The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional and Community Leader
Oh man, a Microsoft (M$) MVP! What should I expect from this kind of person. Man, get a life and read some books, you are just a damn piece of the Matrix!
I thought the problem with stealing is that there is an injured (or stolen from) party. The music industry is doing great, 90% of music downloaded is done so illegally. Money is still being spent on music. People are going to more concerts and the music people are downloading is stuff they would not pay for anyway.
There is a video from the editor of wired I watched on their website, if it's not their it'll be on youtube somewhere I'm sure, he's also wrote a book about it. going into detail about the above.
This situation is very different from stealing a car. And as a Canadian judge ruled, is far more like photocopying a page from a book in a library.
Back when I was a computer support technician I used to carry a binder of CDs and DVDs, including (but
My wife’s 17” HP Pavillion laptop broke; when I say that it broke I do not mean that the OS crashed or
I think this article is screaming for a picture of the damaged laptop
I might hav taken it as I have two busted laptops at home both unusable and one of them happens to be an HP that I would have jimmied the MoBo into if it fit.
Hey, I was wondering if you could add OS' like 98se, XP and so on that do not have 'identifiable Operating Systems' when trying to import the ISO images... If you know of a workaround that would be fantastic
Mitch, you are doing some amazing work--sorry I missed you on your last trip to the West Coast.
Very valid rebuttal. That's why you're an MVP! You certainly know the technology.
a good, well thought out article and hits almost all nails on the head. However I do disagree on one point, that being the UI being no mean hardship for a user past ten minutes. You obviously have never watched a pensioner who struggled but endured xp attempt to adapt to the new UI.
To not have a "classic option" dotted in the relevent places is a little unthoughtful really. I'm more the adept with using various operating systems and for the most part have dealt with the UI change. While I prefered a classic start menu I am okay with the new style. But to not at least include the tickbox to disable program scrolling miffed me. It's not a lot to ask really imo.
Remember some people struggle like hell with computers, it's like an alien concept to them. Microsoft could cater for these people a little more sometimes. I was equally disapointed in this regard when they started shuffling the UI and folder locations in Vista because to me it didn't render them more accessible, it was just something else to remember everytime the computer got turned on. For me a minor gripe but for older generations it's a huge turnoff.
Mitch,
4MB footprint! Other than that, perfection!!!!!!!!!
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What a great feature! I have not been able to try this out yet but as soon as I get Bluetooth for my PC I'm going to use it! Thanks for sharing this fantastic tip!
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Andy
Windows Canada
Mitch, this feature sounds great.
Thanks,
Linda
I had to deploy a new DC at work to take advantage of some of the management capabilities supplied in Server 2008 R2 (Powershell Active Directory Modules) but wanted this DC to be Special. Yep “Special”. I wanted a REAL DC. CORE. Secure. Restricted. Bet
This just solved a HUGE problem for one of my customers!
Thanks for spreading the word Mitch.
Excellent post Mitch. You educated me today because my Texas experience, it has appeared that Verizon was light-years ahead of ATT.
Good work. I'm looking forward to reading your blog more frequently.
Cheers,
After i update the deployment share i create a new media and the result is a list of empty folders with no content. what a i doing wrong i followed the instructions to the letter added windwos Xp and windows 7 along with their tasks.
Nice post... Looks like solid state memory is really starting to take off. Hopefully we'll start seeing decreasing solid-state drive prices real soon. 5 dollar 32 GB Micro SDs for your DS flash card... sounds good to me!<br><br>(Submitted by NDSBro for R4i Nintendo DS.)
awesome feature...smart move, but i dont have multiple exchange accounts. im not that cool...
Thanks for this article - I've struggled for a long time to keep on top of three different exchange server accounts and I'm excited to put this functionality to the test. Currently, my solution is running three different virtual machines just to solve this problem.
Excellent article Mitch, especially the part about checking with the finance department.
Welcome to the joy of carrying everything you need on one machine. It's great to have both options on one fantastic piece of hardware.
Dave
Mitch, can't you download the file in Mac and then boot into Windows and install it. You should be able to read your mac os from windows but not write to it by default
But in this scenario (which works great - thanks) how do reminders work? Primary account? Secondary account? Tertiary .... or all accounts?
I guess it proved, as I predicted, to be not so essential after all. Microsoft attributes the discontinuation to "new IT trends" but the product is less than two years old and the trends were taking shape long before that. In fact, in the post linked
Microsoft is discontinuing its Essential Business Server (EBS) product family , company officials said
Very interesting situation. My thoughts/comments in not particular order:
The onus is always on each of us to protect our privacy. We can do a lot; then we hope the powers that be - i.e. government, credit card companies retailers - do their best to secure the confidential information they are given.
Connection between senior management, front line troops and training. I'm not a lawyer, but I think that if you had sold the video footage you accidentally acquired or been infected and exposed to fraud, you would a. be probably sued by the couple and b. have a case against the store. You wonder if corporate counsel has foreseen that eventuality? If they have then you wonder whether they formulated a policy to deal with the issue. And if they did, have they communicated the policy down to managers & front line troops? Doesn't sound like they have done any of it...Maybe corporate counsel is a dinosaur who is barely familiar with technology.
