A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
I am always writing documentation and creating screen shots. Today, I came across a new (to me) application which does a great job taking screen shots. In addition to being quite feature rich, the application is completely free to download, using a GNU GPL (general public license). The new screen shot capturing application is called […]
I recently upgraded to the latest version of Apple OS X. Mostly, the experience was positive, but one gotcha was that my scroll bars disappeared. I realize that the scrolling functionality remained, you could still use the multi-touch trackpad to control window scrolling. But, I liked the visual clues given by the scroll bars. For […]
Today, I was cleaning up some old USB thumb drives and thought I found some “new pictures” which were not on my laptop. So, I copied the “new pictures” to my local hard drive and reformatted the thumb drive. Looking around, I figured out that these new items were not new at all — they […]
Yesterday, I needed to extend some 2008R2 drives that were used by Exchange mailboxes. As I went through this process, I remembered blogging previously about extending volumes in Server 2003. See this post: https://www.orionscache.com/2012/01/extending-the-windows-system-drive/. I realized those steps don’t exactly apply, and I had a couple of emails asking me to be more specific with […]
So, yesterday I needed to find a WIFI printer that was attached to the network, but whose IP address I did not have. I realize I could have opened the Apple Airport Utility to see what WIFI IPs were in use. But, this utility does not show the IPs attached via Ethernet, and it’s only […]
So, I remoted into a customer site the other day, setting up a new blade HP bl460 blade server. I entered iLO (integrated lights out management) to validate settings, because I wanted HP EBIPA (which works a little like a DHCP server running in the chassis) to configure static IP addresses. I exited iLO thereafter, […]
Yesterday, one of my small business customers called and left a frantic, cryptic message. That was unusual for several reasons. First, the customer normally emails me. Second, the person who contacted me was someone I had never spoken to before. So, what was so urgent? Their email was down. No, wait, their entire Internet service […]
Well, DOS scripting is not dead. Today, I had another reason to jump down to the DOS prompt and write a little scripting code. Basically, I was attempting to automate an installation which had several pieces and this was the easiest avenue to completion. Dusting off old DOS command knowledge, I figured out that I […]
Yesterday, someone at work laughed at my cell phone — “It’s so tiny!” And, that reminded me that the accompanying bill was equally tiny. What’s my cell phone secret? Basically, because I wanted an unlocked dual-SIM phone so that I could use European SIM cards, I thought I was stuck with AT&T domestic service. But, […]
So, this morning one of my friends excitedly told me that they had purchased an Apple MacBook Pro. Now, they wanted to move all their files and pictures from their old Windows 7 computer. Did they have to create a virtual machine running Windows to do this? Not at all! You can copy files directly […]