Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report
Cool little utility built into Windows 7 to survey your computers energy efficiency. Run a command prompt as Administrator and run the following:
powercfg –energy
This will run for a minute and then create a report for your system. The filename and path will be shown when it finishes running. Note that you may need to copy [...]
Location Aware Printing in Win7
A cool feature in Windows 7 is location aware printing to allow your laptop to automatically choose the default printer based on the network your connected to. The instructions below are from the Microsoft Springboard Series
To setup location aware printing:
Click the Start menu and then click Devices & Printers
Under Printers and Faxes, click a printer [...]
Windows Server 2008 Easy Print
:: UPDATE
After the 120 days the server stopped responding to Remote Desktop. I got in touch with the support rep and it looks like even after repeatedly questioning the fact that I’m not acutally running a Terminal Server and being told not to worry, he mis-understood.
I removed the Terminal Services role, rebooted and it looks [...]
Windows 7 Driver Recovery
I had the first issue I’ve seen so far with Windows 7 today, actually it was the new beta NVidea driver that I’m running. While in the middle of working my screen blanked out..just as I started muttering the slew of curses it came back online and the little balloon popped up saying there was [...]
Keepvid
Cool site was mentioned on Tekzilla to allow you to download and save videos from YouTube so you can store and watch later or on portable players. Check out Keepvid.com
Setup MRTG on Ubuntu
I have an old system that is running Ubuntu on it for the main purpose of running MRTG. Once it was setup the only time I ever connect to it (other than viewing the stats pages) is when I need to add additional devices to be monitored. Because I don’t do this often I always [...]
Windows 7 RC
I decided to try out the new Windows 7 RC on a Asus EeePC 1000HE netbook. After setting up a USB flash drive to boot from, the install went smooth. The Ethernet driver is actually included in the RC where it wasn’t in the Beta…still have one driver missing but haven’t looked to see what [...]
Web Tools
I haven’t had a chance to try this out yet (too busy playing around with Windows 7 running on my new Asus EeePC 1000HE) but Microsoft Glimmer looks like a really cool tool to create some nice JQuery scripts without having to do any coding. Definitely something to check out: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/glimmer
Also came across this site [...]
Developer Tools in IE8
Found a cool new feature in IE 8, the developer tools make a nice improvement. Press F12 to bring up the developer tools to work with HTML, CSS and scripts on the site to make real-time changes (view only.) Definitely a nice plus.
Windows Server 2008 Foundation
Talk about a stealth launch from Microsoft, the release of Windows Server 2008 Foundation was practically missed by most of the MS Partners in this area. While going through a Microsoft presentation from J.J. at the Palm Beach IT Association meeting the only person who had heard about it thought it was an April Fools [...]