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Archive for December, 2006

Christmas 2006

December 26th, 2006

What a fantastic Christmas this year. Lots of fun with the family. I introduced both sides of the family to the Wii and we had great times no matter what age or experience level with gaming. Time for the goodie list. » Read more: Christmas 2006

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Posted in Gadgets and Toys

Windows Vista Ultimate on Dell XPS M170

December 18th, 2006

I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my Dell XPS M170 laptop with all the fixin’s 3-days ago. I actually did the upgrade process and am now (pretty) happily up and running. I haven’t had alot of time to play with it until today since I received a Nintendo Wii for my birthday from my wonderful wife. I finally got into fixing all of the little things today. » Read more: Windows Vista Ultimate on Dell XPS M170

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Posted in OS Tricks

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- For new comers who haven’t read my stuff before, welcome. I am a technology and gadget addict with a 20+ year background in computers and networking. I have been developing in VB.NET officially for about 5 years and dabbled in automation languages (Perl, PHP, vbscript, etc.) previous to that. I have served several tours of duty on various help desks and even a telephone support role for a PC Manufacturer. I am now the network manager for a local school district and enjoying the change of pace from technical to managerial. I have several articles published with Novel Cool Solutions and love to write technical reviews and walkthroughs. I am an avid Linux user for solutions like MythTV, Asterisk and other appliance type solutions. I am also experienced in Windows since 3.11 and have 3 Windows 2003 Servers as well. I run hosted Exchange 2003 for a few clients as well as web sites. For the last several years I have been the director of product development for an unstructured text analytics start-up. After losing funding in that venture I was filling the days doing private consulting on a variety of support and implementation roles as well as some custom data portal development in the telecom damage recovery area for data collection. I also did several SharePoint implementations and continue to support the efforts of the start-up.
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