December 30, 2010 1:46 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
?,
É,
keyboard layout,
microsoft,
my keyboard is stuck,
unicode,
wikipediaHow many times do i run into this where I hit the " ? " and I get an " É " its so annoying, annoying enough for me to blog about it... basically your keyboard has shifted into Unicode. To get it out of that mode, just hit(not literally, I know your upset right now) and hold shift, then press...
December 27, 2010 11:57 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
android,
Apple,
CNET,
HD,
iPhone 4,
microsoft,
Samsung Galaxy S,
smartphoneSeems like the Android has finally taken off, with only a few phones at the beginning of the year, now the end of 2010 and we have dozens. Samsung has release one of the better phones, although expensive, the Galaxy S.
Android phones are for the guys that refuse to conform to Apple, Blackberry,...
December 2, 2010 1:35 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
address blocks,
Cisco,
Cisco Press,
IANA,
ICANN,
internet addresses,
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority,
IP,
IPv4,
IPv6,
microsoft,
Windows 7What? Is this true? Will we actually have to start learning IPv6? Well that is definitely what its starting to look like. Based on the below information there are only 7 blocks left.
Yesterday, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA, part of ICANN), allocated two blocks of 16.8...
November 19, 2010 2:26 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
Active Directory,
dc dies,
Dcpromo,
manual removal of dc,
microsoft,
Petri,
remove domain controller,
Windows Server 2000,
Windows Server 2003,
Windows Server 2008What do you do if a Domain Controller dies and cannot be revived? Just deleting it from Active Directory won't do it.
There is only one thing you can do, remove it forcibly.
Petri has an article that can help...
November 5, 2010 12:17 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
cloud computing,
hosted,
Mark,
microsoft,
Microsoft Download Center,
MVP,
sysinternals,
webcast,
Windows AzureHave you heard of it? Well I have more than a few times from an MVP at EPIC. Essentially Windows Azure is a new platform for running applications on a scalable, reliable hosting framework.
Over at the Microsoft Download Center, they have an Introduction to Windows Azure. The topics walk you...
October 27, 2010 12:45 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
ie 9 download manager,
IE9,
ie9 download speed,
Internet Explorer 9,
microsoft,
Windows 7,
Windows VistaHere is a short but sweet one, a lot of people have been asking me, "How to check the actual download speed of downloads using Internet Explorer 9". I myself love watching download speeds, the more numbers flying around the better, kind of like instant gratification. Anyways onto the answer, just...
October 22, 2010 2:42 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
ESX,
Internet Explorer 9 Beta,
microsoft,
PCoIP,
view client fails to connect,
view client stick,
vmware,
vmware view 4.5 and internet explorer 9,
Windows,
Windows 7 SP1 BetaIt just doesn't work... no matter what the settings, there is something in IE9 includes an updated networking library that causes View Client to fail. You may get an error message or you may get nothing but a stuck view client, in which you need to use task manager and end the process. The process...
October 21, 2010 5:29 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
64-bit,
Image Resizer,
image resizing,
microsoft,
resize image,
right-click image resize,
Windows 7,
Windows Vista,
Windows XPHey eveyone, there is a new release of Image Resizer, v2.1.1 If you guys do not know what this is, its a clone of the Windows XP Power Toy, right click on a picture and resize, its that easy.
Release Notes
This is a clone of the Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP -- a PowerToy that allows...
October 9, 2010 4:02 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
android,
BlackBerry,
CNET,
curve,
google,
microsoft,
motorola,
smartphone,
Torch,
Windows Phone 7Well I for one loved the Motorola Q with its Windows Mobile platform, mind you this was about 2 years before the first Blackberry Curve was released. Once I got my Curve though, things definitely changed, I don't think I'd ever go back. But who knows, if I cannot get my hands on a Torch I might...
