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Carbonite backup and my floppy drive
Recently I switched to Carbonite on two machines at home. After installing the software and starting the backup, I noticed that frequently something would be accessing the floppy drive (or at least trying). Googling around a little bit revealed that this was one of Carbonite’s “features”.
The two suggestions that kept coming up during my search [...]
Nagios – how to determine the name of a service in Windows
I’ve recently set up Nagios on one of our test servers, and the Windows client for Nagios allows you to monitor services (whether they started, stopped, etc.). However, the name of the service to monitor isn’t always the same as the name in the Services application in Administrative Tools.
To find out the name of the [...]
Google Chrome available for download
Google has released their beta browser Chrome for Windows. It distinguishes itself from other browsers by having a very minimalistic design, and some interesting technological features:
The address bar doubles as a search box, history browser and suggestion bar.
The tabs can be dragged out of the browser to create a new window, or multiple tabs can [...]
Installing my XP machine
Wow, it does take some time to reinstall all your software and documents on a new machine. Here’s the list I had to work through:
Software
Windows XP
Service packs
Office 2003
Outlook GTD plugin
Outlook Completed Task!
Blackberry desktop
microTorrent
7Zip
Adobe Reader
APC PowerChute
BOINC
CamStudio
Citrix client
Emergent Task Timer
EverNote
Firefox
Filezilla
Google Updater
HP IP Console viewer
iTunes
iLike Sidebar
Nullsoft Install System
Open Workbench
OpenEdge 10.0B
WinDiff
Windows IIS
Paint.Net
Pidgin
Plaxo Toolbar for Outlook
PuTTY
Shoreware Call manager
Symantec Endpoint Protection
TortoiseSVN
UltraEdit
VirtuaWin
VMWare [...]
100 Things people are really saying about Windows Vista
Microsplot has an interesting article contradicting Microsoft’s slogan “100 Reasons You’ll Be Speechless“. Au contrair, MS. People are talking more than ever about Vista, and not all of it is Wow.
Some of the items are not entirely Microsoft’s fault, such as not supplying disks with a new computer, but the majority of the issues are [...]