small, handy vbscript to get your product id back from a working sharepoint installation.
if you never liked the way 10.6 started representing volume/file sizes.
recommendations for turning paper, images, audio, and video into digits. plus, storage and optimization tricks.
key phrase being "beats audio review". analysis of exactly what beats by dre is, and how it figures into audio devices.
yet another reason to be content without jailbreak.
this forum member has done a /really/ good job of covering everything i'd tell a new touchpad owner, and more. regularly updated!
strong contender for worst first-party integrated solution, ever.
yeah, that might be an issue. fortunately, sp2010 has made patching a touch easier (no more separate foundation/server cumulative updates after aug 2011)
spoilers ahead for those who don't follow the show...
so, reporting services (current version) doesn't support sql aliases. wonderful.
the win8 dev preview isn't all that friendly with just a mouse and keyboard. this should help out a bit.
yet another argument against monolithic solutions.
found a workflow history list with ~300k items in it. had to whittle it down 1k rows at a time using this invaluable utility.
most comprehensive, easy-to-do process for...well, says it on the package.
source for the dexter infographic. current for all of season 5
it's all in norwegian. some dude translated the basics of the story each track from the self-titled release is about.
the jeopardy prodigy on what it's like to face a non-human competitor
baseline knowledge on a topic presented with pictures and links to deeper topics, narrated by a generated voice. excellent way to quickly learn about something
automatically figure out if your local dns servers are faster than free, public ones like offerings from google and opendns.
the lorem ipsum of images. http://dummyimage.com/[w]x[h]/[bgcolor]/[fgcolor].[format]&[text]
gizmodo gives you at least 100 reasons to ditch the earbuds that came with your mp3 player.
the one missing piece of fully-automated tv show downloading.
for an object model, sharepoint isn't very object-oriented. works for all list members, as well.
best tv show ever. now there's no need to wait for the right camera angle to pause and guess what the random paraphernalia is.
much simpler and yet, more customizable than most css optimizers.
for posterity's sake. i think i search for this exact article about once a week when chasing down failure audits.
lots of crazy configuration whitepapers with screenshots and everything!
hey, look at that. a site dedicated to free, original ringtones that actually sound like regular notifications. amazing.
wow...cheat sheets, wallpapers, reference guides...addedbytes (formerly ilovejackdaniels.com) was good, but this looks even better!
good portion of these are freeware. great to download for a laugh (or in the case of cave story, complete obsession).
simulate colorblindness when designing web pages. sadly, requires the adobe air runtime. we'll forgive it, though, in the name of accessibility.
doesn't get easier than this to figure out your target audience for the web's newest favorite buzzword.
ugh. everywhere else on the internet says "don't do it! it's stupid!" well...if i'm tasked to do it, i need to know how. you hear me, microsoft mvps? if you made it an option, have the damn documentation.
holy crap...installing the wss extensions for visual studio is a royal pain. here's the dummy's guide to post-install configuration.
interesting test of where your honesty and morality gauges fall.
excellent reference for screwing around with the api for ldap. saved my ass this morning when google couldn't find a 12-number-long, negative error number.
about damn time, microsoft. it specialists: get this now - powershell 2.0 finally adds some much needed remoting support.
once upon a time, i did this manually. had i known about this service, would've done this instead. hope these guys add more support for other services.
there had to be an insane amount of work put into this. simpler, interstate-only version deep linked.
the big deal over the holiday season was that i got my parents a new mac mini to replace their 5-6 year old windows xp box. i even went ahead and loaded a copy of vmware fusion so i could p2v the old box, ensuring an easy migration from old to new. they absolutely loved it, and after a week’s worth of use, admitted that they hadn’t even fired up vmware to get into their old stuff.
after the gift deployment, we took inventory of windows-specific programs they used, and the best course of action for each. one that they relied on specifically was acrobat professional. after asking what they used it for, they came up with: scanning images directly to pdf, adding/deleting/rearranging pages, adding off-page and on-page comments, and highlighting text. mac users have had the privilege of the built-in preview app for awhile now, which takes care of all these things, so that was one fewer software package for them to buy during the transition. i gave them a quick run-through, which thoroughly impressed them.
being a newer mac, it came loaded with lion. lion has that new auto-save/versions feature. it is a terrible, horrible, scumbag feature that is poorly advertised, poorly implemented, and—as i’ve learned in the last 48 hours—not even consistent between applications. especially this one:
mom calls on wednesday. she admits to being hyper-frustrated about pages in a pdf she’s been compiling that have “gone missing.” i fire up screen sharing to see what’s up. the sidebar of her combined pdf shows 20-ish pages, but only the last five have actual thumbnails. the rest of the pages have a thumbnail that says “pdf” and content that says “pdf.” must be a versions thing, i thought, so i showed her how versions works. sure enough, i watched pages reappear as we looked at past versions.
