Read it and weep. Now this is where gas prices should be!



$1.549

Mozy is an online backup company owned by EMC. I've been giving their software a spin for around a month now and have found it to work quite well. They have clients for Windows, Mac, and I think there was one for Linux too. They offer free accounts that allow for 2GB of storage but using my referral link you can get 2.5GB of storage. Yes, I too get an additional 512MB of storage space if someone signs up and uses it but that's just win-win.

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The software can be setup to backup all your documents, pictures, and videos or you can selectively choose the folders you want backed up. If you find you run out of room with the 2.5GB the service is only $5 per month if you want an unlimited storage account. That's right, unlimited backup space for only $60 per year.

Here is a very simple batch file that can be added to the network logon script in Active directory or simply in your startup folder in windows if you or your end users frequently run into this error:


@echo off
cd %userprofile%/local settings/temporary internet files/olk*
del *.* /s /f /q
exit


Batch file available here.

This batch file will simply navigate to the current user's temporary Outlook folder and delete all the files in the root and sub-folders. Just be careful you don't miss the %userprofile% variable, otherwise that command will delete all the files that happen to be in the current folder which is probably just the root of the user profile.

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I found this in a Meijer ad. I don't think anyone informed their marketing team that your DRM encoded iTunes songs won't play in your new Microsoft Zune. Thanks for the offer but 1600 Microsoft Points would have been a much better fit.

Labels: Fail, iTunes, Microsoft, Zune

It's September 2. Google Chrome launch day. There's electricity in the air. Everyone's hitting that refresh button on www.google.com/chrome as fast as possible. The install goes smooth. No annoying reboot needed. Fire her up. Hit up digg.com. Waiting... Waiting... Resolving Host... Why am I still waiting? This is supposed to be the fastest browser out there. What's going on?

Well, it took me a week before I finally sat down to troubleshoot why Chrome ran horribly on my work machine while it ran fine on the laptop and home machine. Seeing Chrome run on co-workers machines told me this was a problem related to networking on the machine and not just the Group Policy environment at work. After triple checking proxy settings, disabling my second network card, disabling Internet Connection Sharing, changing the adapter connection order and protocol binding order. Still nothing. Still awful performance.  I even installed Chromium to see if their nightly builds had a fix. As a last ditch idea I decided to take my second network card out of my system. Even though it was not plugged in and disabled. Fired the computer back up and Google Chrome is browsing at full speed.

If you're running into the same issue of horrible performance and have a multi-homed (multiple network cards) computer then remove your second network adapter. If your motherboard has dual NICs online then disable the second one in BIOS.

I've reported my findings to Google so hopefully they can find the bug and squash it in an upcoming update