Archives for August 2005

Windows Vista

Microsoft recently announced the next version of Windows will be called Windows Vista. August 24th will mark the 10th anniversary of the launch of Windows 95. I remember that era very well. I was running Windows 3.1 on DOS 6.22 on a 486SX/33. When my mom went shopping at the supermarket I would always go [...]

BSOD Land

One Friday morning several months ago I encountered a very perplexing problem. A bunch of tickets called into the Help Desk about Windows 2000 machines BSODing. BSOD = Blue Screen of Death: a techie’s favorite (or not so favorite) term to describe a dead Windows machine. We determined that a patch pack pushed out the [...]

Universal Network Boot Disk

What better way is there to compliment your new universal Ghost image and impress your boss then a universal network boot disk? A PXE server? OK, so maybe it’s not the greatest thing in the world, but it sure beats carrying around lots of floppies with you. Not to digress, but why is it that [...]

Removing Spyware Part Deux

Over the weekend I added a new article to my web site called The Battle Against Spyware. I use some of the tricks that Mark Russinovich used in his TechEd talk and a few of my own. Check it out. – Soli Deo Gloria