Have questions, here are some answers: Questions! When can I buy one?! Beginning in 2014, there will be multiple SteamOS machines to choose from, made by different manufacturers. I’m pretty happy with my PC Gaming setup, do I have to buy a new piece of hardware now? No. Everything that we’ve been doing on …
Issue Want to remove the ‘Microsoft XPS Document Writer’ printer Resolution To remove the ‘Microsoft XPS Document Writer’ printer within Windows Server 2008, run the following command: cscript C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnmngr.vbs -d -p “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” This command can be used for any other local printer that needs to be removed, eg. ‘Send to OneNote’
If you haven’t heard of “ThePianoGuys” you need to rush over to youtube.com and listen to this now. https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePianoGuys/videos some of my favorites: http://youtu.be/FGyIBnzJiyU http://youtu.be/rIBRcQdzWQs http://youtu.be/jzF_y039slk OK, back to tech stuff..
Read this last night on news.google.com taken from: http://theweek.com/article/index/245052/1000-times-more-sensitive-to-light-how-graphene-camera-sensors-could-revolutionize-photography Graphene really has so many potential uses and this one in particular sounds very interesting You probably aren’t too familiar with graphene, but you soon will be. Basically, it’s a two-dimensional arrangement of carbon atoms fit together like a honeycomb. Each sheet is just one-atom thick, …
Wow, The USA must be slipping, India beat us to creating the worlds first smartphone for the blind. The surface of the device uses shape memory technology and raises to form into text, pictures and braille. Ok this has to be the coolest thing i have ever heard of. Read the whole story here: …
Ran into this on my current engagement, here is the rundown: source server windows 2008 (non R2) Destination Windows 2008 R2 Robocopy with the following commands: robocopy \\”source server”\E$\”source path” \\”destination server”\d$\”destination path” /e /mir /XD “$RECYCLE.BIN” “System Volume Information” “pagefile.sys” /sec /MON:1 /np /mt /tee /log:c:\logs\backup_log.txt I used the version of robocopy …
If you need a crashdump to troubleshoot an issue with Windows that isn’t resulting in BSOD (lets say your logon does not complete and hangs on “loading user settings” or some such madness) you can use this process to force a crashdump for analysis. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff545499(v=vs.85).aspx please don’t use this to toy with your junior …
I ran across this article this morning, read it here, or follow the link to slashdot http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/wozniaks-predictions-for-2013-the-data-center-mobility-and-beyond/ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak predicts great things for data centers in 2013, along with an interesting take on BYOD. Tech icon Steve Wozniak has come forward with several predictions for 2013, with data center technologies an important …
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Godaddy went down this morning (around 10:30am) and with it took down millions of sites. Apparently this was caused by Anonymous. Read about it here: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-godaddy-sites-down-20120910,0,3446985.story Also here: http://twitter.com/GoDaddy and here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-of-sites/ I have been monitoring the DNS related woes and it appears that the DNS is back online and replicating (at …