November 7, 2006Whilst driving home this evening, I caught the tail end of “All Things Considered” on NPR (yes, I do listen to NPR sometimes). The last item they ran was an interview with two political ad voices. You might recognize them. They have the audio up on this page, and in the [...]
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November 6, 2006Ever noticed that when encoding your CDs, they end up being encoded at different volumes? I’ve become incredibly frustrated at this, so I started looking around. I stumbled on Normalize. An excellent program that will run through wav, mp3, and ogg format files, and normalize the output volume. This is great, [...]
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November 2, 2006Short of purchasing a volume license for MS Office, or deleting registry keys on every new clone, does anybody know of a way to get MS Office to change the reg key on build from a clone? Something like sysprep for office?
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November 2, 2006This is mostly for Bill, but I am rather impressed with Dell on this one, so I thought I’d post, rather than email…
Yesterday our fourth domain controller arrived. A rather nicely spec’d Dell PowerEdge 1950. It was built using the corporate template, so it’s well over-spec’d for what we need (dual core 1.8ghz [...]
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November 1, 2006It’s amusing how many people install software like the “atomic clock” application to keep there servers/desktops in sync with a real server. They don’t seem to realize that the functionality is pre-build into windows in the form of the w32time service. For example, our domain controllers in the office are syncing with pool.ntp.org. [...]
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November 1, 2006I have been known to lose track of time every once in a while, but not 3 days. I just logged onto our monitoring server after noticing some oddness in time. When logging on, the server said it was the 29th of October. That was 3 days ago. So I execute [...]
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November 1, 2006When installing any office products, and you get to the last page that asks if you want to remove the installation files… DO NOT DO IT. Some patches require access to the install CD. If you leave the installation files installed on your computer, you don’t need the CD. If you remove [...]
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