Karl’s Place

Neat trick from WikiHow.

I love the quick startup after hibernation.  I’ve been using it for years.  But since upgrading my Latitude D610’s RAM from 1 GB to 2 GB recently, I often get the error “Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API” when trying to hibernate.

I should have Google’d it right away instead of suffering with it for a while.  A quick search led to KB909095, with a fix for the problem.  Too bad it’s not always that easy…

This from my friend Mark:

If you ever have need to extract files from a .MSI file, you can copy the file to a temp directory and from a CMD prompt type msiexec /a <msi_file_to_extract_files_from.msi> and it will run an administrative install of the MSI where you can direct the contents to go. Very handy…

The How-To Geek, which I will be reading regularly from now on, has a very nice article about svchost.exe — what it does and why there are so many instances of it running on our Windows machines.

Hear Laura Chappell, the network troubleshooting and packet inspection guru, on episode 6 of Ron Nutter’s Help Desk Tool Chest podcast (his interview with her is about 37 minutes in).

For more great stuff from Laura, see Wireshark University and www.packet-level.com.

David Allen speaks about the GTD strategy at Google.  Might be a good refresher if you’re trying to use the method…

From LinuxHaxor.   Another great tip found on lifehacker.

I was drawn to this site by A Visual Guide to Version Control, but there are also articles about Ruby on Rails, natural logarithms, and other topics related to numbers, programming, and business and communication—all areas that I’m interested in.

BetterExplained.com

Two magazines that regularly help me learn more about managing Windows server systems are WindowsITPro and Microsoft’s own TechNet magazine.

One reason that I love WindowsITPro is the searchable online archive. It’s worth subscribing just to get access to all of those articles.

Microsoft’s TechNet magazine is available online for free, and also contains a lot of good information. I especially enjoy the Scripting Guys. They have a column in the magazine, and you can also just go to the Microsoft TechNet Script Center.

If you work with Windows and haven’t checked out Windows Secrets, you need to. The free version is valuable. The paid version, which you get for contributing any amount of money, is even better.

The latest paid version had a possible fix for an issue I’ve been struggling with where svchost.exe takes 100% of my CPU for long periods.