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Early in 2008 after a couple of years of playing recreational Texas Hold ‘em with friends and free online, I decided that it was something I wanted to get a little more serious about. Not “professional” serious, but just a deeper understanding of the various strategies involved and how to come out a winner a bit more often than not. On the recommendation of a good friend, and resident poker guru, I picked up Phil Gordon’s Poker: The Real Deal. While I’m not certain I’m much of a talented review writer, I’ll certainly share my thoughts on the read.

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Chris Sports and Recreation Poker

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Chris Sports and Recreation Bush, Maine, Photography

I created the following function to create Microsoft SMS 2003 Client Configuration Requests from within Excel and dump them all out into a temporary directory for me to copy to the SMS inbox. For those that are unaware, you can “ask” SMS 2003 to remotely install the client by putting a CCR file into the INBOXES\CCR.BOX folder on the SMS Site server.

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Chris Random Code Microsoft Office, SMS 2003, VBA

Oddly enough, I often find myself needing to ping a list of computers from Excel. Usually it’s part of some asset management or software deployment exercise. If it’s a small list, I’ll often do it manually. Medium and larger lists usually warrant some type of batch file hitting the list and I just keep an eye on the results or have them pipe back to a text file. Recently I developed an Excel sub that would do the work for me and then return the results back to a column for me to sort and filter by.

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Chris Random Code Microsoft Office, VBA