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Windows NFS: Don’t Forget .maphosts

  By Chris | July 25, 2010 - 9:43 am | Tech
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I recently mentioned that I was trying out NFS Services on Windows 2003. It actually has been working quite well for me – faster and less CPU than NFS to my OpenFiler server, in fact. OK, to be fair, the OpenFiler server is a bit older and running a pair … Continue reading →

Tagged backup, microsoft, NFS, Openfiler, Tech-Ops, Windows, Windows-7

Office 2010 Live on SkyDrive

  By Chris | June 10, 2010 - 7:42 pm | Tech
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Years late to the party, but Microsoft has finally made their online office suite a bit more available to the general public. I learned about it from the “Office is now live on SkyDrive” article: […] if you live in the US, UK, Canada, or Ireland, you can head over … Continue reading →

Tagged GTD, microsoft, microsoft-office, onenote, onlineoffice

Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.2

  By Chris | June 4, 2010 - 9:06 pm | Tech
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Microsoft released version 2.2 of Remote Desktop Connection Manager last week and I have to say that I am rather impressed. Been a long time since I checked out their RD Connection Manager so I’m not sure what’s new to this version but there are some great features here. For … Continue reading →

Tagged microsoft, mRemote, remote-desktop, Remote-Desktop-Connection-Manager

Windows Update / Hotfix Conundrum

  By Chris | May 23, 2010 - 7:46 am | Tech
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A month or two ago, two of my development servers got stuck in a sort of loop. No matter how many times I applied the .NET 2.0 updates they wanted, they’d want the updates again immediately after the install. It became a bit tedious… … seeing the KB974417 and KB976569 … Continue reading →

Tagged .NET, hotfix, microsoft, microsoft-update, patches, Tech-Ops

Second Internet Explorer 9 Preview

  By Chris | May 12, 2010 - 8:15 pm | Tech
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About two months after the first Internet Explorer 9 Preview the IE team announced the second preview last week. Looking at it as a casual user there’s no big changes here, but it does feel a bit faster than the last one – and dramatically faster than IE8. If you’re … Continue reading →

Tagged IE9, javascript, microsoft, preview
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