I don’t know if it’s like like or just like but time will tell! Redmond brings us this HUGE improvement [...]
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 [...]
Happy Mother’s Day!
For today lets figure out how to clean up your wires and gear to make the women our inner neat freaks! in our lives happy.
What does your rack or server room look like? Shoot us some Pics of your gear to Pics at AskTheAdmin Dot Com.
Here is a picture of what your [...]
Great open-source utility to recover lost Windows account passwords or to break into a locked machine.
In some cases, you can use special tools that reset your forgotten password (which I’ll write about in my up-coming posts..). but there are cases, where you don’t want to risk harming the system even more, or where you must [...]
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! I was shocked he didn’t have another copy ready to go.
When I asked him why he didn’t back up his PST file regularly [...]
I don’t know how useful this actually is but I thought I would share it with you guys anyway.
You seem to like useless information… Right??
This trick threw me for a loop. I was watching a junior admin install Windows Vista from a CD and he turned to me smirked and said
“Want to see something cool?”
I [...]
Hi boys and girls,
Do you remember when Ask The Admin covered a very interesting topic of Free Exchange services? For those who don’t, you can look here, here and sometimes here.
In a nutshell, this article talked about how me and my fiance’ had to plan our wedding and had tons of appointments flying in from [...]
If you are any type of respectable geek you have one or more machines at home that you use to store your porn important data, documents and backups.
You probably also leave these machines on all the time. If you’re not using them to pull down torrents all night or need to remote into them, [...]
I was happily surprised by SharpCast’s SugarSync. I got a free subscription from their PR department so I gave it a whirl.
I installed a little application to sync my HUGE pictures, music and work folders with their site. The purpose of sugarsync is to keep all of your important files synced up across whatever machine [...]
Have you ever brought up a Open dialog and thought to yourself…
Why can’t I copy the path of a file/folder directly from explorer? The Microsoft boys must have heard ya because here it is on your context menu!
It doesn’t work in XP but… now it is an option, in Windows Vista.What you need to do [...]
So I am sure all you guys know that July 26th is SysAdmin day. Yes we have our own holiday – didn’t you know? We told you a little bit about it last hear on July 26th and I am guessing my tardiness and procrastination didn’t help my cause in promoting the holiday.
No [...]
We got this message from Fred early in the AM. I guess its great for him that we don’t sleep past 7AM anymore!
I am using Outlook 2007. When I get email the pictures show as Red boxes with “X”’s in them. I used to be able to right click on the boxes and download the [...]
What up AtA?
It’s a beautiful morning out here in New York City. All my servers are purring along this morning nicely and I can actually enjoy my cup of coffee without resorting to gadgets. The Data Center was strangely quiet – no one around. No one restoring, repairing or goofing off.
I guess now is as [...]
They say necessity is the mother of all inventions, except for the bastard children of people looking to be lazy and productive.
Tinyurl has been around for a long whiles now and many of you probably use it on a daily basis and don’t even know it. Websites use it to hide links, people use [...]
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, [...]
One Bad Day at the Office
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Hey Admin what kind of techno magicary are you in possession of over at aTa HQ?
Your Strikethroughs come through well timed and hilarious in both my web browser and my feed reader.
But alas, when I try to do the same thing in either blogger or word press it looks like CRAP in my feed reader. [...]
Hello out there in admin land!
It is I, El Di Pablo here to bring you a quick Ubuntu tip for the week. I haven’t written on aTa in a while due to my hectic schedule, but I am sure you have seen me milling about the comments quite a bit.
Anyhoo, so there I am last [...]
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA.
—————————————ME
Here’s the scenario….
Backed up info off old laptop to external HD.
During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!!
You know where this is going [...]
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