JT on April 8th, 2008

I use the command line a fair amount of time because its a quick and easy way to perform small tasks with different input. Like DNS lookups using dig, or FTP just to grab a quick file without having to configure yet another FTP profile in my FTP client.
Telnet is one that I truly [...]

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JT on March 18th, 2008

Vista SP1 was released this morning, but didn’t show up anywhere except on the tech news channels. A visit to Microsoft’s site had nar a mention of it anywhere - not even their Vista area. After some digging, I finally found it.

Choose the x86 version or the 64-bit version depending on your version of [...]

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JT on March 13th, 2008

I’ve been running into a few problems with Vista and management pack from Microsoft. I use my workstation to manage different domains for clients, so I’m neither a member of the domain nor am I looking to join any of them.
Problem:
The first problem was after I installed the Windows 2003 Management tools was that [...]

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JT on September 17th, 2007

In my day to day work, I’ve gotten into the same routine. I’ve come to accept the OS I use for what it is, a utilitarian tool to get a job done. As you can probably guess I migrated back to Windows for the time being because of a few quirks with linux. I still [...]

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JT on June 4th, 2007

ZDnet reports that HP has stepped up and called Intel and Microsoft out.
Intel’s latest technology buzzword “Turbo Memory” is an extra 1GB of memory added onto the latest Centrino line of laptop motherboards. This memory is split into two 512MB partitions of space and used by Microsoft Vista to improve read/write access to hard [...]

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