Today a collegue came into the office with the problem of being unable to access a contacts list once she was composing an email. The help for this in Microsoft Outlook is actually not too helpful, but the solution is actually simple. All you need to do in right hand click on the contact list [...]

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It looks like Windows Server 2008 will have some pretty hefty enhancements when it comes to terminal services and thin client computing. We currently use Windows Terminal Services on Windows Server 2003 at our work and it greatly helps in our administrative load and the number of systems that we need to support, so some [...]

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When I booted up my thinkpad T60 yesterday morning and tried to use the fingerprint login I got the error message that the hardware was not connected, with only 2 months left on my warranty – it was looking like I was going to have to send it back. Before I did that however I [...]

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I have had a note on my desk listing the ports needed for Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to work. I’ve used the VPN ports for opening up our firewall and for setting up our QOS (Quality of Service). Here is the list of VPN Ports from my desk: Ports Needed for PPTP VPN – TCP [...]

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I’m in the process of learning vs2005.net. Every once in a while I run into a problem that makes me run to Google. This is no exception. I wanted to validate the the asp.net CheckBoxList control to make sure that at least one item from the list was checked. I found this wonderful sample code [...]

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What a terrible idea… and yet very useful. Let me explain. If you are a web developer you will have to test you web apps or sites on IE, specially because IE lives in it’s own little world but still a lot of people use it. Anyway, I came across this application IE4Linux which installs [...]

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