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Classic Menu in Microsoft Word 2007

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:34:43 +0000

With the release of the Office 2007 suite, Microsoft made some radical changes to the UI. Gone were the menus and toolbars, replaced by the “Ribbon”

I’ve seen many users (including myself) struggling with the new user interface. It’s not that the concept of the Ribbon isn’t good, it’s rather the time it takes until you find the new location within the Ribbon to do something you have been doing for years with the old classic menu with just a few clicks.

Active Directory Limits

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:49:17 +0000

Interesting in knowing how many objects you can create within AD ? how deep your OU structure can be ? Then read “Active Directory Maximum Limits”.

Power Consumption in standby mode

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:11:27 +0000

I have come across an article that describes the power consumption of equipment in standby mode, found it quite interesting.

Some applications survive

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:35:30 +0000

Throughout my IT career i have seen many application development projects but most applications would not have survived more than 5 years until they got replaced by a new one. So I was quite pleased to find this success story about a software that is still being used by a company i once worked for and I was even one of the initial application architects of that application. Looks like this application made its Return On Investment.

About disk drives

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:57:33 +0000

Today we had a brief discussion about the impact of power cycles on the disk drive lifetime. In searching for some background information on this subject, I found the followiing.

http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/pubs/factsheets/sw/ComputersMonitors.pdf http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf This is not directly related but found it a nice story so i post it as well. http://storagemojo.com/category/disk/

Reading TechNet Magazine offline

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:32:57 +0000

staying up to date is key when working in IT. As mentioned in an earlier post, i spend nearly 2 hours a day traveling to work and back home. Today i just noticed that TechNet Magazine is also made available as a HTML help file, so looks like i have another source for reading now.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc135917.aspx

Unfortunately the articles aren’t consolidated in one file, but every months issue is made available in a separate download. The link below let’s you download the September 2009 edition.