Diskpart Does Not See Volumes on OEM Partitions
As I worked today on recreating a Dell Utility Partition, I encountered this factoid: Diskpart, when run inside Windows, does not see volumes on OEM partitions.
MCB Now Certified in SBS 2008
I’ve been a Microsoft Certified Professional for several years. Recently I invested the time to prepare for and take Microsoft exam 70-653. With that successfully behind me, I’m now a …
Custom Format Drive During Server 2008 Install
I’m installing SBS 2008 in a Hyper-V VM. I want the system partition to be formatted with 16KB allocation unit (cluster) size. Whether that turns out to be a good …
Remove a Contact from an Outlook 2007 Distribution List
You may have learned the hard way that if you open a distribution list in Outlook 2007, highlight one contact, and click on Delete, the entire distribution list is deleted! …
WordPress at Go Daddy Slow Compared to BlogEngine.NET
Through the end of May, this blog was run on BlogEngine.NET and hosted on a Small Business Server through a DSL connection with a maximum 768 kbps upload speed. On …
Hyper-V Core Configurator Does Not Show Paused VMs
I’ve been running PBX in a Flash under the free version of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for several months (blogged earlier). This week, I’ve added a couple test machines …
Linux Daily Delete Job with Logwatch
I have PBX in a Flash set up to create a daily backup and FTP the file to a Windows server. But how do I get rid of the old …
Facebook: Scam Central
In the last 24 hours I received two invitations from different Facebook friends to sign up for “events.” Both emails actually came from Facebook, and both included the first and …
Phony Facebook Email
Recently I received a very legitimate-looking email supposedly from Facebook. It wanted me to click on a link to read a message. Even though the visible link text shows the …
Using Gzip in a Cron Job at Go Daddy
I wanted to copy my web site and subwebs from Go Daddy to my local machine. My trusty old WS_FTP32 client kept disconnecting partway through the (large) download. I installed …