I’ve got to handle it to Oracle; their virtualization software VirtualBox is amazing…and free! It’s features surpass Windows Virtual PC by leaps and are on par with VMWare Workstation. Lately I have been using it for all my host-based virtualization needs. I am in the process of setting up a new computer and part of …
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Consumption of data vs. creation of data
According to the latest buzz we are in the middle of the tablet/slate revolution. This is based on the popularity of the IPad, the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab and countless other upcoming devices of the same type, as well as the popularity of IPhone and the recent launch of Windows Phone 7. In …
Overriding Apple QuickTime 7 installation language
I prefer when software I want to run either comes in a specific language, or lets me choose the language during installation. In an effort to be more user friendly a lot of software is configured to detect the region your computer is set to. I prefer to run my OS in English, but have …
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Entourage 2008 EWS and Public Folders
Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition is a required upgrade if you are using Exchange Server 2010. Entourage 2008 (without EWS) uses WebDAV to communicate with Exchange Server and WebDAV has been removed from Exchange Server 2010. Entourage EWS now uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) as the primary protocol for communicating with Exchange …
Exchange 2010 not receiving mail
My Inbox had been awfully quiet for a few days. Time to investigate: Putty with manual SMTP session: 220 <servername> Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:53:01 +0100 ehlo server1.nowhere.com 500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command ehlo server1.nowhere.com 250-<servername> Hello [<client IP>] 250-SIZE 250-PIPELINING 250-DSN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-STARTTLS 250-X-ANONYMOUSTLS 250-AUTH NTLM 250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM …
Go Consolas!
It’s probably not good for your geek factor when you get excited about a new font in Windows, but a friend from work tipped me of about a new font in Windows 7 today; the Consolas TTF font, and now I am very excited. This is the description of the Consolas font family from Microsoft.com: …
Morgan’s list of great (free) applications and utilities
So I thought I would put together a list of the stuff I use. Mostly as sort of a memo to myself, but if anyone finds this useful, so much the better. Name Description Audacity Sound file editing Paint.NET Image editing HashCheck Checksum verification/creation MyDefrag Defragmentation VirtualDub Video edition Foxit Reader PDF Reader/PDF Ifilter 7-Zip …
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Morgan’s collection of Windows keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcut Does what Works on Notes Win+P Brings up the dual-monitor settings. Windows 7 Win+X Launches Windows Mobility Center Windows Vista, Windows 7 Win+L Locks computer Windows XP and above F2 Rename file/folder Windows In Windows Explorer More to come… Link to a KB article that lists a lot of shortcuts: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/126449
Dual postings
For several reasons I have decided to start publishing my blog posts to both my own, privately hosted, SharePoint Blog and my Windows Live Spaces account. This will be the first such post. The URLs of the blogs are: SharePoint Blog: www.simonsen.bz/blog Windows Live Spaces Blog: http://morgansimonsen.spaces.live.com/blog/
Not something you generally want to see…
“General failure”, that’s helpful. My on-board Atheros L1 Gigabit NIC sucks. There is really no other way to put it. Every Atheros chip, be it wireless or cable, I have had the misfortune to come across has been worthless. You should think that Ethernet and Wi-Fi should be pretty well understood concepts by now. Not …