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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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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. [...]
We found this directory up on Mozilla’s servers today with this note in place:
Welcome!
This directory contains pre-pre-pre-alpha builds ofMozilla2. They are not yetrepresentative of whatFirefox 4 will look like.These builds are not regularlytested – use at your own risk.
For those interested, thesource code is here.
Hmm this is exactly what virtual machines are for! Let’s see [...]
So after installing Windows XP SP3 this morning I noticed that the Windows Firewall popped up on restart asking me if I wanted to allow My VNC server access to the internet then my instant messenger. WTF?
I hate the Windows Firewall. You can see my feelings illustrated by the picture at the top of top [...]
How long was it after Windows XP SP 2 came out before you were ACTUALLY able to download it?
I remember the mad dash to download XP SP2 and how the Windows Update Servers were crawling. With this tip you can skip the 56kbps downloads and have it in a jiffy.
This super secret download link (Waiver: [...]
I don’t know if I am doing you a favor or being an asshole by posting this But, one of our readers Daryl sent this in and I have been absorbed by it over the last few days.
Lets just hope none of my servers were beeping angrily as I was shoot, shoot, shooting away!
Check it [...]
I can’t give you X-Ray vision. I can’t even explain this picture on the left (Freaky Ain’t It??).
But I do have an answer to seeing through one window to another.
No we are not talking about real life glass windows (that would be stupid wouldn’t it?) – We ARE talking about a Microsoft Window’s, Window.
(Ok [...]
AskTheAdmin has covered third party applications that create similar shortcuts. But we know you guys want to be able to do this stuff from scratch with out no stinking tools. It is simple as pie (pie is actually not that simple, nor is PI). Simply fire up a text editor and type in the following [...]
But you have your reservations.
You’ve gotten so accustomed to using MS Office and Open/Star Office just wont make you happy.
You like Adobe Acrobat and have web apps that require Internet Exploiter.
Photoshop…Lotus Notes….Winrar….Flash, Dreamweaver, iTunes, Quicktime, etc…
Nope you can’t use Ubuntu, not with those things.
But you’re wrong!
Just yesterday I stumbled across a product, which I am [...]
I had the pleasure of attempting to migrate a print server this weekend. I mean I had to figure out a quick and efficient way to install the 70 some odd printers on a new server. I was not going to be doing this manually that was for shit sure! I had some junior admins [...]
Take That TimeWarner!
Recently Commodore64 lamented that his ISP, TimeWarner cable had lowered his upload speed to 60k. Well sir, I hope Verizon will be rolling out fiber in your area soon. They were here today to install their FiOS service, and it rocks! As you can see, I am getting significantly faster uploads than TimeWarner [...]
John from Staten Island wrote in to us asking if he had to purchase the full version of Vista for the new PC he just built or could he Hack “Finese” the upgrade version into installing?
Obviously money is the deciding factor in what OS the machine will ultimately hold so John was VERY happy when [...]
Be fore-warned, head my warning, listen well young reader… .. insert any other corny sounding warnings you can think up here…
This will consume your free time. It is worse than Snood or the Image labeler from Google.
Your favorite Plumber turned strange creature hunter, princess rescuer and now some kind of strange floating bubble spewing [...]
Did you know that you can add or change the search engine that sits in your upper right corner of your fox browser?One of our readers, Alex wanted to replace his default live search with ask or Google. What you have by default depends on where you downloaded your fox from.
You still with us? Good!There [...]
If you use any version of Microsoft Office 2000 or better chances are you have seen the AutoText feature before. You might not have know what it was or how to manipulate the entries but AtA is here to show you how!
You can get the menu on the left here by going to anything that [...]
You went out and copped yourself a brand spanking new machine?
Nervous about moving all your stuff from one machine to another?
Fear not end user…
If you want to skip to the how to and pass on the intro to profiles 101 just skip down to the ** below and start your migrating!From all the machines I [...]
AtA’s good friend and productivity guru, Daniel Pataki over at hack your day posted an article on making a web application into a standalone app.
Yes now you can have a browser independent program that normally requires a distracting browser window to run. We are talking about your Google Docs, Analytics or… Well, anything actually.
