Since my boss decided to switch from cmd.exe to PowerShell (yay!), I’ve been working on setting up a set of standardized profile scripts for everyone.  One of his first questions was how to change the prompt.  Since we’re using the PowerShell Community Extensions, we’ve been not only learning PowerShell but also the community extensions.  One [...]

I’ve been using the Community Extensions for PowerShell for some time now but for various reasons haven’t had the time to really dive in and learn it (or PowerShell) the way I’d like.  My company (well, the IT department at my company) is now standardizing on using PowerShell in place of cmd.exe and using the [...]

On some of my machines I noticed that I was having trouble upgrading to the latest service pack for some of the products I have installed (e.g. Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, etc.).  It wasn’t a critical problem and I didn’t have the time to spend on tracking it down at that time so [...]

I was doing some cleanup on my server and ran across the ctfmon.exe process.  I’ve investigated this process before and at that time there didn’t seem to be definitive information available on it.  At one point there was even a virus that was being installed on people’s machines posing as ctfmon.exe. When I searched today, I [...]

I decided to try out FeedBurner on my site using the FeedSmith plugin.  I happened to subscribe to someone else’s blog through FeedBurner and I kind of like the result as a reader.  It’s an amazingly rich solution for publishing feeds of a site, connecting many different applications together for publishing.  I hope it proves [...]

I just learned about a service from Weblog Tools Collection called Notifixious for allowing visitors to be notified via IM, email, or SMS when a new post is published to a blog.  This is a pretty slick tool that is easy to add to a WordPress blog and really simplifies these kinds of notifications.  The [...]

I’m so disappointed!  DVDSpot.com is a great site for cataloging DVDs and for finding something to watch, but now it is closing.  Here is the notice on their front page: On Wednesday October 15th DVDSpot will be closed permanently. This decision was made to allow us to focus on other great web properties. We sincerely appreciate [...]

I decided to try the Google Chrome web browser when it came out recently.  I’d been using Opera for a while and liked a number of things about.  Here’s a brief summary of my experiences with Chrome. It installed and configured itself very quickly. I really liked that it pulled all my favorites over from IE, including [...]

I’m pretty much a Windows Vista devotee at this point - I really like the user interface and overall user experience even with its warts.  However, this article caught my eye: How to install and run a FULL Windows XP from a USB drive How cool is that!  I might just have to try it. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Booting [...]

I’ve been using Microsoft’s latest version of Office (2007) for quite some time now, but I frequently run into people using the previous version (2003) that cannot read the files I produce. With 2007, Microsoft changed the default format of the file to be based on XML for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I [...]