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Windows 7 System Image Restore – Three Days of Frustration

18December2013GeekTieGuyUncategorized

If you ever need to recover a Windows 7 system image onto a new hard drive, I hope you donâ€™t have to go through the same pain I just did. It took me three days to get my main PC back in working conditionâ€¦ A few days ago Windows finally alerted me to an impending

Migrate Visual SourceSafe to Git – A short how-to

30November2013GeekTieGuy1 CommentMicrosoft, Personal, Software, Software development

My hobby/learning projects have been residing in a single-person SourceSafe database for a long time (yes, I know youâ€™re laughing; I donâ€™t care â€“ for single-person projects itâ€™s just fine and dandy.) It was time to start using something new. I wanted to migrate everything, including history, to git. The first step was to install

The impending XP-ocalypse – Take Action!

17November2013GeekTieGuyMicrosoft

The November 2013 issue of CVu (link available to accu.org members only, sorry) has an article from Silas Brown (The Windows XP Threat: A Call to Action), calling people to do something about the problem we all will face when Microsoft stops issuing security updates for Windows XP after April 8, 2014. The article has

Slack is to your organization as sleep is to your body

17October2013GeekTieGuyAgile

This is just to collect a few thoughts I had on June 28, 2013 to make them easier to find and refer to. This tweet started it: https://twitter.com/GeekTieGuy/statuses/350639064703176705 Here is what the next few tweets summarized: Slack is to your organization as sleep is to your body: time to regenerate and be inspired by dreams