Andrew D Williams

You can create your own vm’s without VMWare Workstation by following the great instructions here.

I had a client recently who had their computer in one of those craptastic build it yourself desks with the little enclosure for the CPU. He wanted to know why his PC would not stay on. When I started to remove his PC, I found the case was rocket hot. Not only was the PC [...]

Inevitably, people will leave an organization for one reason or another. When this happens another employee often needs access to the ex-employee’s email. You can find great instructions on how to do this for Exchange here. You should also forward all subsequent email to another user by changing the settings on the Exchange General tab [...]

If you trying to access FTP sites which require logon usernames and passwords through IE and ISA here is a bit of advice: Don’t. Do yourself a favor and install or use a real FTP client such as WINSCP, Filezilla, or even the FTP command line tool in Windows. Internet Explorer makes a terrible FTP [...]

I had a backup of the my music folder from another computer that I had copied to my desktop. I wanted to move this folder to my my documents folder so I renamed it. Upon moving the folder however I found that the my music folder in my documents had changed to the name of [...]

I have become a firm believer in email encryption. Use my public key to contact me you can find it on my email encryption page.

Share any song in your iTunes library and download any song from your friends’ iTunes libraries over the internet with freeware application Mojo.
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I link to the following video, not necessarily because of the content itself, but because it is the first example I have seen of a link automatically downloading video into itunes for syncing to an ipod. A very cool feature Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

They finally did it, discs are fully playable after ripping! Down with DRM!
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If you need a way to create PDFs from your documents, try PDF Creator. Not only will it create PDFs, not only is it free and open source software, but it can also be installed on a print server as a network printer storing newly created PDFs on a network share. Also, if you need [...]