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- Download the Proper 64 Bit Opera for Windows
- Java Applet Failure in Accellion Product
- Archiving in the Land of On-Line Archives with Outlook
- Private Meetings Not So Private?
- Make Minute Adjustments in Your Mac’s ScreenSaver Time
- What Can You Do with an off-the-Shelf Android Phone?
- What Happened to the Propagation of Dates in Project?
- More for Copying Drives or Partitions
- Create a New OU with ADManager
- Undelay Typing in Office 2013
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Download the Proper 64 Bit Opera for Windows
As you probably have guessed, Opera is my preferred browser across all operating systems. I know they havea 64 bit version for Windows (as they do for Mac and Linux), but for whatever reason that particular version is tricky to … Continue reading
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Java Applet Failure in Accellion Product
We run a product, not too dissimilar from Dropbox, for sharing large files across company lines. Our product is made by Accellion and it works pretty well all things considered. Recently we ran into troubles with the Large File Uploader. … Continue reading
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Archiving in the Land of On-Line Archives with Outlook
History Back when Outlook used to require users to keep archived mail locally—you know, back when hard drives were small—there was a useful feature for automatically archiving mail along definable parameters (like age and size and so forth). Now that … Continue reading
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Private Meetings Not So Private?
One of my users reported that when they created a private meeting in a conference room using Outlook, the meeting was private for all users invited but public in the calendar for that room. Obviously that’s not very private. What … Continue reading
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Make Minute Adjustments in Your Mac’s ScreenSaver Time
Sometimes you want more granularity than a drop-down menu supplies. I found myself in this situation with start times for the screen saver on my Mac at work. I use the initiation of ScreenSaver as a means to lock my … Continue reading
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What Can You Do with an off-the-Shelf Android Phone?
Why not send it into space? Who wouldn’t want a tiny satellite all their own? You could do satellite stuff. NASA got busy with this slightly crazy concept and did just that. They bought three Nexus 1 Android phones, supersized … Continue reading
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What Happened to the Propagation of Dates in Project?
I had a user who was suddenly unable to interact with a Microsoft Project file and expect the reliant dates and times to change according to parent changes. In other words, there were project dates (or times) which relied upon … Continue reading
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More for Copying Drives or Partitions
We had a Clonezilla image that was too large and so I was testing out different possible methods for cramming that too-large disc image (500 GB) onto a smaller drive (150 GB). I tried just shrinking the partition on the … Continue reading
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Create a New OU with ADManager
Our helpdesk uses ADManager as a tool for making Active Directory changes. Though it is slower than accessing AD directly, it’s a pretty robust tool and it’s reasonably intuitive in most cases. However, I needed to create a new Organizational … Continue reading
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Undelay Typing in Office 2013
My team at work has been using Office 2013 for some time now. We’re vetting it for use company-wide I guess. I’ve already written about how ugly it is here, but now I’d like to write about a more pressing … Continue reading
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