Guard Your Facebook Privacy
September 14th, 2009
If you’re an experienced user or a newbie to using Facebook, I’ll bet there’s one or two settings in this guide you did not know about. Well worth your time to explore.
Finally! An Official Citrix Doc On TCP/UDP Ports
September 14th, 2009
A 1.0 document dated August 2009. Sheesh! Anyway, if you need help in determining which ports to open for lab and firewall issues, here’s a link to the Citrix document. Don’t forget about port 3389 for your RDP connections.
Economic Outlook Making You Think About Starting Your Own Business?
January 9th, 2009
Do you daydream of leaving behind all your day-to-day turf battles in corporate IT? Think the other side of the fence looks more green?
The recent post in Software By Rob outlines many obvious and not so obvious costs and expenses in starting your own software or consulting business.
After you consider these expenses and overhead, don’t forget you still have to take care of the customers AND scout new business prospects.
Expenses You Don’t Think of When Starting a Business | Software by Rob
Buying or Selling a Macintosh On Ebay or Craigslist
January 9th, 2009
Browsing the used computers for sale on Craigslist this morning, I ran across an ad for a Mac laptop. The seller posted basic information about the computer’s specs in their ad, but does the seller really know what he/she is selling?
How do I know the asking price is realistic, based on the description the seller is providing?
How can I be sure that the computer advertised is the one that I’ll physically take delivery of?
If I was seriously going to pursue the purchase of this computer, this is the information I’d ask the seller for:
- Ask for a screen shot of the Apple Profiler’s Hardware Overview screen. I’m looking for the serial number underlined in this example screen shot.
- With the serial number in hand, visit this Apple link <http://support.apple.com/specs/> and provide the computer’s serial number information.
- This serial number search doesn’t display any personal information about the current owner or indicate warranty status for the hardware.
Now I have more information from which to make a more informed purchasing decision.
If you’re a seller of an Apple computer in the future, why not include this information when you post your ad?
Don’t forget to compare the Ebay or Craigslist prices to Apple’s Refurbished (full warranty) prices <http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/>
Turn on or off your wireless LAN card from a command line or batch file
October 15th, 2008
My trusty Dell C640 laptop with Windows XP doesn’t have a built-in function key sequence for disabling the wireless LAN card.
On a Intel support forum, I ran across this thread and I followed the suggestions for installing the Microsoft DevCon utility and launching an on or off batch file. I’m now using an on and off batch file in conjunction with the free version of the Keybreeze utility
Establish Configuration Logging in Presentation Server 4.5
August 30th, 2007
Record and report all Presentation Server configuration changes. Track changes made to the Presentation Server farm, by whom and at what time to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting. Configuration Logging is invaluable for auditing and ensuring accountability when multiple administrators are maintaining Presentation Server.
A very nice how-to article provided at alsolorzano.com
Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA)
August 30th, 2007
The GPDBPA tool is a stand-alone program that an administrator can run
from a Windows Server 2003-based system or from a Windows XP-based
system. You can use the tool to do the following:
| • | Perform a proactive health check on the Group Policy environment to detect common configuration errors that frequently generate support incidents. |
| • | Collect diagnostic information and initial data from an environment, and then automate some analysis of that data. |
| • | Obtain a snapshot of the Group Policy configuration for archiving. This data may be a useful reference if a future problem occurs. |
To Add or Remove Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Components
August 28th, 2007
From the Start button, select -> Settings -> Control Panel
Select the -> Add or Remove Programs applet
Fromthe list of Currently install programs: click once on Citrix Presentation Server For Windows and click the
Make the changes you need.
FireFox + ScribeFire Add-on = Killer Off-line Blog Editing
August 27th, 2007
For simple off-line blog editing, from either a Mac or Windows platform, I really like the simplicity and efficiency of the ScribeFire add-on for the FireFox browser. I’ve tried Microsoft’s Live Writer beta on Windows and Ecto on the Macintosh.
Completed Blog Move To A Small Orange Hosting
August 27th, 2007
A very clean export from Wordpress.com and import to wordpress 2.2.2 blog hosted on A Small Orange.
