Having a good backup and recovery plan is a must for every systems admin, but every day users can greatly benifit from a little preventive maintenence. I for instance, only use Windows for games; every time a hard drive fails or ‘Windows recovery’ wipes out my MBR I have to start from scratch. So this [...]
If your scratching your head as to why you have to manually start NTP(Network Time Protocol) every time you boot into Windows XP, Vista, and 7, you’re not alone. At first I thought this was a bug in Windows 7, but I’m guessing the developers were just being lazy and reused old ‘W32Time’ libs from [...]
I was reading CNN.com today and came across a priceless article about Microsoft. Ahead of their up coming Windows 7 mobile is a new slew of patent lawsuits against Googles Android platform. Below is an excerpt, you can find the whole article here: http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/01/technology/microsoft_motorola/index.htm The nine patents that Motorola (MOT, Fortune 500) allegedly violated involve essential [...]
As the age of the netbook arises; the ability to provision Operating Systems over the network becomes highly useful. More and more these days, it’s less common to see CD/DVD ROM drives in laptops. In my particular situation my laptop DVD-ROM drive failed. This prompted me to embark on journey of sleepless nights, sifting through [...]