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IE7Pro updated to version 2.0

4 years ago

by jayb

This looks flipping sweet! I like firefox, but I do like IE7 more. The biggest thing going for firefox is the extensions. IE7Pro adds features to IE that mirror some of the best extensions for firefox. Check it out. IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of [...]

How to convert a MKV file to PS3 & Xbox 360 compatible format without quality loss

4 years ago

by jayb

The software is called GOTsent and their website is http://sentry23.googlepages.com/ Everyone who wants to use their Next-Gen console as a media center in addition to playing games received an early Christmas gift last month when DivX support was added to both the PlayStation 3 and the XBOX360. [...]

Convert PDF to Word with “Free PDF to Word Doc Converter”

4 years ago

by jayb

I’ll have to try this at work tomorrow. We’ve always purchased the full adobe acrobat just to convert pdf files to word documents. Description: Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is a small, free program that can convert PDF files into DOC files used by MS Word. It can handle all elements of a PDF [...]

Which KB articles resolve the most Directory Services issues?

4 years ago

by jayb

This article by askds contains a lot of good links related to directory services. Hi, Craig here. It can be frustrating to call support only to have your issue resolved by an article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. Sometimes you are just happy to get the problem solved, but most people prefer to [...]

Storage VMotion webpage

4 years ago

by jayb

We haven’t upgraded to 3.5 yet, but I’m going to have to check this out once we upgrade. Storage VMotion simplifies array migration and upgrade tasks and reduces I/O bottlenecks by moving running virtual machines to the best available storage resource in your environment. But There was one downside [...]

Email someone a SMS text message

4 years ago

by jayb

If you ever need to text someone on their phone and you’re at a computer you can actually send one through your email account. Just send an email to their address below based on their phone service: Verizon: 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com AT&T: 10digitphonenumber@txt.att.net Sprint: [...]

UltraDefrag v1.2.3

4 years ago

by jayb

if it uses the window defrag API how can it be faster than the built in windows defrag? UltraDefrag is an Open Source disk defragmentation tool that offers fast defragmenting using a kernel based driver. It offers a simple GUI with a cluster map display, as well as a command-line interface and [...]

PassPack – Free online password manager software

4 years ago

by jayb

Has anyone used this service? PassPack. I want to check how long they’ve been around. Storing all your passwords in one place….if that one account gets hacked your scr@wed… Can you count how many passwords you have? Managing the literally hundreds of passwords that one must remember can be a royal [...]

Calculating VMware HA Failover Capacity

4 years ago

by jayb

Our new ESX cluster has 3 Dell 2950 Servers with 12,16, and 32 GB of ram. From this article I need to look into making them all 32GB. Most readers probably know that VMware High Availability (or VMware HA) is the feature of VMware Infrastructure 3 that allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be [...]

ESX3: Storage Health Check

4 years ago

by jayb

You can easily check the health of your storage by looking under the /proc filesystem in the service console. The directory /proc/vmware/scsi/vmhbaX/ where X refers to your HBA number contains virtual files which correspond to LUNs on that HBA. Using "cat" you can view the contents of these and [...]