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Determining Volume Cluster Size

On Monday there was a need to determine the cluster size of a NTFS volume.  Searching the web led to the discovery of a few different techniques but nothing that could be absorbed easily into a program.  One technique called

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Easy Sysinternals Tools

This is a tip for those of you that have to figure out what is not working on a given system.  It has been known for a number of years that Sysinternal tools are the best at determining problems.  A

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Citrix Video Tips

It is difficult to find decent concentrated information sometimes.  Usually bits are found but no collection.  Even though the “Citrix Video Tips” at uTIPu is not as extensive as it could be, it has the beginnings of a very interesting

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Vista Snipping Tool

Sometimes tools that come with the operating system pleasantly surprise you.  Vista comes with a tool called the “Snipping Tool”.  It basically makes the PrintScrn key obsolete in Windows.  Typically people will use the PrintScrn key to capture the screen

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Sumit Dhawan Speaks About VDI

  Recently inside Citrix we were notified of a podcast with Sumit Dhawan, Citrix vice president of product marketing.  This podcast is available to the public so it seems like a good idea to forward this information on.  It is worth

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The Better Product Fallacy

From a previous post there was a summarization of “Trout On Strategy“.  This is the kind of book that stays with you even though it is fairly short.  One of the ideas that has been floating around since reading it

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Bill Gates – Looking Back, Moving Ahead

  Just today I was looking for some Microsoft videos related to MMS 2008 when I located some video gems about Bill Gates and his history at Microsoft.  The Microsoft web site is providing a collection of videos for use

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Virtual Hard Disk Specification

The Virtual Hard Disk Image Format Specification (VHD Spec) has been available from Microsoft since October 2006.  You can bypass registration and download straight from here. The document is only seventeen pages long but manages to capture how it is

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REDFLY

Given enough time, a problem leads to a solution.  REDFLY is the first product I’ve seen that addresses the problem with smartphones having too small screens and keyboards.  Actually, it is the first product that is not a laptop which

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Trout on Strategy

Some books get straight to the point.  Jack Trout, marketing guru, wrote a book called “Trout on Strategy” within the last few years that summarizes his experience with marketing over his very successful career. There is not a high degree

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