This year I decided to look for a place to move my checking account to that would earn me little extra. Right now I use National City and love their online banking, but I don’t get any interest for my money.
I’ve been looking at Lake Michigan Credit Union’s MAX checking and NuUnion’s SoSmart Checking.
They both [...]
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December 9th, 2005
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As the author of a bunch of books on Unix and shell script programming (most recently Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours and Wicked Cool Shell Scripts) I see a lot of interesting questions about how to be more efficient with the Unix / Linux command line and how to do neat things in shell [...]
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October 21st, 2005
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Is anyone interested in Jokes? Should I add this module to the site?
It had been snowing for hours when an announcement came over the high school intercom:
"Will the students who are parked on University Drive please move their cars so that we may begin plowing."
Twenty minutes later there was another announcement:
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September 21st, 2005
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Anyone ever had much success getting their patches integrated into their RIS images? We’ve always just used SMS to push out the patches after the RIS but our folks out in the field don’t like waiting up to an hour for everything to come down. And until we had the ITMU, it might need to [...]
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September 3rd, 2005
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Marketwatch: Microsoft buys VoPI provider Teleo.
Ahh, this is the tool I saw at Demo and I said it’s a potential Skype killer.
It hasn’t turned out to be that yet, but this sure is interesting news. I didn’t know about it, by the way. I have some inquiries into our mergers and acquisitions department to see [...]
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September 2nd, 2005
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I had an interesting question asked of me today, and I had to spend some time looking into it, so I thought I’d share the result of that with you.
As you know, adprep is used for preparing Active Directory to include Windows Server 2003 domain controllers. It comes in two flavors:
adprep /forestprep
Which is, of course, [...]
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August 5th, 2005
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A way to keep an eye on disk fragmentation over the network….Interesting. I’ll have to test this one next week.
The Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks is a stand-alone utility that detects and reports fragmentation-related performance loss on networked systems. It provides this info through an easy to use console that displays its results in [...]
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July 5th, 2005
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Here’s an interesting KB that cements a great best practice for storage group configuration in Exchange 2003.
KB.890699 talks about the best way to load up storage groups in Exchange 2003. You might recall that in Exchange 2000, the (somewhat unspoken) best practice on this was to always load up the storage groups all the way [...]
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June 4th, 2005
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If you haven’t made the switch to Office Communicator yet, and are still running Windows Messenger in your organisation, then you may be interested in this .ADM file to manage messenger with group policy.? This download updates the Microsoft Windows Messenger 5.1 Administrative Template (ADM) file and contains appropriate policy settings for Windows Messenger 5.1.
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May 31st, 2005
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Interesting tool, I’ll have to check this out.
Download the Microsoft Security Risk Self-Assessment Tool (MSRSAT) and install it on your computer to obtain information and recommendations about best practices to help enhance security within your information technology (IT) infrastructure.
This application is designed to help organizations with fewer than 1,000 employees assess [...]
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