July 29, 2011 2:17 PM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
I have recently setup steady state at home for a internet terminal that I am not worried about connecting to my network. The friends and aquantiances can use it, I can use it for testing software or searching on sites that are not very reputable.
When the session is over and the system is...
July 29, 2011 2:15 PM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
Here is a nifty shortcut tip:
type in the website you want to view (for example asktheadmin) and hit control and enter and watch the magic.
It will automatically add the http://www and the .com!
July 29, 2011 2:08 PM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
Have you heard of bootable media? How about live operating systems like Ubuntu or Knoppix? If someone has physical access to your server and can reboot it and boot to a CD or DVD then you might be in for some real trouble. All of the servers unencrypted data will be readily available to the...
July 29, 2011 2:05 PM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
If you never installed a partition on your server with the Windows Recovery Console and your server failed - it is not too late!
You can still get to the recovery console by booting to the installation disk of Windows 2003 or 2008 and attempting a "Repair."
From in here you can also repair...
July 29, 2011 10:31 AM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
Human error plays a huge role in computer and network failures. If you have a frequently done task and it can be scripted - script it!
There is far less of a chance of a script screwing something up then a administrator fat fingering a command and doing some administrator level...
July 29, 2011 10:28 AM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
I find myself from time to time stumbling across networks and companies that fail to keep their applications and servers up to date. This is a big no-no as it makes you an easy target for hackers.
By not updating you are leaving gaping KNOWN holes in your systems. Make sure everything is up to...
July 29, 2011 10:19 AM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
We recently upgraded the office to Office 2010. This has give us a handful of new features. We can see related messages, users social network status and more BUT... I know you knew that there was a but coming...
It crashes and it crashes often! You need a minimum of 2gb of memory just for office...
July 26, 2011 1:04 PM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
WindowsI deal with a lot of migrating files and folders as we update our servers and network attached storage. In doing so I normally script xcopy or xxcopy to do the hard work. When I am complete how do I know that the files are the same? I can right click on the folders and compare the results. But I...
July 19, 2011 1:37 PM
Posted by: Karl Gechlik
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. You can grab a copy of it from this URL.
On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
•The directory list, which...
