I’ve had my MSI Wind U100 for about 7 months now so it’s about time I wrote a quick review. In a 2 line summary I would say that this is the best netbook I have seen. It is cheap, fast, easy to use and highly portable. I bought this netbook specifically because I was [...]

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There is an old but good reference on the Microsoft support site that givea some clarification on how Windows presents time stamps (eg event logs, NTFS times) to the user. Of particular note is this paragraph: If you are viewing another machine remotely across one or more time zones through Event Viewer, the times for [...]

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In the past I’ve used a variety of remote desktop management tools to manage the numerous amounts of RDP sessions that I need to maintain everyday. I’ve recently come across a fantastic free one called Terminals.  It allows a variety of connections including RDP, VNC, VMRC, Telnet, ICA & SSH, and best of all it [...]

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As we know, in a domain environment, domain controllers sync with the PDCEmluator and then workstations and member servers choose one available DC in the domain for the time sync. If something does not work and you have errors in the event viewer about time sync, make sure that port 123 udp is openend on [...]

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The guys over at www.insideocs.com have released a great little simple tool that reteives the versions numbers of Office Communicator and Live Meeting Client installed on your machine. A great time-saving little tool for troubleshooting. The link is http://www.insideocs.com/Tools/ClientVersions.html The HTA is also available here: http://blog.danovich.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ucclientversion.hta

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