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I really do need to get my sleep schedule back on track though. I've somehow drifted back into a 2pm to 8am life, and I'm not even sure how it happened. I actually woke up on Saturday and thought it was Sunday. Man, I'm all messed up! I've been helping a friend of mine setup some ISP stuff in his new office space, and he's graciously set aside a spot for me to plant myself, so hopefully I'll be able to keep myself on a more human schedule when we get some furniture to hold down the carpet. Even though I love working at home, sometimes it's just nice to get out of the house and be social for a while. I had to think for a minute in order to remember my neighbor's name yesterday! I need to get out more. At least I remember to brush my teeth, though.
Those of us that are Mac fans always eagerly await MacWorld because Steve Jobs usually has something new up his sleeve. iMac shipments have been seeing longer and longer lead times leading up to the conference, which has many people speculating about the possibility of new iMac models being announced this week. If I were you, I'd hold off on ordering anything until the announcements are made, because the new hardware will mean more power, and certainly price cuts on older models that are still perfectly usable. I've had my PowerMac G4 450MHz for nearly a year now, and I can't say that I'm squeezed for CPU at all. Full screen DVD playback at 1280x1024 is a bit weird, but other than that, I have no complaints.
Randy Nieland
GnomeNETWORK |
Renaming a Windows 2000 Domain
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q292/5/41.asp
Some people can't make up their minds when it comes to network design and naming conventions. No matter how much planning is done, some bonehead that doesn't actually have to do the work will decide that your Windows 2000 domain will have to be renamed. For what it's worth, it's possible, but in even a slightly complex network, it's a chore, to say the very least! I'm thanking my stars that the domain I recently had to rename consisted of only two servers, and no complex things to get in the way. Before you decide to take on such a thing, drop this on the bonehead's desk to show him what he's getting you into.
GnomeJOB |
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New York, NY
$125,000/year
One of the largest international law firms is looking for an NT Engineer who can support 1,300 users in an 80-server environment. The opportunities at this firm are endless! Besides doing heavy server work (building and maintaining), the ideal candidate will participate in various projects within the firms Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure groups. When involved in these projects, the candidate will be exposed to exciting new software and hardware technologies such as Firewalls, Tivoli, and others. In addition, the technology arm of the firm will be investing millions into building a new WAN Department, so for all of you Cisco junkies, this position presents a great opportunity. Prior corporate experience is preferred, yet the office environment is business casual.
GnomeSYSTEM |
CD-ROM/DVD Read Ahead Cache
http://members.aol.com/axcel216/newtip18.htm#CDMC
Older hardware means slower CD-ROM drives, and I've got both in spades! One thing I do have plenty of, however, is RAM. As long as I have the RAM to spare, kicking the read ahead cache values for the CD-ROM drive is high on my list of system tweaks. I had to dig this one back up because I haven't used it in so long, but it's one that I don't often see listed elsewhere. Because of the detailed information required, I'll let you read it from right where I found it. On faster CD-ROM drives, the impact is reduced, but it can still give you at least a bit of a kick, so if you use data CDs often, cache in on this registry hack!
GnomeASSISTANT |
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q258/1/87.ASP
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/13.ASP
Gnomie Eric Fickes passed along a couple of articles he scrounged up that describe how to integrate Office 2000 with web pages/sites. Web integration is one of the key technologies that Office has been migrating toward, but admittedly, it can get quite complicated. FrontPage makes it much easier, but if you need to modify the code that generates the pages, things get very hairy unless you're well-versed with the components involved. That's where these documents help out. One details techniques for loading and retrieving data with the spreadsheet component and the other provides a set of VBScript and Active Server Pages scripting samples for working with the spreadsheet data within a web page. Very cool stuff!
Database Reporting Newsletter
Hammerman Associates specializes in Crystal Reports training and consulting, which basically means that they know their stuff when it comes to generating and customizing database reports. They offer a free newsletter on the subject that offers tips on molding your reports, software tricks and, of course, they also tell you about their products and services. Also available online are tech tips and streaming lessons for those that register on their site.
GnomeSTUFF |
In the Beginning was the Command Line
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
"About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they deserved for being daring visionaries. But around the same time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with an idea even stranger and more fantastical: selling computer operating systems. This was much weirder than the idea of Jobs and Wozniak. A computer at least had some sort of physical reality to it. It came in a box, you could open it up and plug it in and watch lights blink. An operating system had no tangible incarnation at all. It arrived on a disk, of course, but the disk was, in effect, nothing more than the box that the OS came in. The product itself was a very long string of ones and zeroes that, when properly installed and coddled, gave you the ability to manipulate other very long strings of ones and zeroes. Even those few who actually understood what a computer operating system was were apt to think of it as a fantastically arcane engineering prodigy, like a breeder reactor or a U-2 spy plane, and not something that could ever be (in the parlance of high-tech) "productized." Download the rest of the article here."
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