Microsoft Patch Breaks Zone Alarm
Got a call from a client today complaining that he could no longer access the Internet. He’s running Zone Alarm 7. Trek out to the site and lo and behold, we can ping IP addresses thru the firewall, but we …
Jeff Knapp
Stopping Shell Shortcuts from Resolving
We love Terminal Server. We think its a pretty great solution for small businesses; put a little more money into a server and you can keep your older hardware around. In setting up our terminal server environments, we like putting …
Remotely Find MAC Addresses on Your Windows Network
I had to find the MAC address of a remote machine on my network this morning. Happily, WindowsXP (and above) make this easy. They include a tool called getmac which does just that — it gets the MAC address of …
Bettr Spelling Through Firefox
Firefox, the browser of choice for those of us running Windows at Jephens Tech., has built in spell checking for big text areas. That doesn’t do us much good for these blog headlines and other one-line input fields… but the …
Stop the Beeping!
On my laptop, every time I connect to a wireless network, the Intel software pops up a notification window telling me that I’ve connected, but it is accompanied by a loud BEEP — even though my speaker is muted and …