September 2011
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Adobe Causing NVIDIA Driver to Crash/Stop
Recently had an issue wherein pulling up a PDF within Acrobat would cause my NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M driver to stop completely. Very annoying. Turns out the driver that was installed was an NVIDIA driver from 12/2010 (it’s 9/2011 right now). So, I updated the driver from NVIDIA’s site and that appears - at least for now - to have fixed it. We’ll see. (File this under:...
August 2011
2 posts
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Do you have the time?
I was in search of a way to determine from where our Windows 7 / Windows XP workstations were getting their local time. Well, we knew they were supposed to be getting their time from our DNS server but we just wanted to verify that. Turns out you can run the following command on Windows 7 to see just that: w32tm /query /status
This cmd returns the following information:
Leap Indicator: 0(no...
Mouse Cursor Moves On Its Own [SOLVED]
Yeah, so, I noticed about a day ago that my mouse cursor would move - ever so slightly - all by itself. My wireless mouse - which is plugged into my laptop - could be perfectly still but the cursor would still wiggle its way over my screen, slowly but surely. I could even unplug the wireless adapter from the USB port and the cursor would *still* move by itself. I looked up similar problems on...
October 2010
1 post
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Changes coming to the Android notification panel?
If you currently own, or have owned in the past, an Android-powered handset like the Motorola DROID or DROID X, you’ve most likely been annoyed by the same issue I have: not being able to clear just ONE notification from the slide-down notification panel.
Here’s a description of the problem:
“Currently, there are only two ways to clear a notification. The first being clearing...
April 2010
1 post
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Scheduling an IIS Application Pool Recycle
Just putting this information out there for anyone that might need it…
I recently got to a point at work where I needed to frequently perform a “recycle” event for an IIS application pool that we have running. (Had to do with a known bug in the software we were using - iMIS - and frequent recycling was the only temporary fix.) Anyway, instead of manually doing that every 2 hours...
October 2009
1 post
iMIS
I’m a bit surprised at how antiquated iMIS, even the most up-to-date versions, acts and looks. Please, people… it’s 2009. We don’t have to program like we’re in 1998.>
August 2009
2 posts
3 tags
Too Negative?
Okay, I’ve recently been accused of being a little too negative lately…especially when it comes to tech. (This company sucks, that service is horrible, etc.) So, I’d to try and reverse this trend if at all possible.
Now, there are a select number of individuals (those who sit near my cube) that know of my, um, dissatisfaction with HP. The last few years, their PCs and laptops...