You [...]
You saw when I un-boxed and released the HP MediaVault mv5150 into the wild (aka my home/office) here. It has been playing nicey nicey with the rest of my gear since.
At first I thought the Media Vault was going to be something that only the wife and distant relatives were going to love. Allowing wifey [...]
If you are like us and spend your days copying files here or there, you have definitely seen the prompted “Confirm File Replace” window. It shows up if there was another file with the same name already existing n the target destination folder. Like below:
This “Confirm File Replace” box has 4 buttons on it.. [...]
Who would have know so many people would realize I missed a weekly roundup?
I got 9 emails and have changed the title of the review. See what kind of influence you can have from speaking up??
(Comment, Comment, Comment!)
Here are our most popular articles from the last two weeks. As usual all the titles have been [...]
Due to a changing of the guard (firing of a junior admin) I am now required to change the local administrator account password on almost 400 XP Pro SP2 Machines today. Oh joy!
Normally I would just open my MMC console connect to each machine and change it… But not on 400 machines that’s just crazy!
Crazy [...]
You know the saying, “You can’t have too much RAM or too much storage.”
Well, there is at least one case where a lot of RAM can cause problems.
My current desktop had 1 Gig of RAM and I recently bought an additional 2 Gigs since the price was so low. (And of course I used [...]
So I have been enjoying my new 21″ Mac for a few months now all content with my Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection in beta. But as of 3/31/08 the beta is expired! As you can see below:
You would think it was no big deal. And it wasn’t until today. If I clicked continue using beta [...]
We know you wonder what goes on behind the scenes on your Windows machine. We have covered how to use crafty searches to find out what others have been doing on your machines. We use the task manager all the time to check out running processes, change task priority or to get an over view [...]
Have you ever needed a specific version of an OS for an install?
You need a Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2 CD and you only have SP1?
Have you ever wanted to upgrade your original Windows XP CD to SP2? Or how about SP3??
That is where slipstreaming comes into play. Slipstreaming a service pack saves [...]
Did you know that by pressing Control + any number you can move to that tab? So like below I can press Control + 1 and move to my Web Mail tab. Control + 2 to move to my Barracuda window and Control + 3 to move to my good old Ask The Admin window…
You [...]
Are you tired of navigating to registry keys to make a small modification?
Don’t you wish you could display all your registry search results in one window instead of having to bounce around?
Do you wish you could copy a registry key to the clipboard and select open from clipboard…
To actually have the program navigate to that [...]
Have you ever needed to sync files between two or more machines?
Have you wanted to also have an off-site copy of those files?
Have you needed to sync files between Windows and Macintosh machines?
Have you wanted to have a public photo album to share pictures with your friends and family?
Have you needed a shared on-line file [...]
I just could not pass this one up guys! My entire dev team is rolling on the floor RIGHT NOW! We have not see such a response since Weird Al’s “I’m White and Nerdy!”
Here are the lyrics for the non-YouTube users…But you have to see this for the full effect. Think Kanye West meets SEO [...]
Check out my side of this panicked phone call from the early morning junior admin.
“What do you mean the backup did not run last night?”
“Why exactly wouldn’t the tape drive be plugged into the same UPS as the library?”
“His WHAT was plugged into the ups? His cell phone? Why wouldn’t you move it?”
“Yeah, yeah yeah, [...]
So are you wondering why you would want to save your searches?
Think about it… How would you like the ability to dynamically find the items you need with a saved search? So the boss called and said – I need all the purchase orders less than a months old and tagged Smith?
How about Power Point [...]
We covered Toast 8 a little while back for the Mac and now here we are with our upgraded version 9 Titanium…
Lets show you what’s new so you can decide if its worth a $60 upgrade or to justify the $80 ($100 minus a $20 rebate) retail box.We will also have a contest for YOU [...]
I love getting stuff in the mail and this weekend HP sent us a review unit of their HP Media Vault mv5140. So this box is suppose to not only make all of my documents shareable to password protected accounts in house and via the web, create a photo sharing website AND be a [...]
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