Want to know how stong your password is?
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx
The four stages of a typical twitter user…
I for one am not buying it, because I believe that most people (even me) don’t have anything important to “tweet” about during the normal course of their day. I can barely find things to blog about! Anyway, if anyone’s interested there are some good links to fight for twitters usefulness in the following article: […]
New ISP Speeds…
Pretty good eh?
Upgrading Active Directory to Windows Server 2008
For anyone that has to do a Windows 2000 to Windows 2008 upgrade (ugh). I feel bad for ya if you do, but I have a place where I have to do it too… http://blogs.technet.com/jsnow/archive/2008/03/27/upgrading-active-directory-to-windows-server-2008.aspx
Free Network Gateways
I’ve decided to make a short list of network gateways that home / small business users can use on their network. http://www.untangle.com Untangle (I use it on both of my school networks. love it!) http://m0n0.ch/wall/ M0n0wall http://www.astaro.com/our_products/product_overview/landing_pages/free_home_edition Astaro http://www.ipcop.org/ IPCop http://www.devil-linux.org/home/index.php Devil-Linux http://www.clarkconnect.com/ Clarkconnect http://www.pfsense.org/ pfsense and of course, there are MANY more. You can also run the linux distro of your choice, […]
Securing Windows XP on K-12 networks with custom ADM files
Takeaway: Group Policy, in Active Directory, provides a granular way to provide access control for all aspects of local and network resources based on user account, group membership, computer name, etc. However, there are some things that Group Policy can’t do by default. In those cases, you can use custom ADM files. http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6159231.html
Protected: Houses to look at…
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The wizard cannot configure Remote Desktop Connection settings. Make sure that the client version of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 6.0 or later is installed on this computer.
If you experience this problem from a Windows XP SP3 client, when you’re trying to connect to a computer on a SBS 2008 domain using Remote Web Workplace, you may experience this error. A blogpost on technet blogs has this problem solved. Follow these directions to get this problem fixed. http://blogs.technet.com/11/archive/2008/11/07/browse-remote-web-workplace-from-windows-xp-sp3-machine.aspx I still don’t know […]
This utility can be a lifesaver… NTbkup
I was trying to restore a file from my backup external drive, when I encountered and error from NTBackup: “The backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used.” I was quite worried that I wouldn’t be able to recover anything from my rather large .bkf file. That is, until I found this little utility…
We are moving to a new ISP…
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that we have just ordered Verizon FIOS and we will most likely be moving over to their service beginning in May. It is very likely that service will be interrupted for the entire day on the installation date, possibly longer. I will make the transition […]