Danger lurks in the most unexpected areas. Your blog post reminded me of an article in the Toronto Star about a similar situation with the hard drive & memory in photocopying machines. They interviewed a tech at a leasing company who explained that almost every machine that is returned at the end of the lease has a memory full of images of all the documents scanned & copied over the course of the lease - contracts, lawsuits, employee reviews - you name it. No one thinks or reformatting the hard drive of the photocopier - just like few people think of reformatting the hard drive of a video camera...
I had thought of doing a blog post about the copier. Now I'll do the blog post for sure and add your story to it as well.
Johanna
If your e-mail server is managed by Videotron, Rogers, Bell, Hotmail, or any of the myriad services that
I guess it proved, as I predicted, to be not so essential after all. Microsoft attributes the discontinuation to "new IT trends" but the product is less than two years old and the trends were taking
What was the judgment or final resolution in this case?
finally, man for my business clients this is a huge help. Also as a computer technician for managing exchange servers i have accounts with all my clients to help them through things, this is a god send.
What exact iso and files do you copy to the usb device. I get the bootup screen when booting up from my usb device but it asks me for network share authentication. How does it find the files on the usb device.
Great article. Thank you for sharing.
Great Article
warning: this thing formats all partitions before installing
I was listening to the news tonight, PBS no less, and one of the reporters used the term "more healthy" instead of the correct term, which is "healthier".
This trend started in the 80's and TV journalists are the worse. Rant and Rave... but it will not do any good.
Whether I like it or not the usage of the English language is changing. Unlike French, English is a language that is constantly changing.
Hi there,
I am an IT professional and am quite heavily involved in Virtualization, however have little experience in VMWare and XenApp and Citrix as a whole. All my experience is based on HyperV. As this is a fairly new technology relatively speaking, I have about as much experience on it as I can. I have been building HyperV clusters for clients for some time now and feel that I am becoming a bit of a specialist. Some of the time we build the clusters on SAS storage, at other times SANs so I feel - from that perspective I should be relatively well prepared. I would like to increase my worth, not only to my current employer, but also to potential employers and I think this qualification will be a good next step. I have been involved primarily with security and networking in the past and feel that this will make me a more well rounded engineer - with an eye on becoming an Architect. Do you think this is a reasonable way yo go in terms with Microsoft qualification? Also, I know when a qualification is new within the realm of MS, it is very difficult to find training material.
Do you have any ideas for me?
Mitch, another 4G device has turned up overseas. Apple is losing all kinds of stuff these days.
What bothers me is, why is it beta still and why is it separate from the SkyDrive? Why can't I have 5 GB out of my 25 GB on SkyDrive allocated for the Mesh so I could access my Mesh desktop directly from my "Home Live" page?
I don't have to copy ISO file right?
Thanks for posting your trials and tribulations, which you encountered on your way to getting your black belt.
Congratulations on a job well done.
Bravo zulu, Mitch! Glad to hear it all turned out!
Great to see you at TechEd last week as well!
Bets
Hi Mitch,
It is great article and I am thinking if convenient I might get my Windows Server 2008 certified in the future. Here I really appreciate our Windows Server 2003 study group under your leadership during I was in Montreal. I wish you best.
By the way, I have moved back to Edmonton AB from London Ontario in this July and since then I have applied a Senior Database Analyst position for Grant MacEwan University and submit your name as one of my references.
Thank you very much.
Best Regards,
Don
P.S. My contact:
Email: ydonald2006@yahoo.ca Tel:780-461-8787
FYI re McDonald's coffee: the woman was about 80 years old, and had 3rd degree burns that required skin grafts. She was in the hospital for over a week and weighed about 80 lbs at the end of treatment. McDonalds had been asked repeatedly and even sued about the temperature of the coffee. The woman asked them to pay her medical bills and only sued when they refused. And she got less than $600K.
That case has been a rallying cry for US tort reformers, but it's really a bad example - probably most people who knew all the facts would think mickey's deserved to lose.
What's funny nowadays is it you Tweet about some bad service at Company x some person at HQ who is assigne to follow Tweets referring to company X may contact you almost immediately about it. Probably wouldn't help on a boat, but it has happened to me in regards to 2 fortune 500 companies.
I restaurants, transportation and housing you need to make your feelings known. Sometime owners and managers are absent and do not know the image their employees are projecting. Management needs to know because a bad impression sticks and businesses do fail when there is poor customer relations. I make my impressions known through surveys, direct contact and contacting their franchise office.
Brilliant guide really :D
I've been looking for a decent install media since I started messing about with service pack integrations and nlite'ing windows XP, and now I've found it :)
I've made an USB WXP installer before, but that was rather painful. With this it wasn't a lot of work :)
Same thing here. Total image size is 31 MB, and I set this up with Windows 7 32 bit., Windows 7 64 bit and XP(I would expect it to be 'slightly' bigger.). Are you still monitoring this blog? The only thing I have done differently than your tutorial is that I DID include the key, since these are all enterprise licenses, and I skipped the part about adding any new software or drivers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!