Vista Boot Manager

Boot.ini is dead (mostly) and the new sheriff in town is BCDEdit. I have a dual-boot system, XP and Vista, on two physical drives. It’s now been over six months since I booted into XP, so that small 160GB drive needs to be replaced with a larger 400GB drive. When boot.ini was king, no problem, now with the [...]

Blogs I Follow, Part 1

Sure I have a blog, but which tech blogs do I follow? Well, as it turns out too many, thus the “Part I” in the title. In no particular order (some of which are in the Blogroll): Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite - Probably my favorite technews writer. His sarcasm and pragmatism keeps me reading. Bink.nu - Basically a [...]

Travel the Stars from your Desktop

Here’s a fun space exploration program that’s been around for a while, Celestia. Celestia allows you to zoom around the solar system and beyond with amazing images and accuracy. It supports Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. For those wanting to travel further out and for you sci-fi fans (and who isn’t?), go to the [...]

3 Windows Vista Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are three keyboard shortcuts I learned about while reading the Mastering Windows Vista book. Windows key + Spacebar to bring the Windows Sidebar to the foreground (the Sidebar must be running) Windows key + X for to launch the Mobility Center (only for laptops and tablet PCs) Ctrl + Alt + End to bring up [...]

Get your Cylon here!

Okay, this is too cool not to post: ThinkGeek has affordable Cylons for purchase. I ordered one a few weeks ago and while anciously waiting I received a call from my brother-in-law thanking me for his new arrival. Since he was the last person I ordered stuff for, his shipping address was cached. So in my [...]

Evaluate Exchange 2007 on 32-bit

Since hands-on experience is the best teacher, I highly recommend using Exchange 2007 quite a bit before putting it into production. This release, which I’m sure you’ve already read, is quite different than the Exchange 2000/2003 that came before. It’s a similar jump that was Exchange 5.5 to 2000 in functionality and UI. Get the [...]

Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008

I’ve just begun a project involving an Exchange 2007 deployment on Windows 2008, one FE (Hub and CAS roles) with a clustered BE (Mailbox role only), the Edge role will be Sendmail. This is an intra-organization migration replacing a single Exchange 2003 server. Part of this is getting the prerequisites out of the way. TechNet has a [...]

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