While researching a possible '08 presidential candidate, Mark Warner at OnTheIssues.net, I saw he supported something called "Tek.Xam - a standard test for technology employment." I wondered what this was so I searched and found tekxam.com. I laughed a little as I clicked through each of the …

I just wanted to remember this URL, you may find it useful, too: Aptana Studio. (It's still nice and relevant 6 years later in 2012)

I'm on my second Macbook. My first one was fast and beautiful but it had that annoying moo and randomly shut down on a regular basis. For reasons unknown, an AppleCare rep told me on my 5th call that my laptop was DOA and could be exchanged for a new one. It was well past my 14-day exchange limit and I found it so hard …

I'll have a more complete list later, but here is the order the network admins at work have figured out works best when using the Active Directory Migration tool to migrate from NT 4 to Server 2003 (be sure to check the rest of the blog for other scripts which are necessary when using ADMT):

1. User with SID (/Groups …

For years I've used Windows Server 2003 and for years, I've been missing some of my favorite features from Windows Powertoys. The Image Resizer Powertoy is definitely one that came in really handy when I used XP. Unfortunately, anytime I tried to run it under 2k3, I would receive the message

The powertoys require …

When adding a trusted domain or migrating computers to a new domain, the login prompt often defaults to the old domain or the name of the workstation. This can cause confusion for users who are often confused about computers by default ;)

In order to make their lives easier, you can set their default login domain by …

In order for Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) to install its Agent on a newly migrated computer, the user running the ADMT tool must have local Administrator access. Otherwise, the error log shows something similar to the following:

WRN1:7290 Processor architecture for machine \NT4MACHINE is unknown, Error …

Found this code and wanted to bookmark it... from VisualBasicScript.com's Forums

Function fSortArray(aSortThisArray) Set oArrayList = CreateObject("System.Collections.ArrayList" ) For iElement = 0 To UBound(aSortThisArray) oArrayList.Add aSortThisArray(iElement) Next oArrayList.Sort set fSortArray = …

Dang, Gina! My black Macbook has been a pain this past week. I'm having unexpected shutdowns galore. Called Apple about 5 times and they offered to replace it as it is a DOA.

I've read around the Internet that others are experiencing this problem... Many have concluded that it is a faulty logic board. Here are a few of …

This snippet has come in handy quite a few times for me...

Call ListFolderContents("C:\Windows\System32\Drivers")

Sub ListFolderContents(path) set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") set folder = fs.GetFolder(path) Msgbox folder.path

For each item in folder.SubFolders …