January 31st, 2012

Identify waste in your day to day activities

Every wonder where your day went, but have a schedule that bounces around too much or you find a Time Management solution to cumbersome?

gTimeLog is a great micro-sized tool that just requires you type in when you start workging and then whatever task you’ve just finished through out the day…

It really helps you determine where you’re spending your time and where you’re wasting it… phone calls, web surfing, non-billable reading or distractions…

It has native install packages for Linux, but can be run on OS X or Windows by install the python development language packages…

Download it, see screenshots and read more here:
http://mg.pov.lt/gtimelog/

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January 14th, 2012

On the Fly Routing Tables Changes using Windows Scripting

There are some circumstances where you need to be able to “split tunnel” your network connection between an intranet and internet connection.  This especially comes into play when you’re connected to multiple VPNs at any given time.

To absolve yourself of having your fast internet connection reduced to a crawl because it’s piped through some throttled private network, you can modify your route table.

TechNET had a great article on the split tunnel concept and how to script your own route table changes (instead of having to hack it together on the command line.)

You can read more about scripting your own split tunnel route here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1003.mspx

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December 28th, 2011

How to reinstall networking on Windows XP

With the recent bout of XP Security 2012 infections I have been seeing a lot of machines with broken TCP/IP stacks.

The aftermath of completely purging an infection may leave your system unable to access the Internet or any networked resources.

The link below provided a clear guide on how to reinstall the TCP/IP stack on Windows XP.

http://smokeys.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/how-to-recover-a-really-dead-windows-xp-sp2sp3-tcpip-stack/

 

One thing you do have to change is that when re-editing the nettcpip.inf file after removing TCP/IP from your network adapters you need to put 0xA0 back into the file, not 0xa0.

 

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August 25th, 2011

Internet Explorer 9 layout…

With the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has changed the location of the Favorites button (again!)

 

Now it’s located in the upper right corner of the browser window just underneath the Maximize button.

 

Internet Explorer 9 Favorite List location

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