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December 4, 2009 Too Many Files, or How PowerShell Saved me a lot of time.
I originally posted this on my personal blog, but it’s a interesting note so I figured what harm is a little cross posting. Had a small problem today. I do a lot of photography and back in 2004 I finally put down the cash for a DSLR and proceeded to shoot whacks of photos. And [...]
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November 29, 2009 Google Chrome OS
After building and playing with Chrome OS for the last little while and looking through a lot of the reviews that have been posted there’s little left to say. But the one thing that that they are doing that I really like is that they are segmenting out the users information from the operating system. [...]
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November 12, 2009 Wake on LAN
We have had some people asking questions about Wake On LAN in our products lately, and I thought that a quick post regarding what we are doing in the different products might be helpful to clear up some of the mystery surrounding Wake on LAN in our software. A lot of people see it as [...]
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October 10, 2009 More on Windows 7
I have seen a number of people emailing us asking about if we will be supporting the 64 bit version of Windows 7 with Deep Freeze. It’s looking like more and more people are eyeing installing a 64 bit OS for the first time so I can understand the question. YES Deep Freeze supports 64 [...]
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August 14, 2009 regular expressions
I got a note today from one of our customers pointing us to the following URL: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55572 While this tool will let you build a regular expression for filtering a specific IP range, there are some other pages on Google’s site that give a nice overview of Regular Expressions that can be applied to our [...]
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August 13, 2009 Windows 7 RTM
Well Windows 7 has finally hit the MSDN site so we have been able to put our hands on the RTM in the office and it’s running better on the hardware here than the RC’s did. I was one of those people who has stuck through running Windows Vista for the past few years and [...]
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August 10, 2009 New Deep Freeze version released
We have released a updated version of Deep Freeze to the masses today, the release notes for the changes we have made are listed below: Deep Freeze Standard Resolved an issue that could prevent installation from occurring successfully if a workstation had been updated to v6.52 or higher, then downgraded to v6.50, then updated to [...]
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July 27, 2009 Filtering in FCC
Many of our customers spend a lot of time making up custom groups in their installation of FCC (or any other management application) but a fair number miss out on some quick methods to organize computers via some simple tricks within Core Console. FCC allows users to create a series of automatic filters on user [...]
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July 16, 2009 FCC Tips and Tricks (Adventures in the database)
Heads up: this tip details some messing around in the back end of our database, if you don’t know what you are doing, or even if you do please give us a quick shout before making changes to the data within. There are things that you can do back there that will be very difficult [...]
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June 26, 2009 A customer testimonial.
We just got this email in from a customer today, it really speaks for itself: Dear folks, (I believe I talked to ******), I’ve trouble(-shooted? shot?) the issue covered by ticket ***-***** and it does not seem to have anything to do with DF. It was a medium-to-long shot, anyway. Thank you for all your [...]
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