Recently setup two enterprise customers with Ninite Pro for keeping browser extensions and other programs on their desktop systems up to date. Keeping extensions up to date by hand when you have more then a handful of machines is a losing battle. While there are other options in the market; Ninite’s price, ease of use, […]
SYSVOL was the last thing using FRS. After spending time on a problem that turned out to be caused by FRS not replicating GPOs I have finally switched to DFS-R for SYSVOL. Used the great instructions here
I kept having default shares disappearing after a server reboot on volumes hosted on iSCSI connected SANS. I added the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServices LanmanServerParametersAutoShare DWORD = 1 value. Turned out to not be the complete answer. On Server 2008 R2 I found the Volumes and Devices tab in the iSCSI initiator. Auto Configure adds the iSCSI volumes […]
This problem still exists on Server 2008 R2 with the newest HP drivers. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319127 At least it is an easy fix.
Last year I posted how I had tried moving from Plex .8 to Plex .9 and switched back to .8 the same night. I have now moved to .9 and plan on leaving it installed. The scrapers are better and when they are wrong you can now edit meta data. One of the biggest things […]
I wish I would have written this up when I thought about it last week. It would have been cooler then posting it after the problem came up on Slashdot today. While in the shower last week and not thinking of anything in particular a thought popped into my head regarding use of a non-incumbent […]
Firefox use this plug-in from the TOR project and EFF to help secure communication with many popular websites. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Android has certainly beat my expectations. After a slow start and in my opinion starting with the 2.x updates Android became a serious competitor for the best mobile device OS available. I have been using a Nexus one for a while now. I run a community compiled ROM and am very happy with it. I […]
Been thinking of deleting my FB account lately, just getting too annoying and heavy handed. For now instead of deleting my FB account I decided I would just cull the herd. I deleted 20 FB friends.
Dear Netflix, Now that you have put a price on a streaming only plan and decided to raise the price of my plan by more then 10% how about you create a disc only (no streaming) option. I don’t even want the full amount of the streaming only plan refunded, maybe just 4 or 5 […]