I needed to put a new domain controller up at one of our production sites this week. We had an older web server in the dev environment that doesn’t get much use these days so I converted it to a virtual machine (I love VMware Converter!) and then reloaded it with Windows 2003 R2.
The install
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At last, something a lot of Gmail users have been asking for has been delivered: Offline Gmail. It’ll be released over the next few days as a Gmail Labs offering and will be powered by Google Gears. Once you have it, you’ll be able to work on your email – still in your browser
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I’ve found, in the past month, that Google Desktop has actually become very useful to have around. While I’ve tried it in the past, it just never caught on but with the addition of some recent gadgets it has become something I use every day on my work machine.
What are these new gadgets? All are
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While there are quite a few ways to accomplish this, what follows is the way I typically go about showing hidden files in Windows Vista. If you have a faster or easier way, feel free to leave a comment and share the love.
First, open a Windows Explorer window (WinKey + E or My Computer would
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Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer was released as 1.0 yesterday (see the announcement). Pretty fast work – seems like I first learned about it back in October.
If you do any development on the Microsoft Web stack, this is a great utility that will get you all setup and ready to go. Free.