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One of the things that keeps people from upgrading to Windows 7 is those ancient old IE6-dependent web applications because IE6 is not supported on Windows 7. This particularly happens at enterprise environment where many Line of Business applications were developed many years ago when IE6 still dominants. Rewriting those apps isn't easy ...

IT Service View is a free network monitoring tool that can work with Windows servers via agent-less WMI call and other network devices like hubs, routers through SNMP. Not only is it free but has no device limitations as well. It is developed by Serio, a hosted SaaS IT service management software provider. ...

I recently had a task job scheduled in one of Windows server 2008 but kept getting a return code 2 every time it runs. Task Scheduler successfully completed task "\RoomView" , instance "{fcc8337a-11b2-4e69-b101-a58bb8d18ead}" , action "C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe" with return code 2. Obviously, even though it says Task Scheduler successfully completed ...

If you are an IT pro like me and are feeling burnout sometime, you should check this list out from time to time. They are the 10 things you and I may be doing that ultimately lead to poorer performance and an unhealthy lifestyle. And we all, doing IT for living, should be avoiding. ...

The 10 things from TechRepbulic called it 10 problems with outsourcing IT but I’d like to call them hidden facts instead. Here they are: 1. Real cost, aka the hidden costs, such as travel time, learning skills, that could be easily overlooked. 2. Time factor. Things like when it’s emergency, you never ...

Here is an example of using a new cmdlet in PowerShell v2 called Get-WinEvent to pull a list of events from Windows event log, restart events in particular. Copy the following code and paste to PowerShell window, and execute it. {code type=codetype} Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{logname='System'; id=1074}  |   ForEach-Object {     $rv = New-Object PSObject | ...

As Chris Rawson said in his post "OSX and iOS are not jails": As Harry McCracken points out, even the most deeply "imprisoned" of us still have the choice to not buy Apple's products, to not use Apple's software, and to dedicate ourselves to free software and open platforms instead. The ...

I am a big fan of Apple, mostly because of its life changing product, iPhone. But Apple was in my career right from the beginning when I was in colleague in mid of 1980s. The first Apple computer I used in the computer room in the school was something like this: I spend the large part ...