Free FamilyShield filtering from OpenDNS

Posted on July 11, 2010, under Security, Web Dev/Tech.

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I have been using the OpenDNS domain filtering in my house for over a year, and have been very happy with the service. They have made it even easier to use for households looking to protect kids, by rolling out FamilyShield filtering. Without even needing to sign up for an account, you can use their service for free to block the following categories of web sites:

  • Pornography
  • Phishing
  • Malware
  • Proxy and anonymizer (for the “street smart” kiddos)

You can easily set up the service by following the walk-through instructions on configuring your router or computer’s DNS servers.

Zune – Reserved Space fixed with a device restart

Posted on June 12, 2010, under General.

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This last year, my 8GB Zune has been acting up a little when it comes to the Reserved Space on the device. Every so often I would receive a message that my Zune was full, only to see that Reserved Space was using over 1 GB of storage.

In the past, I would go through the not-too-painful-but-still-tedious process of reformatting and re-syncing all of the content.

I just discovered that I can simply restart the Zune, and when I connect it back up to my computer, everything is back to normal. I guess we still live under the principle of “when in doubt, reboot.”

Web Browsers – Trackable without cookies

Posted on May 18, 2010, under Security, Web Dev/Tech.

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Interesting proof of concept by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to show how the fingerprint of your web browser makes you trackable, even without the use of cookies:

Panopticlick

SharePoint/Office 2010 RTM Downloads

Posted on April 22, 2010, under SharePoint.

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The following are available on TechNet and MSDN:

  • Project Professional 2010 (x64) – (English) 272 (MB)
  • Project Professional 2010 (x86) – (English) 235 (MB)
  • Project Standard 2010 (x64) – (English) 245 (MB)
  • Project Standard 2010 (x86) – (English) 223 (MB)
  • Office Professional Plus 2010 (x64) – (English) 718 (MB)
  • Office Professional Plus 2010 (x86) – (English) 650 (MB)
  • SharePoint Server 2010 (x64) – DVD (English) 723 (MB)
  • Visio 2010 (x64) – (English) 343 (MB)
  • Visio 2010 (x86) – (English) 293 (MB)

Library of Congress to Archive Twitter

Posted on April 15, 2010, under Current Events, General.

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Library of Congress Archives Twitter History, While Google Searches It | Wired.com.

Really, of all things – Twitter??

Be careful out there with your 140 characters.

Disney’s efficient entertainment?

Posted on March 27, 2010, under Entertainment.

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Discover core databases for a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 farm

Posted on March 4, 2010, under SharePoint.

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Below are steps for one method to discover databases used by a WSS 3.0 farm. Log in to SharePoint Central Administration for each of these activities.

Configuration Database

  1. Go to the “Operations” tab
  2. Click “Servers in Farm”
  3. Under “Farm Information” see the following items:
    1. Configuration database server
    2. Configuration database name

Central Administration Content Database

  1. Go to the “Application Management” tab
  2. Click “Web application list”
  3. Click “SharePoint Central Administration v3″
  4. Under “SharePoint Site Management”, click “Site collection list”
  5. Under the root “/” site, look in the information table for the “Database Name” value

General Usage Content Databases

  1. Go to the “Application Management” tab
  2. Click “Web application list”
  3. For each web application listed other than “SharePoint Central Administration v3″ (see above), perform the following:
    1. Click the web application name
    2. Under “SharePoint Site Management”, click “Site collection list”
    3. For each listed site collection (by URL):
      1. Click the URL of the site collection
      2. In the information table, look for the “Database Name” value

Search Database

  1. Go to the “Operations” tab
  2. Under “Topology and Services”, click “Services on server”
  3. Click the text “Windows SharePoint Services Help Search”
  4. Under “Search Database”, look for the values:
    • Database Server
    • Database Name

VMware Player – Now creates 64-bit VMs!

Posted on January 25, 2010, under General, SharePoint, Web Dev/Tech.

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At home, I recently moved from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. On my Vista setup, I had VirtualPC installed to set up my own labs, installing servers and learning more about various server applications.

I was disappointed to see VirtualPC is no longer supported for Home versions of Windows. I was also disappointed to see the free VMware Server equivalent of VirtualPC had disappeared.

However, I just discovered the free VMware Player now not only runs VMs, as it always has, but also allows you to create them! You can also create and run 64-bit guest VM’s if you have the appropriate hardware, which I do. VirtualPC can’t do that. Sweet!

Update: A co-worker (thanks Shane!) mentioned to me the free VMware Server is still available. I’m going to try out Player, hoping it is more light-weight, and see how it goes first.

Nintex Workflow – “Run If” is King

Posted on November 17, 2009, under SharePoint, Web Dev/Tech.

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If you run into logic nesting issues using Nintex Workflow, remember that “Run If” is better than “Set a Condition”.

Walkie Talkie

Posted on November 9, 2009, under Entertainment.

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