obvious methods of getting those old pages didn’t work, e.g. dragging a page from the old version into the new version. i outlined a method by which she could make a few copies of the pdf, restore each to the version that had the most number of pages from the past, then merge all the copies together. there honestly wasn’t an easier method i could conjure up after 45 minutes of screwing around with it, so she agreed she’d do it on friday, when she had the day off.
a friday call prompted me to drop into screen sharing with her again, and every single past version of her pdf had been wiped, as if they didn’t exist. this is not how auto-save was advertised. so she starts the process over using my recommended procedure: open image capture to get all the pages first, then reorganize them in preview. this worked out much better than anticipated, and now that she has a workflow, i figured case closed. of course, the culprit (auto-deleting, auto-saved previous versions of the original pdf) was still at large.
imagine my surprise when, of course, mom decides to drop into a help file and find this:
that’s right, folks. versions doesn’t really do what it says on the tin—it cleans up after 24 hours, regardless.
apple: folks honestly aren’t ready for this…especially when it’s not obvious which apps have versions enabled. having large blocks of text in what used to be your save dialog is not going to make people “get it”, either. explain exactly what “save a version” means to people (“commit”, like in svn) and slowly, responsibly break them of their compulsive need to hit command-s every five minutes.
year-end playlist. sorry it’s not on spotify, but two very key artists (the weeknd and dlc) are not.
it’s not like it has to be said. please write/call your representatives.
holy crap…this dude culled multiple sources for their aotys from 2007 forwards, then linked all of them to spotify, rdio, etc. time to play a bit of catch-up.
after two codes unsuccessfully redeemed, i still can’t figure out why i now need two accounts (one xbl, one ea/origin) to play battlefield 3 online.
come up with a system administrator/engineer equivalent to the term “brogrammer”. because i’m wearing aviators, chugging a rockstar zero, raging on sharepoint, and listening to dubstep. (okay, that last part is a lie…i just loaded up darkest hour’s “undoing ruin”, one of the best overall metal albums in existence)
who has two thumbs and got a signed vinyl copy of fitz and the tantrums’ “pickin’ up the pieces”? this guy.
i think i just realized i don’t /dislike/ android - i just can’t stand the default droid sans font, all the white text on black backgrounds, or the app drawer mechanic. loading up the latest version of the miui ROM (romsmaster.miui.us) on an old galaxy s and getting a theme that replaces all that makes for a very usable device that doesn’t make my eyes bleed. also, swype is kind of amazing.
Hey folks, to lead-up to the official release of Major/Minor on 9/20, we’ll be posting a new song from the record each weekday in the player below. Since we’ve already released the first two songs (“Yellow Belly” and “Promises”), both of them are included below along with track 3, “Blinded.”…
afitc. i’d just as soon spell out the entire acronym, or possibly go with something like “uh-fit-see”. apparently, the proper shortening of the already-shortened title is “uh-fiddick”. surprisingly good conference overall, and while 95% of the content presented didn’t necessarily pertain to my current job, it’s nice to have what they call a 10,000-foot view of what exactly is going on in the air force, and the department of defense in general. calls from senior leaders to streamline the insanely complicated acquisition and certification processes, understanding that the core network infrastructure must be prepped before signing up for any cloud-type solution. admittance that flipping the switch to allow youtube traffic again might have been a mistake. =) biggest takeaways, in semi-logical, sorta-chronological order:
f-secure reports that a new worm has appeared on the internets called morto, specifically targeting port 3389 (windows remote desktop). sysadmins, be on the lookout. more importantly, make sure all your machines deny the ability to share local folders and drives via \tsclient (which is how the worm’s .dll gets copied over), force network level authentication and have local accounts with strong passwords (the worm runs a series of guesses for local admin rights) to prevent this.
To me, Apple exists in the spirit of the people that work there, and the sort of philosophies and purpose by which they go about their business. So if Apple just becomes a place where computers are a commodity item and where the romance is gone, and where people forget that computers are the most incredible invention that man has ever invented, then I’ll feel I have lost Apple. But if I’m a million miles away and all those people still feel those things and they’re still working to make the next great personal computer, then I will feel that my genes are still in there.
that’s the phrase everyone keeps using when talking about the hp touchpads that got lowered to $99/16gb and $149/32gb. keeping an eye on touchdroid.
went to the clint lowery acoustic/shaman’s harvest/greek fire/evans blue show. 100% of the ticket proceeds went towards the relief effort in joplin, mo. now if only the venue could put the same amount towards the overly-inflated drink prices…
century media bows out of spotify. article has a nice back and forth between their suits and someone who understands the current state of the industry.
last.fm never made sense to me until about six hours ago. in its first incarnation, it only scrobbled tracks listened at your computer. it was also able to retroactively scrobble tracks played on an ipod, but only if you synced it to an itunes library (which i don’t). in the context of natural listening environments (living room by way of xbmc and smartphone with music app), it makes way more sense.
back to square one.
again.