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Java’s been updated again. For the fifth time this year.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:56:09 +0000

Seriously, Java and Flash and Acrobat have been updated so many times this year, you could almost make a drinking game out of it. Java is on update number five for the year, and it’s only the first week of

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Scripting Windows sysadmin tasks

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:14:11 +0000

I mentioned a couple of days ago a coworker’s philosophy about sysadmins and scripts that automate most tasks. Here’s a site that has a lot of useful one-liners. http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntadmincommands.php And Rob Vander Woude’s site touches on this, but the FOR

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Using Robocopy to root out PST files

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:48:15 +0000

So the word came out that the office is migrating to Windows 7 at some yet-to-be-determined time, but soon. It’s in testing now. (Too bad they didn’t recruit me as part of the testing team, because breaking Windows 7 is

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Outlook send button is gone? Here’s the fix.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:54:29 +0000

“My Outlook send button is gone,” one of my coworkers told me. Microsoft wasn’t much help. The relevant knowledge base articles said the e-mail account not being configured causes that problem. Except it was. He could receive and read mail just

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Oh yeah. I have a Web site.

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 08 Nov 2001 04:50:54 +0000

You ask me how I am
And all I can say is I still exist...
--lyrical snippet I wrote in 1997

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All day I couldn’t wait ’til Tuesday…

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 07 Aug 2001 13:05:23 +0000

First, a diversion. I came home, popped in Peter Murphy's Deep, which I'd never listened to, and I called a friend. An hour later all was well with the world. Well, not really. But Dave's world was fine.

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