by Aaron Parker on January 28, 2010
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I’ve been a fan of FeedDemon for several years now and was even a paying customer of the 2.x version, so this post is a little biased – you may be able to do something similar in other feed readers.
I find subscribing to feeds at the Citrix Blogs site just a little vexing. I could [...]
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Citrix,
FeedDemon
by Aaron Parker on August 18, 2009
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While attempting to unzip a file this afternoon, Windows was just not going to play ball:
That’s 5.99 petabytes – I’m probably not going to see that much storage space in a desktop machine for a few years. Although I’m not sure why there is a ‘Try Again’ button on this dialog box, maybe it’s expecting me [...]
by Aaron Parker on February 24, 2009
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OK, I’m not one for conspiracy theories (well there is the whole JFK thing), but compare the new Apple Safari 4 beta against Google Chrome. Here Chrome in all it’s glory:
And here’s the new Safari 4 beta:
Notice the similar window style and button layout? Apple knows Google is onto a good thing. Still not convinced? - [...]
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Apple Safari,
Google Chrome
by Aaron Parker on February 22, 2009
in General
Here’s a few articles that I’ve been reading recently and I thought it might be worthwhile sharing them:
Kevin Reeuwijk has an article on integrating App-V 4.5 with SCCM 2007 R2, but shows us how to get the best of both worlds - How to integrate App-V with SCCM without losing the features you care about.
Mark Wilson [...]
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App-V,
Patch Management,
Profiles,
SCCM,
UAC,
Windows 7
by Aaron Parker on January 22, 2009
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Yes it’s true, and I’ll freely admit it. In addition to that, Ravi has convinced me to give Twitter a go. So I have and you can follow me (because I know you want to) at http://twitter.com/stealthpuppy. I promise to keep it on topic – mostly.
by Aaron Parker on July 10, 2008
in General
There are three tools that I use for creating and managing screen shots for documentation and posting here on my blog:
Windows Clippings
Paint.NET
PNGOUT
Now I can’t claim that I discovered these tools myself and they’ve been covered elsewhere probably more eloquently, but I think they’re worth pointing out again. Of course, what works for [...]
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Paint.NET,
PNGOUT,
Screen Shots,
Window Clippings
by Aaron Parker on March 26, 2008
in General
Michael over at 4sysops has taken a shot at the Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides and I’m left scratching my head. His beef with the guides is that they haven’t yet been updated for RTM and still include some older terminology:
In this manual, they still talk about “Windows Server virtualization (wsv)†even though wsv was [...]
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Windows-Server-2008