Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Well, seems there won’t be any PowerTools for Vista and one of my favourites was the resizer tool but this little ditty more than makes up for it … and it’s free too. http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/image_resizer.php

Make sure you know the ramifications (this is a reminder to myself too 🙂 re: Disk I/O, recovery time (bigger databases take longer to repair and restore), etc. References:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890699 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998894.aspx

http://www.mxtoolbox.comNice, simple interface. Rockin’ RBL and SMTP checkup tool.

Well, this was a wierd one and worthy of blogging. After much troubleshooting (of hardware, drivers, fresh profiles, etc. using the file transfer settings wizard, which migrated the ‘problem’ :)… A user could login to Windows XP, but could not use the keyboard once logged on. In fact, the keyboard appeared powered up but even …

Customizing Outlook Profiles by Using PRF Files – Office 2003 Resource Kit – Microsoft Office Online Plus, get the ORK here:http://www.microsoft.com/office/orkarchive/2003ddl.htm

IKEA | IKEA Planner Tools download page Don’t mind me. Just storing a bookmark for something I find hard to find on Ikea’s website (3d office design software)

Need to know your mail is working? Sounds like this service might do the job and the price seems reasonable. http://www.mailive.com/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283037 My 64bit Windows 2003 (Standard) systems don’t need this but even good ole Windows 2003 Enterprise won’t pay any attention to more than 4GB of memory unless the /PAE switch is on. If you have Exchange, you will probably want the following (as it can’t really use more than 4GB of memory – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823440/en-us: …

Well, I’m still not sold on this but will get around to trying it… Old: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1023&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=12414443&stateId=0%200%2012410672 Current:Using Two-Way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing (Experimental) For all supported configurations of 32‐bit and 64‐bit host and guest operating systems running on multiprocessor host machines, VMware Server provides experimental support for two‐way virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing (Virtual SMP). Virtual SMP lets …

At the end of the day, you really shouldn’t have anything in your Outlook Inbox and here is why: Stress: Emails in your inbox mean something is left undone. Every email should have one of the following five actions, thus meaning it shouldn’t be in your inbox at the end of the day 1. Discard …