Ok let me start this by saying at this time I’m awaiting the RMA to send my Lexmark x9350 back to our supplier. We needed a network capable printer to allow us to be able to print from a satellite office to our main headquarters. After doing some searches online we ran across a decent deal on this x9350. It is capable of both wifi and Ethernet connections and offers the normal multi-function printer tools. But after we received it and attempted to install it, the problems started cropping up.
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Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Issues.
March 19th 2009, Microsoft released IE8 to the general public and made it available for Windows updates. The good news with this version of IE is it includes improved standards support. However for many of you who’s websites were designed with frontpage, word, or powerpoint, you may find that your website no longer displays correctly. Some websites will be viewable by using the compatibility mode, but even that will not solve all the problems.
free cd burners for xp
If you have ever used XP or Vista’s native cd burning software you know how limited it is for even the most basic of tasks such as burning a audio cd. Now personally I liked a free software called CDBurnerXP. However for one reason or another, (usually .net framwork), the software keeps breaking and I have to spend time repairing it. So I decided to test a few softwares and see what worked well for me.
Windows Server 2008 Live Migration.
Coming in 2010, with the release of R2 for Windows Server 2008, is the new to Windows service called Live Migration. Live Migration is Microsofts version of VMware’s VMotion service which allows you to move Virtual Machines across servers without having to shut them down.
Terminal Services Remote App
I’ve been looking into ways to take advantage of the new features in Terminal Services for our company. One thing in particular, Remote Applications, caught my eye and reminded me of the tools I used to use when I was running Citrix. Although it wasn’t that interesting to my fellow coworkers, who at the time were relatively new to Terminal Services. That was largely because their main issue was that they couldn’t see their actual desktop, and the web interface that allowed them access to those applications was unfamiliar, and therefore, uncomfortable. But the times have changed yet again, and these days my coworkers use a combination of thin clients and laptops to allow them to work from anywhere.
Internet Video on your TV
A lively discussion this morning inspired today’s blog post. The discussion was about Internet video content being displayed on the home television and what that means as far as ease of use and content to the viewer. Now it is worth mentioning that there are many devices such as slingbox, xbox 360, etc. which allow you to stream video from a pc to your TV. But what I’m more interested in the devices which easily allow you to view Internet content on your TV without needing a PC back-end. And as it turns out, devices like that are fairly new to the market.
6 – 7 versions of Windows 7 WTF?!
I wasn’t a fan of Microsoft’s decision to put out umpteen versions of Vista and I’m still not a fan of this marketing tactic in regards to Windows 7. Microsoft released details today that they will be releasing 6 versions of Windows 7 plus a an N version for the EU that will ship without Media Player installed.
Google’s new tool kit for measuring your ISP’s performance.
This week Google released a new toolkit for measuring the performance of your broadband connection. This suit aims to give you an idea of your total bandwidth and offer tools that attempt to discern whether your ISP is throttling specific traffic types such as bittorrent.
A new SSD by ACard
ACard has a new Solid State Drive that supports up to 64Gb of DDR2. While this particular model ( ANS-9010 ) was designed as a 5.25 drive they also have a model designed for 2.5 drives. While you will be able to increase speed over traditional drives, you won’t be saving any money at $399.00 and no.. Ram isn’t included.
Powershell the switch statement pt 2.
The string value specified in the switch statement’s script block has to exactly match a condition for that condition to equal true. Despite it being unnecessary for exact matches, this would be the same as using the -exact option in a switch statement. There are other options available for use such as -wildcard which lets you use wildcards, and -regex which uses regular expressions. lets look at an example;