Archives for Misc

Technet Gets Cheaper

Microsoft recently rolled out a new tier of Technet called Technet Standard and what was Technet Plus is now Technet Professional. Microsoft has also released a nifty spreadsheet showing the difference between Standard and Professional. Standard seems to have most of what Professional has, sans the Enterprise versions for $100 less. – Soli Deo Gloria

Monitor Problem from Hell

You probably heard of “DLL Hell”, but I recently experienced “monitor hell”. We had a 30inch Dell WFP3007 attached to a Dell Precision T3400. We shipped the PC offsite and attached the monitor to another Dell T3400. A few weeks went by when the user who has this monitor noted that he could not set [...]

Early Windows 8 Details Leaked

Francisco Martin, a Microsoft Enthusiast, posted several  (now offline, wonder why )confidential pieces of information to his blog on Monday revealing improvements that Microsoft is aiming for with Windows 8.  Read more at Neowin. – Soli Deo Gloria

Free Versions of O&O Software

Here is a link on Slickdeals.net that describes how to get free versions of O&O Defrag 11 Professional, Unerase 2, Clevercache 6 Pro, Safe Erase 2 and DriveLED. – Soli Deo Gloria

Giveaway – EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6

For a limited time: enjoy EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 for free! – Soli Deo Gloria

Get Yourself Organized with Freeware

Having a lot of vacation time on my hands, I decided it was time to organize all my DVDs and CDs for the new year.  I was on the hunt for some freeware and found two really nice programs to help me. The first one is called Ant Movie Catalog.  Working from just a CSV list [...]

Old Apple Games

I saw someone at work playing the old Apple game Oregon Trail over the lunch break through their web browser @ VirtualApple. They have this and many other classic Apple games from the late 80s. Enjoy! – Soli Deo Gloria

Web site issues

Update 10/8/09: All files should be restored.   As the DNS propagation takes place, there should be less hits at Dreamhost and more here.  I will likely shutdown down the Dreamhost site by Saturday night. Update 10/7/09: I moved the web site to a new web host called Sharkspace tonight because Dreamhost kept fooling around and [...]

Paragon Partition Manager 9.5 Personal Edition for Free

Until midnight tonight, go grab it quick! http://dottech.org/freebies/7958 – Soli Deo Gloria

-1 for Xerox Tech Support

Tech support is really getting bad these days: my latest encounter was with Xerox tech support.  We have a Xerox 8830 plotter in our engineering department.  This is a printer that can do really large size drawings. We’ve be using Windows XP 32-bit for some time, but as we all know: 32-bit can’t address more [...]