relatively irrelevant
There are many ways for a system administrator to deploy software to computers on a domain. This post describes how to create a Group Policy that will deploy a Scheduled Task to your target machines that will run a batch file to perform the installation. You might ask why I would bother with a Scheduled …
Continue reading “Deploy software via Group Policy’s Scheduled Tasks”
I’m typically pretty good at backing up my computers. One of my most prized piece of data is the GEDCOM file that contains a decade of genealogy research — more than 18,000 linked relatives. I often upload a copy of my genealogy database once a quarter to sites like www.ancestry.com, jasonpearce.tribalpages.com, and www.rootsweb.com about once …
Prior to last week’s iPhone 3.0 upgrade, I listened to about four hours of podcasts a week; now I listen to twice as many thanks to the x2 playback option. Although playback is twice as fast, the pitch is unchanged so it doesn’t sound like chipmunks. I now consume more podcasts than I watch TV …
On Tuesday, 22 Jun 2009, Microsoft released a beta version of its upcoming free anti-virus product, code named Morro. When I checked the site this morning (24 Jun 2009), the download link had been removed and the following Alert was posted: Thank you for your interest in joining the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta. We are …
Continue reading “Microsoft Security Essentials Beta no longer available”
This weekend I played with a few free panorama photo stitching programs. In particular, I tested out freeware AutoStitch, freeware GigaPan Stitcher, and open source Hugin (with plugins Panorama Tools, Enblend, and Autopano-SIFT). In short, AutoStitch was the easiest tool to use and produced panorama/stitched photographs equally as well or better than GigaPan or Hugin. …