Suunto Core Black – my dream SUV watch | R2D2′s owner review

Suunto Core Black – my dream SUV watch I have to admit with a bit of redness in my cheeks – I have a [more…]

Replace Microsoft infra, services and apps with OpenSource – Part1 – DC base server build | MS2FOSS

Hi there My FOSS self-kicked project (as described here, codenamed Sky) is slowly progressing (hey, I just managed to get away from work for [more…]

Citrix CSP licensing annoyance – how to cleanup | GuestPost by James Leonard

GuestPost trick by my good friend James Leonard One of our customers is using service provider licensing for Citrix which is per user/device only [more…]

Windows 8 mouse cursor disappears on secondary display – fix workaround

I’ve run Windows 8 on my main PC since the release. While I am satisfied with the usability and stability, and don’t agree with [more…]

R2D2 on Obama and 42 | Obama Calls for Tech Research – Not Seen Since Height of Space Race

R2D2′s commentary: Bellow is my opinion. What is yours? SOURCE: http://mashable.com/2013/02/12/obama-research-development/ http://mashable.com/2013/02/12/obama-wants-tech-focused-high-schools/ The Americans, as well as this current president, continue to astound [more…]

3D gaming setup – the proper way | Guest-posting – Cristian Croitoru

- guest-posted by Cristian Croitoru - I have the WoW fever and have been bashing my way through Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Northrend to finally reach Pandaria, [more…]

How to add a “show desktop” icon in Windows 8

Once you get the hang of working with Windows 8 in the more traditional deskotp mode, there are a few things that you may [more…]

IT Change Management – the very necessary evil (or why change management is NOT only for live systems)

As IT professionals, regardless of our specialisation, we are all familiar with the change management concepts. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) describes change management [more…]

Problem Management and fault analysis

I’ve been very privileged to attend a class-based formal Kepner-Tregoe course (to the practitioner level) focused on problem management. I highly recommend this structured [more…]

Free Windows Event log monitor to Syslog

I thought I’d drop this in as a follow up the previous one (SNMP) , for the environments that only have syslog server as an aggregation point [more…].

Free Windows Event log monitor with SNMP

I guess this is not common knowledge to most Wintel engineers/admins, but, if you have an SNMP-based monitoring system in your environment (and it’s [more…]

Windows “touch” equivalent

Updating a file’s attributes with the current date and time can be easily achieved under Microsoft Windows by issuing the following command in CMD: copy [more…]

OSes explained … consumer perspective

I came across this recently (should have found it earlier). It’s part of an essay called “In the beginning … was the command line”, [more…]

Network Packet capture – finding the needle

Packet capture – finding conversations based on payload – aka: finding the needle in the haystack Recently, I’ve had the pain and privilege [more…]

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