I recently installed the SMTP service on a new server and it would not start. I would receive an error to check the event log but nothing was even logged. What ended up fixing the problem was the following:

Check this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SMTPSVC for a dword value called Start. If it’s not there, create a dword key called Start and set the value to 2.

I had the key but the value was set to 4. I changed it to be 2 and restarted the server and all worked as it should. Weird eh???

As always use caution when you edit the registry and backup your system first.

Presumably, you want to test your fax machine by sending a fax from it and receiving a fax with it. Here’s how to do both:

To test the send functionality of your fax machine, send a one-page fax to 1-888-877-1655 or 1-503-200-1300.  When it’s finished transmitting, point your web browser to Fax Toy — it’s a fun web site that displays whatever is faxed to that number. Within a minute, your fax should appear on the site. Click the thumbnail to see a large version.

To test the receive functionality of your fax machine, point your web browser to FaxZero: this site lets you send faxes for free to anywhere in the United States and Canada. Within a few minutes, your fax machine should ring — hopefully, it will automatically answer and spit out the test fax.

So I finally made the move to a new OS after running Windows XP for what seems like forever. I am now running Windows 7 and I must say so far I really do like it.   One feature I love is how I can switch my backgrounds and have them keep changing automatically. What is odd is there is no easy way to switch the background of the login screen. That is where this handy little free app comes in. It is called logon changer  for Windows 7.  It provides an easy way to customize the logon screen background with just a few clicks. Simply download the free application, run it and click Change Logon Screen.

Here is a link to the website to download the app. Enjoy it and your new version of Windows!

Like a boss video featuring Seth Rogen. Too funny

Link to video here.

After  the president has been in office for 6 months it is customary for the last president to send a note of congratulations to the new one. So yesterday when  the note came from Bush to Obama, the President was somewhat troubled because it was written in code and all it said was:

370H-SSV-0773H

This troubled him as he had always heard from his peers how former president Bush was perceived to have been scholarly challenged. So he called in the VP who was also unable to decode the message.  They called in the chief of staff and the head of Secret Service detail and they were unable to determine the meaning of the note. Next he called in the head of the Senate and Speaker of the House. They both were mystified by the meaning of the coded message. Now there was complete panic in the oval office. A special emergency meeting was called by the staff. All branches of the military, counter intelligence, CIA, FBI were called in, and the best minds were unable crack the code. After a sleepless night, a now humbled President picked up the phone and called the former president, and asked him the meaning of the note. Bush  chuckled and replied: Dude, you’re holding it upside down!

Ok here you go. Don’t say I never gave you anything.

Any mode:

Display related:

o alt+shift+G: grab screenshot (screen flashes and a file is placed in your documents, visible when connected to the computer)
o alt+G: redraw display

Editing:

* alt+DEL: delete all text in edit window

Music playback:

o alt+<space>: play/pause music. Also pauses spoken text function.
o alt+F: forward to next music track

Misc:

o alt+<HOME> Go to Amazon Kindle storefront.

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You can create a Recipient Policy based on group membership, and make all CompanyA users member of a CompanyA group and all CompanyB users member of a CompanyB group.
Here’s how:

Create a new recipient policy, make it a Custom Search, select the Advanced tab and enter your query like
(&(memberOf=CN=companya.users,OU=Service,DC=companya,DC=com))

Set the email address accordingly (ie %d@companya.com)

Go to the Service/CompanyA/com OU and create a group named companyausers.

Create your users and before you mail enable them, make them members of the companyausers group.

Mail enable your CompanyA users and they will get an email address from the Recipient policy you just created.

In an underground bunker 100 feet beneath Stockholm lies a unique facility operated by the Swedish ISP Bahnof. It’s become known as the “James Bond Villain Data Center”. Dean Nelson of Data Center Pulse recently got a tour of the data center from Banhof CEO Jon Karlung, who provided a look at the many unusual features of the facility, a former military bunker designed to withstand a hydrogen bomb blast. Karlung has said he drew his inspiration for many of the center’s flourishes from James Bond villains (especially Ernst Blofeld), hence the waterfalls, greenhouse-style NOC, glass-enclosed conference room “floating” above the colocation floor, and blue-lit diesel engines (supposedly used in German submarines).

Here is the video tour of the Data Center. It is about 9 minutes long.

The site linked below will display images that if you are infected with the Conficker virus will most likely be blocked. It can be a quick and reliable way to know if you may be infected.

Eye chart is located here