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For services like pingdom that only allow X sms messages but unlimited email, this is great: replace phone# with your 10 digit number Alltel: phone#@txt.alltel.com ATT: phone#@txt.att.net Cingular: phone#@cingularme.com Nextel: phone#@messaging.nextel.com Powertel: phone#@ptel.net Sprint: phone#@messaging.sprintpcs.com SunCom: phone#@tms.suncom.com T-Mobile: phone#@tmomail.net US Cellular: phone#@email.uscc.net Verizon: phone#@vtext.com Virgin Mobile: phone#@vmobl.com

I just posted suggestions for what to do when you pull your computer out of the box. If you take a few hours and get backups and antivirus going, you will save heartburn later on. Think about it, you will probably get your next computer when this one dies. Will you be prepared for that? [...]

Windows vista remembers all the wireless networks you have ever been on. Once in a while you should hop in to control panel> network and sharing> Manage Wireless networks. Here you can drag your favorite networks to the top and delete those pesky ones from the bellagio in vegas.

1st – High performance – 2194 2nd – Power Saver – 1097 3rd – Balanced – 2194 So you can see that the CPU clock speed drops more than 40% in power saver mode on my Dell Precision 6300. So if you have ever wondered why your computer was so slow when it is unplugged, [...]

wmic cpu get CurrentClockSpeed I was trying to find about the quickest way to look for my CPU speed again. I think i like this little wmi one liner. Processor clock speed should be easier to look up, but MS thinks you want to know the model, stepping number before what it is to a [...]

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net statistics workstation Works great when you don’t want to trust the words out of your users mouth. Just look at the date and time it last started. not 100% accurate all the time, but I think the fastest check i know right now.

#1 fix – stop using Internet explorer. Use Google Chrome #2 fix – stop using IE and use Opera #3 fix – stop using IE and  Use firefox I strongly suggest you expand your horizons if you haven’t use a browser other than IE. You need to be able to troubleshoot problems to see if [...]

For people who need a gui to help with all of those pesky command line arguments, there is a gui version from the good people at MS. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160891.aspx Grab that little sucker and then look up the wikipedia article on robocopy to refresh your memory on what the switches mean.

Need to merge two files and keep only newer files? robocopy c:\folder1 c:\folder2 /E /XO Copy files between two servers and maintain permissions robocopy c:\folder1 \\server\sharename\destination /E /sec Robocopy is sweet because you can use it to sync folders, copy permissions, copy encrypted files, pretty much every file copy operation you can think of. Just [...]