http://talentlesshack.com Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:15:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fascinating article about the real roots of the economic meltdown, by the author of Liar's Poker Via http://talentlesshack.com/fiscally-irresponsible/239 A woman who my mother knows, Came in and took off all her clothes. Said I, not being very old, "By golly gosh, you must be cold!" "No, no!" she cried. "Indeed I'm not! I'm feeling devilishly hot!" Roald Dahl (of course) http://talentlesshack.com/ss/236 Another series of names for servers: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, Ceres, Phobos, Deimos, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, Atlas, Sedna, Eris, Charon, Gaspra, Mathilde, Eros, Nix, Hydra, Nereid, Prometheus, Pandora, Hyperion, Tethys, Calypso, Leda, Kuiper, Oort, Aldebaran, Altair, Antares, Arcturus,  Sirius, Rigel, Polaris, Regulus, Procyon, Deneb, ... http://talentlesshack.com/ht/234 "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." — ... http://talentlesshack.com/ss/231 Updated to WordPress 2.6.3 this morning. Piece of cake, as usual, and no issues so far. http://talentlesshack.com/am/223 I make a point of avoiding politics here, but the New York City Council really ticked me off today by passing an extension to term limits, in direct defiance of 2 public referendums, in what can only be called a backroom deal. You can find how your individual councilperson voted ... http://talentlesshack.com/cc/220 Tools, both online and off, for creating technical documentation (among other things). I'll add more as I find them. Gliffy: online diagramming software, for everything from network diagrams and technical drawings to flowcharts and floorplans Pencil: opensource add-on to turn Firefox 3.x into a sketching tool http://talentlesshack.com/ht/210 This may have just become my favorite music video. Via http://talentlesshack.com/ss/205 ...at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens -- change happens because the American people demand it, because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time. America, this is one ... http://talentlesshack.com/ss/202 Sometimes chaining application objects just doesn't cut it. Say you've got some files you need to distribute after an MSI finishes running, but you don't want to call the MSI install every time. Now, you could add the files to the original MSI, but if this is one that gets ... http://talentlesshack.com/ht/200 This will likely become a page unto itself as I add more of these. Search the contents of ALL filetypes (by default Windows only searches inside files with known extensions) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex Create a DWORD named FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions and set it to 1 http://talentlesshack.com/ht/183 Sidhedevil, recommending therapy: But ultimately, you're going to need to go back and fix the errors in the operating system, not just tweak the scripts. Via http://talentlesshack.com/ss/175 Apple hasn't done ZENworks administrators (or Active Directory ones for that matter) any favors with iTunes 8. The install is needlessly complex, and installs some crap you'd probably just as soon not have on your end users machines. Why would I want to give non-administrative accounts Apple Software Update? Additionally, ... http://talentlesshack.com/ht/169 Usually Prompted Macros in ZENworks application objects only prompt for values on their first runs. To create one that will prompt for a macro value every time, add the following to a Run after termination script (or append it to the end of your script if you already have one): RD ... http://talentlesshack.com/ht/135 I was trying to write an AutoIT script to manipulate the Firefox user.js preferences files, which are stored in the users' Firefox profile folders. Unfortunately with Firefox, the initial user profile is created in a "salted" directory under %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles. The folder name uses a randomly generated 8-character string followed by ... http://talentlesshack.com/ht/122 Because I work for a large advertising conglomerate - BrainStorm, ThinkTank, BrightIdea, WowFactor, BreakThrough, TechSavvy, PopCulture, MediaBlitz, StarPower, FastTrack, ComfortZone, GamePlan, TouchBase, HotConcept, MindSet, NextLevel, DayDream, KnowledgeBase, CriticalMass, RazorsEdge, OldSchool, TeamPlayer, WinWin, TaskForce, MileStone, CoreValue, MasterPlan Of course, I'll never get to use these...we'll wind up giving them some ridiculous set of ... http://talentlesshack.com/ht/56 In most situations, when I need to run an installation using Local Administrator rights on a locked down workstation, using ZENworks I can just set the Application Object to Run as unsecure system user and be done with it. This allows the installer to interact with the desktop so I ... http://talentlesshack.com/ht/118 שֵׁת ירד http://talentlesshack.com/am/105 Another server naming scheme, discarded because we have offices in places that actually experience these conditions. Maelstrom, Typhoon, Hurricane, Tsunami, Vortex, Whirlwind, Cyclone, Tempest, Tornado, Monsoon, Sandstorm http://talentlesshack.com/ht/98