2003 SBS – Repairing Black Logon Screen
A client of mine had an issue of the 2003 SBS Server’s logon screen having black fields. The user name, password and domain fields were black and you could not see what you were typing unless you ran your mouse over the field to highlight it. I found a Microsoft article that describes an easy fix. […]
The Data Studio – Award Winners!
Congratulations to our Business Intelligence Consultant Darren Evans, whose visualisation for World Aid Donors and Receivers was voted most Beautiful Visualisation This Week on the Tableau Public website. Tableau Public is a free application from Tableau Software, which allows anyone interested in publishing data visualisations to the web to do so easily. You will see […]
Visualising Golf Tournament Results
Warning! This post discusses disc golf. If you’ve not heard of it, just imagine I’m referring to “normal” golf. The US Disc Golf Championships, the world’s toughest, and richest event is happening this week. The leaderboard’s on the PDGA.com, and on the USDGC sites are ok, but don’t reveal very much. Here’s my leaderboards, made […]
Telecoms companies: who’s suing who?
There’s a chart doing the rounds that shows who is suing whom in the telecoms industries (eg at the Guardian). David McCandelish has improved it nicely here, and asked the question of whether companies who’s revenue is going down are more litigious than those on the rise. Well, I took his data from here and […]
Command-line tool for rescanning for devices.
Have you ever had a Plug N Play or USB device that never worked right after removing it from the computer and plugging it back in, or a suspend/resume? One of our clients does external USB drives for an offsite backup once per week. This drive wasn’t being automaticly recognized when it was plugged back […]
Outlook “Can not open window”
If you have ever had issues with getting Outlook to open you will have found most them have to do with addins that are allowed but done always function. Recently I came across an issue that would not allow the user to open Outlook not even in safe mode or after a repair of Office. […]
How to list User rights on folders
Have you ever had to create a list of all the users that have access to some folders? If you’re messing with a file server this list can get huge really fast. luckily there is a free tool that can do all the work for you. It’s called showacls.exe To use it you will need […]
Charts inside a tooltip? Yes, we can.
[Update: in theory, v6.1.1 has made it easier to create the bars described in this post by using REPLACE() and SPACE(). However, at time of writing (19 Aug 2011) there is a problem: while the solution works fine in Tableau Desktop, the view won’t display on Tableau Public – have a look at the “Using […]
Tips, hints, and just general know-how (continued…)
Ok Bloggers and bloggees, this next tip should be useful for those serious network technicians: Action: You have a client that needs their server(s) shutdown, but nobody on staff knows the location of the server, let alone the location of the power button on said server. Re-Action: If you can remote onto their server […]
Triple bogeys in golf: your fault or the course designer’s?
I played in the Croydon Cyclone last weekend, a part of the British Disc Golf Association national tour. One hole’s layout was controversial. It’s short, a distance that almost any player can reach from the tee. The designers spiced things up by surrounding the basket and most of the fairway with Out-of-Bounds areas that incurred […]
