Windows media files suck. The fact that you have historically not been able to easily convert WMV files to QuickTime sucks even more. I can’t count the times I’ve been banging my head against the wall wishing I could turn a WMV file into something more reasonable.
It will set you back $50.00 , but I [...]
It seems that when you manage a bunch of machines with Symantec Ghost, you always end up with one or two that, for whatever reason, get stuck in the Ghost Virtual Boot Partition, and can’t boot back into windows. This can be really frustrating because you usually know what went wrong, and need to get [...]
Because Symantec Ghost expects that everyone is going to use a “real” Active Directory Domain Controller, it fails when trying to automatically join samba domains, and I’ve always had to visit each machine after imaging it to manually join the newly imaged system to our domain. Needless to say, this is annoying when you manage [...]
While my job mostly has me working with Solaris and Mac OSX systems, I’m occasionally forced to go slumming and deal with Windows. What can I say, we can’t always like every aspect of our jobs. Anyhow, yesterday I had to move our Symantec Ghost control console from one box to another. Sadly, it’s not [...]
