Finally found a wallpaper worthy of spanning two monitors. Here’s the original. http://i.imgur.com/FSv4Q.jpg
Read More →Archive for November, 2012
Server Upgrade
Yesterday I bought some RAM for my server to double it from 8GB to 16GB. RAM is dirt cheap, in fact 16GB was only $54 at the local Microcenter and I had a bad drive I needed to return for the same price. After swapping one type of memory for another I gleefully drove home […]
Read More →Switch your hard drive to AHCI mode in Windows 7 without repair/reinstall
If you are planning on switching over to an SSD or just want to take advantage of hot-swap SATA drives in Windows 7 you will need to make some simple registry changes first. This will allow you to boot off the drive after you have switched it from IDE to AHCI.Do this BEFORE you switch […]
Read More →A northwind bak file for you
Why hasn’t anyone done this before? Here is a bak file for the northwind database taken from SQL 2012. Northwind is great for playing around with since it already has data. AdventureWorks is another. I like to have them both on test servers. Anywho, if you want a very simple method of getting northwind onto […]
Read More →How to fix server manager not responding in Windows Server 2012 on Hyper-V
After gleefully blogging about my recent forced Windows 8 experience I decided to start up a Windows Server 2012 VM. I’ve been hearing about all the new improvements and wanted to check them out first hand. The issue was the refresh of server manager, it would run fine and then suddenly become unresponsive. Since Microsoft […]
Read More →10 Things I like about Windows 8
Recently I was forced to buy a new laptop. Well forced may be a little strong, the hard drive in the Macbook died and since the DVD drive also doesn’t work and it’s 6 years old and won’t even run 10.7 (Lion) or above I decided it was time to for a new one. But […]
Read More →How to fix DefaultBrowser_NOPUBLISHERID with Chrome in Windows 8
Activation of app DefaultBrowser_NOPUBLISHERID!Chrome failed with error: Access is denied. Did you just install Chrome, joyfully browse with it, and allow it to be your default browser only to find now it won’t open? Me too! Chrome does not have a feature to allow it to open all links and Windows 8 has two types […]
Read More →Image a MacBook hard drive on Windows and recover data
My aging 6 year old Macbook finally bit the dust, sort of. I bought a larger refurbished hard drive for it to keep it going but it turns out they didn’t refurbish it as well as I hoped. I found this out while trying to back it up. The MacBook kept locking up either because […]
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