Notification Test Tool

The Notifications Test Tool is a simple tool you can use to test your notification channels and subscriptions. This tool can be used to test email (SMTP), Instant Message (IM) or Text message (SMS) channels. Also, you can use this to generate a test alert in OpsMgr to test subscriptions.

Install Instructions:

Download and install the OMTestTool.msi to a local directory on your computer.

Note: This tool must be installed on a computer that has the OpsMgr console installed and run from someone logged as a local admin. To run the tool you must me a member of the OpsMgr Administrator group.

I have included a small user guide in the zip file. This tool will work on all version of OpsMgr. I plan to update this tool to support multiple channels types that R2 now exposes when I get some time.

Note: If you are running this tool on an OS where UAC is enabled please make sure to right click and run as Administrator.

Enjoy!

Rob Kuehfus | System Center Operations Manager | Program Manager

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/05/19/notifications-test-tool.aspx

So I now use TeamViewer. It’s free for personal use and works with both Windows and (rotten) Apple’s.

Simply choose the software you want and run the installer. Your favorite apps installed silently and with any junk automatically removed (i.e. Toolbars and adware).

I don’t normally trust these things but this one is really good.

Search Commands is exactly what I’ve been looking for.

• Format a USB flash drive to FAT.

• Download 3309.zip from ftp://ftp.acer-euro.com/netbook/aspire_one_110/bios

• Unzip.

• Move all of the files to the root of the flash drive.

• Rename 3309.FD to ZG5IA32.FD (May not be necessary).

• Put USB drive in to Aspire One.

• Make sure you are on AC power.

• Hold down Fn+Esc and press the power button until it starts blinking.

• Release the Fn+esc and power button (which is still blinking).

• Press power button once and wait until it reboots (depending on the flash drive you may see the activity light flashing).

• High five yourself or swear out loud depending on whether it has booted properly.

Well that’s what worked for me anyway.

Use Google Reader? Want an RSS feed of only unread item? Then hears how!

The secret is subtraction, you need to take your reading-list feed and remove all items with a read tag.

As an example here’s what the reading-list and read feed url’s should look like

http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/YOURUSERIDGOESHERE/state/com.google/reading-list

http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/YOURUSERIDGOESHERE/state/com.google/read

Too find out your user ID go to reader.google.com and then enter this line of javascript into the address bar
javascript:prompt("User ID", _USER_ID);void(0); you should then get a popup with your ID

So to get the unread feed you put it all together like this

http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/YOURUSERIDGOESHERE/state/com.google/reading-list?&xt=user/YOURUSERIDGOESHERE/state/com.google/read

So now I’ve got the Vista RSS Feed gadget (running on XP just to be awkward) displaying a list of my unread items.

Yay!

So that means it’s time to grab your helmet and dress like your gay!

It’s on the 18th of July for those that need to know.

The Great Apathetic Revolution

As every nerd knows, copy protection – more accurately describable as “copy control” – works backwards.

And yet there seems to be more of the bloody stuff with each passing year.

The marketing people babble on about how Digital Rights Management “enhances” your “enjoyment” of a product. But what copy control really does is make ripped-off stuff better than the legal version.

The most obvious example of this is the difference between illegally downloaded movies and commercial DVDs.

To view a downloaded movie, you double-click it. And then you’re watching it.

Stick a recent commercial DVD into your player, though, and you’ll probably have to sit through lengthy, un-skippable warnings about how dastardly is the piracy which you did not just engage. And that’s before you even get to the annoying menus, trailers, and other dross that stand between you and the movie for which you, one might start to think foolishly, paid.