Remote Desktop with Custom Port from Surface RT
Today I was helping a customer connect from an original Microsoft Surface tablet running Surface RT to a remote Windows 7 desktop computer. The desktop uses a custom RDP listening …
Synology: More than a NAS
I recently had the opportunity to attend a seminar showcasing Synology’s lineup of network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Their offering is truly impressive, with everything from two-disk home units up to …
Windows Update Operation 4913 of 11629
Usually Windows Updates shows you a percentage complete as the machine is rebooting. Yesterday for some reason, on one Windows 7 machine, I got a count of the “operations”: The …
Aspire R11 R3-131T and the 32GB Limit
Recently I purchased an Acer Aspire R3-131T-C28S from Walmart. I wanted to see how far I could get with a $199 computer. The answer? Pretty far, but not far enough. …
HitmanPro.Alert Crashes Windows 10 Upgrade
I was running HitmanPro.Alert 2.6.5.77 on a domain-joined Windows 8.1 Pro laptop. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 10 (using the online update or a USB key), it repeatedly …
Open Word 5 File in Word 2013
I have some Microsoft Word 5 files from 1990 that were not opening properly in Word 2013. I could see some text but not all, and the formatting was wrong. …
Changing the Passenger Standalone Log Level
I’m trying to debug an issue with Passenger Standalone 4.0.53 and had a hard time figuring out how to increase the log level. It turns out you have to create …
Configure WordPress on OpenShift without Git: Part 2
In the Part 1 of this article, I explained how to set up an “empty” PHP app on OpenShift and how to connect to it using Putty, WinSCP, and FileZilla. …
Configure WordPress on OpenShift without Git: Part 1
I wanted to move a WordPress site from a shared host to a OpenShift, the PaaS offering from RedHat. This should be a faster setup since the OpenShift gears will …
PowerShell Command to List Users and Password Expiration Dates
Here from TechNet is a quick PowerShell script to list enabled Active Directory Accounts and their password expiration dates: