New Workspace Setup

So sitting in my room in the dark, I usually don’t get motivated. So I decided to make the hump to a 27′ monitor for my living space that was so awkward it I had no use for it. So I turned it into a workspace. So now I have my Macbook Pro, 27′ monitor and an Apple Keyboard setup for all my grind at projects, code and problems.

So far it’s worked out really well for me. Here’s some pictures

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Mikrotik Routerboard Pictures

Here are some pictures of the Routerboard 750G, I purchased two of them. One I will be deploying in a 22 room hotel, the other is one to play with at home.

This thing is absolutely awesome when it comes to customization, and what it can do. It does more than dd-wrt. However dd-wrt is great since you can put it on any consumer hardware.

Here are some pictures of the Routerboard 750G’s I just picked up. Awesome equipment!

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Forget TwitterUpdater Use WordTwit!

Alright, I was stumbling around looking for some things and found this wonderful plugin called WordTwit

This plugin is awesome! Not only is it really clean and done well, but it has multiple URL Shortening services. No Bit.ly login support at the moment. However there is one great thing about it that I love. The fact that each post has this little box under tags, that tells you whether the post has been tweet’d or not.

Now that’s really awesome. I love this plugin!

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Upgraded to WordPress 3.0

As you can tell from the Template, I’ve upgraded to WordPress 3.0 RC. It’s rather simple to do this automatically. Just following these instructions to automatically upgrade WordPress from 2 to 3.

wordpress.org/download/nightly

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Access NTFS (Windows) Disk from OSX using MacFuse

I know, its nothing new, however not many people know about it. Personally I don’t have that many NTFS external drives, mostly because I knew it would cause issues with Mac and Linux/Unix. So instead I use to format most of my external drives as Fat32. However I would have to make  a couple of partitions manually because Windows 2000/XP actually limited you from creating partitions large than 32/64GB. You can get the specifics because this covers more than this article at WikiPedia:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

Don’t worry about Fat32, partition your drives as NTFS and make them as large as you want. You can now using them on Mac OSX using MacFuse and NTFS-3g from Tuxera.

Macfuse –  http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
NTFS-3G from Tuxera – macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Install both and enjoy!

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Enable MultiSite on WordPress 3.0 RC1

I was searching around on how to Enable Multisite on WordPress 3.0 RC1 and I couldn’t find anything, and some sites were incorrectly telling you how.

Here is the official instruction’s from WordPress on their Codex site.

codex.wordpress.org/User:Andrea/Create_A_Network

All you need to do is add the following code into your wp-config.php

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

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Exchange 2007: Finding out what version and service pack you’re running.

First  you will need to find out some information about Exchange, and the only way to do that is to open up the Exchange Management Shell and run the following:

Get-ExchangeServer | fl name,edition,admindisplayversion

Then you will be shown the following:

[PS] C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.BCRICWH\Desktop>Get-ExchangeServer
| fl name,edition,admindisplayversion

Name                : EXCH01A
Edition             : Standard
AdminDisplayVersion : Version 8.1 (Build 240.6)

Name                : EXCH02A
Edition             : Standard
AdminDisplayVersion : Version 8.1 (Build 240.6)

Name                : EXCHMBX01
Edition             : Enterprise
AdminDisplayVersion : Version 8.1 (Build 240.6)

Name                : mx4
Edition             : Standard
AdminDisplayVersion : Version 8.1 (Build 240.6)

Name                : mx3
Edition             : Standard
AdminDisplayVersion : Version 8.1 (Build 240.6)
As you can see the Version isn’t really all that informative. But its rather simple, the 8 stands for Exchange 2007 and the 1 stands for Service Pack 1. The build will also confirm that this is SP1, however I’m assuming it only changes when there are hotfixes or rollup updates.
Anyways, you can get all the version and build numbers from Microsoft at the following URL.
I am also going to copy and paste them here for historical purposes.
Exchange Server 4.0 4.0.837 April 1996
Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 (a) 4.0.993 August 1996
Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 SP1 4.0.838 May 1996
Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 SP2 4.0.993 August 1996
Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 SP3 4.0.994 November 1996
Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 SP4 4.0.995 April 1997
Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 SP5 4.0.996 May 1998
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 5.0.1457 March 1997
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 SP1 5.0.1458 June 1997
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 SP2 5.0.1460 February 1998
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 5.5.1960 November 1997
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 SP1 5.5.2232 July 1998
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 SP2 5.5.2448 December 1998
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 SP3 5.5.2650 September 1999
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 SP4 5.5.2653 November 2000
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server 6.0.4417 October 2000
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server (a) 6.0.4417 January 2001
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server SP1 6.0.4712 July 2001
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server SP2 6.0.5762 December 2001
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server SP3 6.0.6249 August 2002
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server post-SP3 6.0.6487 September 2003
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server post-SP3 6.0.6556 April 2004
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server post-SP3 6.0.6603 August 2004
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server post-SP3 6.0.6620.5 March 2008
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server post-SP3 6.0.6620.7 August 2008
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 6.5.6944 October 2003 Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP1 6.5.7226 May 2004
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 6.5.7638 October 2005
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 post-SP2 6.5.7653.33 March 2008
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 post-SP2 6.5.7654.4 August 2008
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 8.0.685.24 or 8.0.685.25 December 2006
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 8.1.0240.006 November 2007
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 8.2.0176.002 August 2009
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 14.00.0639.021 October 2009
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Fix for Windows XP not able to Remote Desktop to Windows 2008 Server

It’s a simple registry fix, you can read the KB Article 951608 from Microsoft.

support.microsoft.com/kb/951608

This will then allow you to connect to Windows 2008 Server computers as well as Windows 7 computers.

UPDATE: This won’t work for mRemote or mRemote-NG, for some reason you can only use for instance “mstsc” or Remote Desktop Client directly.

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New Version of Twitter Updater WordPress Plugin

I’ve made some more changes to the WordPress Plugin Twitter Updater. It’s now v2.10 and includes support for Bit.ly

To download and see the change log click here.

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What Music I Listen To While Working (Getting Down and Dirty Mix)

Alright, I’m going to put down all of the songs I listen to when I’m working on something, coding, designing or fixing broken stuff.

Here it is in not paticular order.

Hive – Ultrasonic Sound
Lykke Li – Little Bit (AutoErotique Bootleg Remix)
CSS – Let’s make love and listen death from above
Cut Copy – Hearts on fire
Justice – Never Be Alone

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