what’s the best way to develop any type of technical solution? through an open committee of course. you don’t really need to meet in person…what for? with e-mail (mailing lists), messaging forums, and so on. look at the linux kernel development for example, but i’m not just talking about coding projects. i mean any technical […]

ok finally got mandriva 2008.1 installed on my laptop. i chose to do an upgrade over 2008.0. the install kept cutting out because of some dust specks on the dvd..do i ever learn this lesson? linux installs are very very particular about having spotless discs. i’ve had windows discs scratched all to hell and still […]

i spend a terrible amount of time working on a deployment strategy for windows vista these days with benny and jim. tomorrow i’ll probably create a “base image” of a vista install from scratch and delve back into the sysprep. which is something i’ve put off for about 2 weeks out of frustration. a lot […]

built a notepad++ (probably one of the best gui text editors out there) bundle in ZCM. notepad++ is packaged with NSIS and the silent install switch is /S. tested the deployment a few times, works well. a schlage access control panel has been non-functioning for a few weeks now. tech support was positive it was […]

i’ve been working with benny on getting a method to remotely install and uninstall office 2007. i tried numerous times trying to get setup.exe /uninstall [product id] to work with no luck. in this case the product id should be 0030 for enterprise 2007. it would launch and complain that the office installation was corrupt. […]

attempted to upgrade my laptop to mandriva 2008.1 (spring) today. it quits in middle of loading the install complaining of media failure. i’m not surprised i burned the image on an old dvd-rw dug out of who knows where. will try again tomorrow.

i am currently seriously studying for the ccent/ccna tests. i don’t have much physical access to real cisco equipment and i most likely won’t take classes. so that leaves me with lots of self-study and simulator usage. exams seem to be 40-60 questions. i plan on taking the 2 test option ccent 640-822 then ccna […]

seems like you do learn something everyday. ok..so wordpress. yes i’ve heard of it. what i didn’t know was that it was a GPL project that can be downloaded. the only wordpress i knew was wordpress.com. so wow i’m excited. i’ve always liked the look of wp blogs. and categories?? yayy. and therefore i will […]