Add Media Centre to Windows 8 for free!

For a limited time you can add media center to windows 8 for free.

Click the link and add your details.. the process worked for me.

Add features - Microsoft Windows:

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WD Green Vs Red

It seems a bit weird to me that the WB green drivers are more power hungry than the red drives... Don't believe me? go check out the specs for yourself.

GREEN
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701229.pdf
RED:
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771442.pdf


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Bitlocker Logs

I don't agree with the group policy method for troubleshooting. I believe that a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) Log should be report back or log to a centralised database (Microsoft BitLocker Administration tool?). We really need to have the ability to report on what is causes BitLocker recovery key requests. Having to turn off individual PCR's (Platform Configuration Registers) in GPO is is a very slow and painful process to determine what is causing the lockout especially if we are trying to determine a RCA (Root Cause Analysis) after a lockout event.


The below blog post from blogs.technet.com explains a bit about Bitlocker. The author uses many abbreviations without explaining the abbreviation. This makes the document hard to read especially since the document is meant to be a "starter" type introduction to BitLocker.

Starter for someone who is not familiar with bitlocker part III - Digging in - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: "Now there is a way how we can configure TPM platform validation profile or in simple words asking TPM to measure what and what not before releasing secret (not recommended though) we have a group policy"

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The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature - The App Compat Guy - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

For those of us that use Chrome we've had this feature for years.

The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature - The App Compat Guy - Site Home - MSDN Blogs:

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Sophos detects itself as a virus and quarantines itself

Great work there Sophos.

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118311.aspx

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Use of tracking app to find stolen iPad 'legal' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Use of tracking app to find stolen iPad 'legal' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Walker said if it was trespassing, then every time somebody turns on their radio they to would be breaking the law."

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How to Run a Program on a Configuration Manager Client

How to Run a Program on a Configuration Manager Client: "How to Run a Program on a Configuration Manager Client"

I found that the code included on the webpage didn't work when used in VBscript.

This code does:


Runprogram "ProgramName","ProgID"

Sub RunProgram(programId, packageId)

    'On Error Resume Next

    Dim oUIResource 
    Dim oPrograms 
    Dim oProgram 

    Set oUIResource = CreateObject ("UIResource.UIResourceMgr")

    If oUIResource Is Nothing Then 
        wscript.echo "Could not create Resource Object - quitting"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    if oUIResource.IsMandatoryProgramPending = 1 Then
        Wscript.Echo "Mandatory program pending. Try again later."
        Set oUIResource=Nothing
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Set oProgram = oUIResource.GetProgram(programId,packageId)
    if oProgram is Nothing Then
        WScript.Echo "Couldn't get the program"
        Set oUIResource=Nothing
        Exit Sub
    End If
    
    Wscript.Echo "Running program: " & oProgram.FullName
    oUIResource.ExecuteProgram programId, packageID, TRUE

    Set oProgram=Nothing
    Set oUIResource=Nothing

End Sub