February 2011
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Feb 1st
January 2011
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Lifesong
I’m a big Casting Crowns fan, and when I think about how I want to live my life, I’m reminded of some of the lyrics in one of the band’s popular songs, Lifesong: I want to sign your name / to the end of this day / knowing that my heart was true / Let my lifesong sing to You As we kick off 2011, I’m pleased to say that over the past year, I think the person I want to be...
Jan 28th
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Sigh No More performed by Jars of Clay and Audrey Assad.  This is one of those tunes I just can’t stop listening to.  I hope our band can work it up sometime.
Jan 27th
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Register an ActiveX control for all users of a...
A customer recently asked me about how to register an ActiveX control so that all users of a terminal/Citrix server could download/run it, regardless of rights. I can’t even begin to tell you all the things I tried to get this working, but some things that I had no success with were: Adding the site with the .cab file to the Trusted Sites list via GPO Deploying the .cab file as an .msi...
Jan 27th
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How to fix getting prompted for SBEAGENT.MSI in...
One of my customer’s, shortly after a Vipre antivirus deployment, found that any time they right-clicked the start menu, they’d get the following error on one of their machines: A quick chat with the friendly Web chat folks at GFI, and I was on my way: Create a new .MSI installer using the Vipre console. Delete this reg key:...
Jan 24th
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How to fix the "Unsupported hardware family...
I was helping a customer do some OVF template deployments off of Acronis-created images recently, and upon trying to bring them into an ESXi box, we got this happy little message: After hitting myself a lot didn’t fix the problem, I engaged a sales manager at Acronis, who sent me this helpful article, showing that VMware doesn’t support the vmx-05 family.  So I figured I’d...
Jan 23rd
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Write your own power scheme for your PC
One of the first things I change when I get a new PC is the way it handles putting the monitor and hard disk to sleep.  I finally did it enough times that it bugged me enough to script it using this article, which walks you through the commands necessary to built out a custom config.  Here’s mine: powercfg -DUPLICATESCHEME 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e...
Jan 23rd
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List VPN users on a Cisco PIX
I can never freakin’ remember this…gotta write it down one of these days: show run | grep user
Jan 22nd
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Create files of any size using the command line →
I had a situation recently where I needed to create a file of a certain size so I could email it and make sure a customer’s mail server rejected it.  This site shows you how to do it.  The format of the command is: fsutil file createnew <name of file> <size in bytes> I needed an 11mb file, so I did: fsutil file createnew bigfile.txt 11000000
Jan 22nd
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Enable or disable your wireless card from the...
This site taught me one of my favorite tips to save a tiny bit of battery on my laptop and let me be lazy at the same time. Basically it points you to download devcon from Micro$oft, identify what kind of wireless NIC you have, and then write a quick script to disable/enable your wifi card. For example, my script to turn off my NIC is simply: devcon disable *DEV_4315* And to turn it back on: ...
Jan 21st
“Unless you know all the words. If you don’t know every word, I will...”
– Dane Cook, when asked about what karoke song (Bust a Move) he never wants to hear again (via Popeater).
Jan 20th
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Save some battery life with your Sprint Evo →
I followed the tips on this site and got a noticable amount of battery life back.  Thanks Evdoinfo!
Jan 19th
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Reason 1,047 I want to join Casting Crowns.
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Vocal warmups: The Prayer
I’ve been playing around with SoundCloud to host some of my music recordings, and I really love it.  So, here is the first of what will probably be dozens of stupid recordings to come.  It’s a snippet of The Prayer, done Groban+gibberish style.
Jan 14th
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Vocal warmups: The Prayer
I’ve been playing around with SoundCloud to host some of my music recordings, and I really love it.  So, here is the first of what will probably be dozens of stupid recordings to come.  It’s a snippet of The Prayer, done Groban+gibberish style.
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Save some battery life with your Sprint Evo →
I followed the tips on this site and got a noticable amount of battery life back.  Thanks Evdoinfo!
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Reason 1,047 I want to join Casting Crowns.
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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How to quickly find open ports in Windows
There are so many little shortcuts, tips, tricks that I use all the time - but never remember!  So I’m going to start documenting them here.  Here’s a command you can run in Windows to list open ports and export the results to a text file: netstat -an |find /i "listening" > c:\name-of-file-to-export-to.txt
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 6th
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Roku? More like NO-ku!
A few weeks ago I fired up the Roku and found no listings in the Netflix channel.  Upon closer investigation, it looked like the Roku “forgot” my network settings.  I went back to the main setup wizard, and upon scanning for wireless networks, I got jack squat (see above).  I figured the thing had bitten the dust, and it was way out of warranty, so I was about to use it as a...
Jan 5th
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Roku? More like NO-ku!
A few weeks ago I fired up the Roku and found no listings in the Netflix channel.  Upon closer investigation, it looked like the Roku “forgot” my network settings.  I went back to the main setup wizard, and upon scanning for wireless networks, I got jack squat (see above).  I figured the thing had bitten the dust, and it was way out of warranty, so I was about to use it as a...
Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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ncpa.cpl: a shortcut to happiness
Regardless of what anybody tells me, it still feels like in Windows 7 you have to do like 14 clicks to bring up the screen that lists your network connections and their current status. So my new favorite Windows shortcut in the world is ncpa.cpl which brings you right to the good stuff.
Jan 3rd
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ncpa.cpl: a shortcut to happiness
Regardless of what anybody tells me, it still feels like in Windows 7 you have to do like 14 clicks to bring up the screen that lists your network connections and their current status. So my new favorite Windows shortcut in the world is ncpa.cpl which brings you right to the good stuff.
Jan 3rd