http://www.davehildebrand.com The IT Crowd Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:40:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are in the process of installing a policy and procedure management application at the hospital. It has been setup so that users are not required to enter their user name and password to access the site, it is done via LDAP. To get the single-sign-on benefits of ... http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/07/16/more-registry-goodies/ We just got in a batch of HP desktops and so far they look to be a good investment. There isn't much crap/bloat ware installed on it, so we can get them out the door to our users quite quickly. We have had only 1 minor issue with ... http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/07/11/ie-homepage-via-the-registry/ After years in the IT field, I have seen incidents and users like this. I laughed my ass off when the IT guys goes into his boss' email and deleted the DO NOT REBOOT THE WEB SERVER!!!!!!! email. IT Guy Vs Dumb Employees - Watch more free videos The guys/gals that ... http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/07/03/it-humour/ [caption id="attachment_130" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Browse Safe with Firefox 3"][/caption] Firefox 3 was released yesterday to much fanfare. The first tallies are showing over 8 million downloads in 1 day. Of that total 269,901 were by Canadians. Update June 19: Download total is now over 11 million, 320,000+ by Canada. I've ... http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/06/18/firefox-v30-first-impressions/ On June 12th the first reading of Bill C-61 took place in the House of Commons. This is a terrible bill that takes the power of copyright law out of the hands of lawmakers and into the hands of corporations. I've gathered up a few links to get ... http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/06/17/us-style-dmca/ Everything that I had read said that Google had adjusted their algorithms to combat link bombs, also known as Google bombs. Turns out this may, or may not be the case. Head on over to Google and search for the term "who is a failure?". The #1 ... http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/06/16/who-is-a-failure/ I stumbled upon the Internet Wayback Machine today. It was great fun looking back a the early days of the web. Google, MSN, NBC, CBC have all come a long way since the static web pages that we were treated to in the late 90's. MSN then: And Now http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/06/15/wayback-machine-fun/ Our Canon MP390 has been printing black text poorly for a weeks. Running the cleaning application did nothing to help the poor prints. Luckily the MP390 has a removable print head. Unlike most other printer manufacturers, Canon does not build print heads into the new ink ... http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/05/27/print-head-cleaning/ Or is the better question, can they handle the truth? Either way residents of our little town need to let it be known that things are not o.k. I urge everyone to take this survey, and give the town the straight dope. Here is a short clip for your ... http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/04/21/do-they-want-to-know-the-truth/ Update June 15th: The original video has been pulled. I've replaced it with a recent interview with former Blue Jay Rance Mulliniks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pV317NUueg http://www.davehildebrand.com/2008/02/21/beware-the-mustache/