My Knowledge Base

November 3rd, 2010

I just updated my Knowledge Base:
– Added search box to the main page.
– Fixed the searches to search the “Solution” field too.
– Added comments support for KBs (comments for registered users are approved automatically, comments from guests must be approved by a moderator).
– Added list of softwares (with KBs) to the KB categories.

-Kobi.

Exchange 2010 SP1

August 27th, 2010

Hi all,

I’ve waited for Exchange 2010 SP1 for a long time and I must say I like:

– The ability to create mailbox archives on a different server/database (the ability to host the archives online is interesting too).

– The ability to reset corrupted virtual directories (yes, I’m a lazy person).

– Scripting Agent (I know I could do some of it with a daily script running on new mailboxes but still).

– New-MailboxRepairRequest.

– Distribution group naming policies.

– More GUI options for managing DAGs.

– The ability to install the required Windows roles/features.

– The ability to set Public Folder permission from the Exchange Management Console (welcome back!).

– Import/export .pst files without outlook.

– Soft-deleted mailboxes.

– SMS Sync looks a nice feature, I hope other mobile clients will support it too.

– Calendar publishing looks like a nice feature too.

P.S. in case it wasn’t obvious – I didn’t intend to list all the changes, just the ones I like! for the full list, check out http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459257.aspx

-Kobi.

Hybrid Fighter

August 12th, 2010

The oatmeal’s funeral

August 7th, 2010

(check out http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funeral)

TMNT

July 28th, 2010

Now, here is a picture…

TMNT

What it’s like to own an Apple Product

June 19th, 2010

This is a good one:

blogger –> wordpress

June 8th, 2010

As you can see I finally migrated my blog to wordpress, some time ago blogger has decided to stop their ftp publishing service so I had three options:
1) Migrate to a blogspot address
2) Use a custom sub-domain (i.e. blog.kobi.name)
3) Migrate to wordpress

I like my data and I wanted to keep it on *my* servers hence I chose the 3rd option.

The migration took about 5 minutes. I had to run three queries to fix posts/comments that started with a “>” (for some reason) but that’s about it:
update wp_posts set post_title=right(post_title,length(post_title)-1) where left(post_content,1)=’>’;
update wp_posts set post_content=right(post_content,length(post_content)-1) where left(post_content,1)=’>’;
update wp_comments set comment_content=right(comment_content,length(comment_content)-1) where left(comment_content,1)=’>’;

If anyone else wants to move their blog from blogger to wordpress check out:
http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress
http://ferrogate.com/2009/04/the-new-ferrogate-i-moved-from-blogger-to-wordpress.html

-Kobi.

PDFmyURL

February 15th, 2010

I found a nice website that lets you save webpages as PDFs:
http://pdfmyurl.com/

-Kobi.

I shaved my beard!

February 1st, 2010

Yeah, it happened again. I wiped both my beard and my moustache. What do you know, I almost look like a human being now.

Notes:
1) I said *almost*.
2) I said *look like*.

-Kobi.

Interesting way to debug slow logons

January 21st, 2010

Mark Russinovich (Sysinternals) wrote an interesting post of how to use PsExec and Process Monitor to debug slow logons:

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2010/01/13/3305263.aspx

-Kobi.

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