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Disable task bar notifications in windows XP

October 19, 2010

The official term for those annoying pop up dialog boxes is “bubbles tips”. Had i known that i would have found the solution alot faster, so i figured i should make a post and tag it with all the terms i searched for to make life easier for everyone. So here’s how to get rid of those annoying little [...]

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Android App: Chrome to Phone

October 7, 2010

This is one of the most usefull apps! So your browsing a site, looking up directions, or just in the middle of reading something and you hafto leave your computer, you can bookmark it and come back later. Or you can send it to your phone and keep reading on the go! Especially useful when looking up directions, just send [...]

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Backing up clustered Hyper-v Hosts with DPM

September 1, 2010

I finally got Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager up and running so i can start backing up all the Hyper-V hosts on my cluster and ran into a little error. Hopefully this article will be out of date shortly… that’s assuming Micro$oft patches this issue…. Anyway Heres the problem i ran across. I had already installed [...]

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Quakecon 2010

August 19, 2010

Quakecon was tons of fun. but very little fun was had at the conference itself. they killed file sharing and tightened security to kill the funnest parts. but as always great people, lots of partying, lots of fun! The talks were great and i got to meet John Carmack! anyway ive got alot to do so short post. Quakecon [...]

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My Geeky Car!

August 2, 2010

I posted a picture of my geeky aweosme car on picasa a while back and just went back to check it.. almost 100k views and lots of comments. a few asking how to attrib me. so im making this post to show off my geeky Mazda 3. w00t!

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How to Sync Win2008 server time with NTP (and others)

July 28, 2010

I recently noticed that out domain time was drifting about 5 seconds a week, not a big deal for a while but if it gets too out of sync we would start having Kerberos issues, so better fix it now before we start seeing problems. Here’s what i did to get our domain back on [...]

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World Cup Android apps!

June 15, 2010

If your anything like me you’ve cough world cup fever!!! Ive been using my android phone to keep up to date on the games i cant be at the pub to see, track my teams, and overall enrich my world cup experience! i thought I’d share some of the apps I’ve been using: The best [...]

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Exchange 2010 server stuck on “applying computer settings”

June 15, 2010

If your exchange 2010 server is stuck on Applying Computer Settings during boot up it could be any number of things! First off make sure that noone recently disabled IPv6, that can screw up alot of things. if that has recently happened boot into safemode with networking, and re-enable IPv6. Another cause could be if someone has brought up [...]

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Quake Hair?

June 7, 2010

So back in 2004 I shaved a quake symbol into my head for Quakecon, it was wicked awesome and I got alot more free stuff as a result. but I was 18 at the time.. I’m 24 now.  What I’m saying is I want to do it again, so as usual with these decisions I’m turning it over [...]

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Failed To Install Due To Pending Reboot

May 25, 2010

Ive run across this issue several times, and with several installs. the story always goes like this, Cannot install X software because the system is waiting to reboot. and obviously a reboot doesn’t clear it or i wouldn’t be posting about it. The software that prompted me to post this was SQL server 2008. Heres [...]

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