Ok so I took some short cuts. I wouldn’t say this is the best way to do this but I was desperate so I didn’t care too much. Besides it all worked out in the end.I wanted to dual boot to XP so I could play games. I get about 10-15 frames per second better [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Cisco Academy – Day 1
So my first night at the Cisco Academy went exactly how a first day of any college class goes. Basically you don’t do much except go over the syllabus and nothing works right in relation to the computers. We spent the first 1/2 of the class watching the System Administrator install the Cisco software just [...]
Cisco Academy
Very shortly tonight I’ll be attending my first Cisco Academy class. I’ll post updates regarding what I learn and how it’s going. Maybe somebody out there will find this useful information. Especially if they are considering plunking down so dough for the education. Of course the end result is hopefully a CCNA cert. addthis_url = [...]
Online Financal Software
Yehaw! I’ve been using Quicken Online for a few months and it’s a fine service except that I have to pay for it. Ok $2.99 per month isn’t much but still that’s $36 a year basically and I’m cheap. I tried and tried other online financial software like Mint.com and Wesabe.com and while they provide [...]
Jott goes Premium
Jott, the words to text generator, has gone premium, and good for them. I often wonder how these Web2.0 services will ever stick around if they have no business plan, you can’t keep getting venture capital forever. Anyho, I love the service and I will keep on using it but I’m opting for the free [...]
Install problems because of pendingfilenameoperation.
Ok I don’t have the specifics because they were lost, however I had a problem loading ADP’s Payroll application on my XP Pro machine. It would fail. I was talking to ADP’s tech help and they remoted in and removed an entry in my registry. The entry was called pendingfilenameoperation and in the value of [...]
Problems with Windows Updates and XP SP3
I started having problems with Windows Updates after installing XP Service Pack 3. The install of the updates would fail. After it failed Windows would ask me to install them during shutdown but that didn’t work either. I installed SP3 right after it came out. Soon there after Microsoft pulled it and released it again [...]
A way to give out / manage tickets?
At my work we have season tickets to the Pepsi Center here in Denver, CO. The Receptionist is in charge of distributing extra tickets to employees. This can become a bit cumbersome. So I’m looking for a system (home made or premade) that can help her do this. Ideally it would be something that the [...]
Creating a domain default user profile.
Because its been so long I forgot. http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/47534/how-can-i-set-the-default-domain-user-profile.html addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fblog.thenitetechs.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fcreating-a-domain-default-user-profile%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Creating+a+domain+default+user+profile.’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: Knowledge Base