On Friday my primary Microsoft Active Directory Server hard drive failed. In our planning we did not set up the server with RAID on the OS Hard Drive. Now I am stuck loading the system up from scratch. In planning for the rebuild I went…
Recover Windows XP Product Key
In a recent case of “borrowing” at work the product key for my Windows XP Pro installation went for a walk and never returned. I was staring down the barrel of a $100 bill to purchase software that I had already purchased once because of…
Cheap Multifunction Printers
In the past I have had a very hard time justifying the purchase of a cheap multifunction or all in one printer. It’s seemed like a waist to put money into a scanner that was attached to a printer you would probably have to replace…
End Firefox 1.5’s “Unresponsive script” dialog
Quite often when I go to upload large files I run into an “unresponsive script” dialog box in Firefox. This is especially true when I am working with video and/or audio files. It’s even worse when I am at home on dial-up. Lifehacker has a…
Running Windows XP on a Mac – by Apple
Apple just released the beta software called Boot Camp that allows users to run a dual-boot Windows XP and Mac OSX machine. You can read more from Robert Scoble’s web-site, scobleizer: Run XP on a Mac? Cool!. At first I thought that it was a…
Print Servers
One of our departments uses a netgear print server to share the printers with a number of workstations. This week we spent several hours trying to figure out why some of the computers could not connect to the print server despite being able to see…