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
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Business, Career
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
Laptop, Weekend Warrior, Windows
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.
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A very clean export from Wordpress.com and import to wordpress 2.2.2 blog hosted on A Small Orange.
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Meaningless technical tidbit, but if Computer Associates (CA) is good enough for Microsoft’s coders, why not the rest of us? Mark Russinovich in a recent blog posting.
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Songs purchased on the iTunes Store can be copied to an unlimited number of computers. However, only five computers at a time can play your iTunes DRM-protected music*.
You can enable a computer to play your purchased music by authorizing it. You can remove a computer from the authorization list by deauthorizing it. Deauthorizing your computer does not erase your music files; it simply prevents your purchased music from playing until you authorize that computer again.
Apple – Support – iTunes Store – Authorization FAQ
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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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Need a “supported hotfix is available…” fix that isn’t generally available on the technet web site? Are you dreading having to call and navigate the Microsoft call prompter (or HP enterprise support) to obtain a supported hotfix? Submit a simple web form to Microsoft and receive a link to the download.
Spat’s WebLog (Steve Patrick) : Get a hotfix — without having to call MS…
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Article explains how to prevent OS X from creating new .DS_Store files when opening folders on remote volumes mounted using SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV. The creation of .DS_Store files (and more so, ._AppleDouble files which are not covered in this hint) is frequently the source of complaints against Mac users, who often leave a trail of these files scattered throughout the file system when “visiting” a Windows computer. Even with this hint in place, the .DS_Store files will continue to be created on local Mac volumes (which is a good thing).
To prevent the creation of these files, open the Terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
It may be necessary to log out and back in, or even to restart the computer (which is what the article states), for the change to take effect.
macosxhints.com – Prevent .DS_Store file creation on network volumes
Macintosh, Weekend Warrior
