So after weeks (months?) of hype, a night of reading the various Engadget posts and following the Live Engadget Press Conference Post, I made the purchase of the Nexus One as soon as the site (http://www.google.com/phone) stopped returning a bogus 404 error.
Ignoring the little bit of time I spent with Windows 7 RC, I’ve now been using Windows 7 for seven days. To celebrate my week with the new Operating System, I’d like to share my seven of the features that I’ve come so far that I’ve enjoyed having.
About a week ago I ranted about the lack of customer service out there in the business today. I’d like to share another story with you today about a restaurant I visited a couple of years ago in Massachusetts.
So, I’ve been away from the blog for a month and came back to rant just a bit. I’m unsure if this is a local, national, or global change but in the last few years the customer service side of business has taken a huge turn for the worst. In this economy where money is tight and people are probably being more thoughtful about who they spend it with, shouldn’t business be doing a bit more to be consumer friendly?
For those who are unaware, there is a monitoring and reporting systems for modern hard disks known as SMART. I’ll save the explanations for Wikipedia’s S.M.A.R.T. page. Instead of my normal big script example, I’d like to provide you with a snippet that basically just loops over the known data from WMI using AutoIt. You can modify this however you’d like to return error codes if failures are found, write out to logs, etc.
I was recently tasked with adjusting the DCOM Security Settings (DCOM: Machine Access Restrictions and DCOM: Machine Launch Restrictions) in the local security policy on a number of computers. These can be changed manually by opening the Local Security Policy and browsing to Local Policies and then Security Options, but it needed to be more automated than that and needed to be rolled out to a few hundred Windows XP Computers.
As most of us Google users know, as Google scours the Internet indexing web pages and ranking them for our benefit, they also cache the page at points in time. You see this option whenever you look at a result in a Google search, and shown in the picture below (see red underline).
I’ve been using RoboForm and RoboForm2Go for nearly 2 years now to manage all of my online passwords. In a nutshell, it protects my vast array of online passwords (as of this writing, I have just shy of 90) in an encrypted manor with one master password. I have I’ve found one of the easiest products to use because it not only sites down near my Windows clock, but also attaches to both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox as toolbars.
I’ve updated my Microsoft Excel PingCell code that I wrote for this post. The new function returns all results from Win32_PingStatus back to Excel. You can now ping and choose the results you’d like to see returned (example below code). The Win32_PingStatus class is documented on Microsoft’s Website.
I recently came across an issue where I need to create a hyperlink in Microsoft Word 2003 that was roughly 300 characters long. Unfortunately, it appears that Microsoft had put some odd restriction in place on the maximum length of a hyperlink and it seemed I was out of luck. After a few minutes of googling turned up nothing, I was forced to find my own solution.