Personal IT Experiences

AT&T completed their assimilation of Bellsouth, my home phone service provider for these past 20 years.
My subscriber fees are now increasing. $1.00 a month. Not a big deal but telephone service these days is a commodity and AT&T is still pricing local phone service like they priced their long distance services back in the 1970’s.
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Windows and Linux users have a third party solution for creating and mounting virtual encrypted disks with the utility TrueCrypt. While the developers of TrueCrypt indicate a planned Mac OSX version, it doesn’t appear they’re testing one right now.
As the owner of a spanking new 24″ iMac, I wondered what other encryption utilities were available [...]

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Experienced this problem with HP DL360 servers w/ 2-72GB disks, RAID 1.
After restoring a Windows 2003 DISK image (GHOST image) to the server, able to boot and work with drive C:. Unable to see and access drives E: and F: also thought to have been restored in the DISK image.
Solved by using DiskPart this way:

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You can use the command shell to create and edit batch files (also called scripts) to automate routine tasks. For example, you can use scripts to automate the management of user accounts or nightly backups. You can also use the Windows Script Host, CScript.exe, to run more sophisticated scripts in the command shell. You can [...]

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Works from a command prompt. It extracts files and maintains their target directory structure just like a new install.
Less MSIerables Utility

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