September 2006 – GeekTieGuy

Plugging CSA’s

25September2006GeekTieGuyEnvironment, Opinion, Personal

“What the heck is CSA?”, I hear you cry. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and it’s the wave of the future in food as far as I’m concerned. Okay, maybe that’s putting it a bit strongly, but if you care about your local environment and like to eat fresh, organically grown produce, hear this

How to connect to older Samba server versions using Vista RC1

18September2006GeekTieGuy1 CommentVista

I ran across an issue with my home network server, which is running an older version of Linux and Samba to share files around the house. Vista RC1 wouldn’t authenticate with the server. After some digging using Google I found out that you need to change one of the local security policies (Local Policies –

Ghosting a Vista RC1 drive using Ghost 8.x

17September2006GeekTieGuyVista

I had to do this recently to make a backup of a system hard drive for “just in case”… I found some instructions using Google (https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=181082&SiteID=1)Â and here is the gist of what needs to be done (to spare you from having to read the whole thread): Run aÂ command prompt as Administrator andÂ do the following: BCDEDIT

Vista from a developer’s point of view

9September2006GeekTieGuy2 CommentsVista, WPF

To me Windows Vista marks a great new milestone for software developers. Not just because Microsoft invested years of development into a new programming framework, but because that framework will be included out of the box. Until now, if you wanted to take advantage of the power of the .Net Framework (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0)

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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Plugging CSA’s

How to connect to older Samba server versions using Vista RC1

Ghosting a Vista RC1 drive using Ghost 8.x

Vista from a developer’s point of view