Hover Mode failure
HP Gen 9 servers have better fan control now and don’t quite sound like Cessnas at takeoff so I had to adjust my customary customization.
Category Archives: Geekery
One Fast Cat exercise wheel
Since we’ve moved to the smaller apartment, Trouble has been missing having a racetrack, and Wasabi, well, he’s just got energy to burn, so we took a recent windfall and Continue Reading →
New computational assistant
So the last time the Boss got me a new work laptop, they let me buy the old one cheap and I took it home and set it up in Continue Reading →
No servers in Network Browser
So there you are, you’ve just updated the last of your servers to Server 2008, 2008R2 or even 2012, and you’ve gotten all of your client PCs up to at Continue Reading →
Program crashes with “Can’t get local AppData folder”
Another quick notes post. If you have a prgram fail to run with this error, it’s probably a bad entry in the registry. Good news is, it’s easy to find Continue Reading →
Outlook’s Message Recall feature is useless
Really, reeeaaally useless. So, you’ve screwed the pooch and accidentally sent that email “Reply to ALL” instead of just your one chum, and your snarkiness is going to get you Continue Reading →
Business tip: don’t let the CFO be the IT contact
Working as an outsourced IT guy, I’ve seen many different approaches to the idea of the ‘IT Liaison’ position – that poor sap who gets tasked with keeping track of Continue Reading →
HP ML350/370 G6 Expansion Drive Cage Installation problem
So, you’ve just bought the expansion drive cage (8 more SFF drives! W00t!) and you’ve got the SAS RAID controller Expansion Card as well. Great! Only one problem – HP Continue Reading →
Internet Explorer 9 – Microsoft STILL doesn’t get it.
Here is a phone pic of my computer 3 minutes into the process of installing Internet Explorer 9: Why a phone pic? Because it had to completely shut down everything Continue Reading →
Legacy Email Relay in SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007
As can be expected, Microsoft made a lot of changes in the SBS 2008 / Exchange 2007 combination, and while it has been out for several years now, I have Continue Reading →