Here is a quick summary of BDD 2007 issues from a very informative article. * Number 1 – Partitioning within the Unattend.xml * Number 2 – XP disk partitioning * Number 3 – Trying to deploy images with WDS * Number 4 – Failure to join the domain * Number 5 – Drivers * Number 6 – Creating custom WIM image without using /flags * Number 7 – SQL connectivity * Number 8 – Memory requirements for Vista PE * Number 9 – Not removing the MININT folder * Number 10 – Adding Windows PE to console If you know [ Read More ]
Ever gone to a site that had those infernal double underlined words that no matter how hard you tried to not hover the mouse pointer over still managed to pop up those annoying IntelliTXT windows with basically useless information? Well I have been seeing them more and more often and I finally got sick and tired of dealing with them. Below you will find three quick fixes for IE7, Opera and Firefox. Sorry I have not found one for Safari yet if you know of one please drop the link in the comment section. Programmer Brian Donovan has written a [ Read More ]
Every standards-compliant, Google-sensitive image reference should contain 5 key items: 1. A src attribute specifying the URL of the image 2. A width declaration in which the width of the image is specified in pixels 3. A height declaration in which the height of the image is specified in pixels 4. An alt attribute that describes the content of the image—this is the #1 element of image-oriented SEO 5. A title attribute that contains text to be displayed when the user hovers his/her mouse over the image For this example, we’ll use the image of a yellow hot air balloon [ Read More ]
The site SpeedTest.net allows you to select servers to ping from around the country on an interactive map and graphically displays connections as they travel with varying speeds along the way. It also lets you store results of tests for your computer and sort them by date, time, speed and distance. Now what I really like about this site is not only does it do what alot of other bandwidth testing sites do and show you your upload/download speeds it also lists latency numbers between you and the server that you chose. And allows you to play the “I wonder” [ Read More ]
Twitter’s rising popularity and the huge number of Twitter-related tools and mashups has been impossible to ignore. Instead of writing a new entry every time a new one appears, it’s much more convenient for the readers it they’re all in one big categorized list. *note: this list will be constantly updated as new Twitter tools are found Desktop clients Triqqr – a simple, early beta Windows application for posting tweets from your desktop. TwitBox – a Windows Vista based desktop client for viewing and updating tweets. Twitteroo Windows Desktop client, with several advanced features, that enables you to post to [ Read More ]
So what do you do if you have Firefox installed and you have it setup just the way you think you want it with all the best extensions and all the most usefull GreaseMonkey Scripts and then it crashes? I had this happen to me for the first time this past week and needless to say I was a little miffed. I tried to use Windows XP’s system restore to fix what ever it was that I had done to crash things. But that did not help. I tried to uninstall Firefox. Then to reinstall it. I even tried to [ Read More ]
Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame. Every one of us has been in that bind where a site or service will ask you for your e-mail address and you just don’t want them to have it cause you’re tired of junk mail. Guerrilla Mail is free service that will answer your calls; it will create a timed 15 minute temporary e-mail account for you to use including a temporary mailbox that only requires [ Read More ]
