Andrew D Williams

“Jeremy” excels at being able to see an engineering problem from the inside out,What Jeremy is not good at is suffering fools or dealing with bureaucracy. If someone is wrong — if their idea just plain won’t work — he says so, simply states the fact. That frankness causes all manner of upset in the office, he’s discovered.

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Items for sale on the online auction site that have misspellings
in their listing titles or descriptions are likely to receive fewer
bids — and sell for less — because they’re more difficult to find.
The WSJ reviews free online services that can help uncover
those hidden treasures by searching eBay and Craigslist for misspelled item listings

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Here’s a handy tip that can save hours of frustration: If attempting to use Internet Explorer as a web proxy client with ISA 2006, turn off Integrated Windows Authentication in the tools advanced options tab. This will allow you to authenticate to the proxy server with the credentials of your choice.

Problem: What if one user (call her Sally) needs to be able to send mail as another user (call him Bob). Simply giving Sally full mailbox rights will not work. You will get a bounce back email saying "you do not have permission to send to this recipient." But it can be done.

Easy answer: Go to the Exchange General tab for the user for which you want to assign send as rights(Bob). Click on Delivery Options.

Next to the send on behalf window click add and enter Sally’s user name.

Ok your way back out and you’re done.

Thanks to the wisdom of Homeland Security and the TSA, travellers may now be asked to allow screeners access to your laptops when you fly. While this is pretty shitty for obvious reasons, CNET is offering some advice on how to stop the pigs from finding all your homemade tentacle anime.

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So I needed to write a script to make a backup copy of an Access database. Problem is you can’t copy the file while it is open and you can’t force the program to close for fear of corrupting the database. So the solution is to use the Volume Shadow Copy feature built into XP. You have to turn on the following services: MS Software Shadow Copy Provider and Volume shadow copy. Then you can use the scripts here (customized to fit your needs of course.) Making the backup of the open file becomes a snap.

Sometimes power fails. Sometimes you can’t access controls for Active Desktop in order to change settings. And Sometimes this leaves you stuck looking at Active Desktop Recovery instead of your normal desktop. When this happens, here’s how to fix it:

run regedit
find this entry – HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
change the key value – DeskHtmlVersion REG_DWORD 0×00000110(272) to decimal zero
Close regedit log off and log back on.

15 WordPress plugins to enhance the blogging experience of advanced users, especially web developers and designers. Most are tested using a default installation of Wordpress 2.3.1

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Those terminal servers can be tricky to get working properly. I was trying to connect to a terminal server yesterday but kept getting message about licenses not being available. I knew I had enough licenses available on the server though. After a little digging, I found this: Set a preferred license server.

After following the steps to specify a license server everything works as it should.

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