Citrix – Remove the annoying ‘Microsoft XPS Document Writer’ printer, or ‘Send to Onenote”

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’

1,000 times more sensitive to light: How graphene camera sensors could revolutionize photography

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, …

Dealing slow performance of Robocopy in windows 2008 R2

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 …

How to force windows 2008 server to crash dump

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 …

Wozniak’s Predictions for 2013: The Data Center, Mobility and Beyond

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 …

GoDaddy-hosted websites down; company working on a fix

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 …