Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/26
Found a while ago that Brian Long wrote a few nice pages and posts on Windows keyboard shortcuts:
Thanks Brian
–jeroen
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: blong, jeroen, software, technology, windows keyboard shortcuts, windows shortcuts | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/20
Awesome write speed while mirroring from my old Intel 320 600GB SSD (SATA) to the new OWC Mercury Electra MAX 3G 960GB SSD (USB3) on my ThinkPad W701.
On average more than 2GB per minute.
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 27029 27028 1 0 0 0
Files : 160965 160965 0 0 0 0
Bytes : 546.499 g 546.499 g 0 0 0 0
Times : 4:17:38 4:15:16 0:00:00 0:02:22
Speed : 38311787 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 2192.218 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Mon Mar 18 22:16:36 2013
–jeroen
via: OWC OWCSSDEX3G960 960GB Mercury Electra MAX 3G SSD.
Posted in Hardware, Power User, SSD | Tagged: computer, megabytes, owc, ssd, technology, usb3 | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/21
A couple of weeks ago, Scott Hanselman posted a great Windows 8 instructional video.
It contains all the stuff that geeks like me will find out themselves over time, but in a well paced and complete manner:
… to give new users to Windows 8 a near-complete understanding of the major features including the Start Screen, Hot Corners, Full Screen Apps, Desktop Apps, The Store, Browsing, Doing Social Stuff, using the Mouse effectively and exploiting keyboard Shortcuts.
It also shows what a power user like Scott uses besides the standard Microsoft Windows/Office combo.
Oh: and it includes the “Windows-X” shortcut (:
(no: not the mobility center any more)
Recommended watch!
–jeroen
via: (12) Scott Hanselman – Google+ – The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video. It’s 25 minutes….
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 8 | Tagged: desktop apps, gadgets, geeks, google, keyboard shortcuts, major features, microsoft office, microsoft windows, scott hanselman, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/08
A long while ago I blogged about Creating vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick so I could boot ESXi from USB.
Since then, I changed USB sticks to be larger (and faster) ones and thought it might be possible to put a small datastore on it for a small maintenance VM.
The VMware Communities: External USB hard drive detected as… thread on the VMware Communities site shows you can do it for a USB disk, but only from the console or SSH (not from the regular maintenance tools).
The results vary, and don’t sound very stable to me, so it is definitely not recommended.
So I have refrained from going that way.
–jeroen
via: VMware Communities: External USB hard drive detected as….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/31
The 2 TB SSD units have just been announced, but anyone any idea what the older 1TB SSD units cost?
–jeroen
via: Foremay claims to have the first 2TB, 2.5-inch SSDs.
Posted in Hardware, Power User, SSD | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25
Just found out about the AkelPad Editor.
It is tiny, has a lot of functionality.
Too bad that Alt+V does not go to the View menu, but is bound to a kind-of-past functionality.
Similar for other Alt+letter combinations in their keyboard shortcuts.
They should have used Ctrl+Alt+letter combinations for it.
So I continue my search for a good, tiny, syntax highlighting and multi-encoding capable NotePad alternative.
–jeroen
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/18
Though my [Wayback/Archive.is] Dell Dimension 9200/DXP061 machines already had 4 gigabyte of memory, I just learned they can go to 8 gigabyte of memory.
Multiple source confirm that it is possible to put 8 GB of memory in a Dell Dimension 9200/DXP061 (aka “Dell XPS 410”):
Your machine supports DDR2 PC2-5300 and DDR2 PC2-6400 modules.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/12
It appears that finally this kind of laptop HDD drives have arrived:
I’ve hoped for these drives to appear for a long time, and wrote blog posts on it in March 2012 (HDD market seems recovered, and WD introduced 4 TB 3.5 HDDs: when are 2.5 inch 12.5 mm 1.5+ TB drives coming?) and September 2012 (When are the 12.5mm 1.5 TB and 14.8mm 2 TB notebook drives coming?).
Finally they seem to be there, but there is still confusion of model number and exact drive height, so here are some links that I collected with information:
The YouTube video indicates the Seagate drive inside the GoFlex is indeed 12.5 mm high, but doesn’t reveal the product number of the drive.
Given the below Toshiba model numbers and specs, my gut feeling is that they are all the same drive (USA pricing currently varies between USD 125 and USD 140):
In the mean time, the largest capacity of SSD drives available is approximately 1 TB:
Not available yet, but announced:
It looks like most (if not all) 960 GB drives internally use some form of RAID 0. The OWC is, and the Mushkin is too, but the M500 might be non-raid (we will know for sure after it ships) as it is supposed to use 128 Gb NAND dies (the OCZ Octane does, but when it got introduced, these were really expensive).
–jeroen
Posted in Hardware, Power User, SSD | Tagged: computer, drive bays, micron technology inc, notebook hdd, ocw, ssd, ssd drives, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/30
In Excel I always got confused with named ranges, as I thought they were hard to track.
Not!
The F3 keyboard shortcut gives you a list of named ranges including name and location. Which makes it way easier to work with named ranges.
See the excellent post Show all named ranges in Excel: It even has an animated gif image that shows you F3 in action.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/23
About 4 months ago, I missed the OCZ Octane SSD Review – Internal Hard Drives – CNET Reviews.
Too bad that at roughly USD 2400 (the lowest price vendor at CNET lying), it is about three times as expensive as the Google Shop search for Hard Drives Intel Solid State 600 GB that I already have.
–jeroen
Posted in Hardware, Opinions, Power User, SSD | 1 Comment »
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