Chuck Norris and IT

• The system works because Chuck Norris tells it to work
• Chuck Norris doesn’t need a test suite. The test suite needs Chuck Norris.
• CPUs run faster to get away from Chuck Norris
• Chuck Norris normalizes all schema just by inserting random data
• Chuck Norris can compile syntax errors
• Packets travel faster than the speed of light for Chuck Norris, but he can still catch them
• Chuck Norris has Internet 3
• Check Norris can parse invalid XML
• Chuck Norris can break Moore’s Law
• Chuck Norris can fix everything without changing anything.

How to find the user / entity an email address is associated with in Exchange 2003

• Open the Acive Directory Users and Computers Management Console
• Right Click on the domain > Select Find
• Select Custom Search in the Find field
• Select the Advanced tab
• To find the entity with the email address spamtrap@danlance.co.uk for example, enter the following in the LDAP query field: (proxyAddresses=smtp:user@somain.com)
• This will list the entity containing the email address entered.
  
  Wild cards can be entered within the email address (*) to return multiple matches.
  If you want to view all the email addresses within the results list, select View -> Choose Columns... and select Proxy Address - doing this in assoication with the query (proxyAddresses=smtp:*@somain.com) will give you a list of all entities within the organisation that have an email address, together with all the email addresses they have.

How to turn on an automatic logon in Windows XP

Use "control userpasswords2" from command prompt to open related Control Panel applet.

Issue: Home Server Storage can’t calculate the size for a shared folder

• In the console below the pie chart, chart size calculation for certain folders never stops.
• Within the Shared Folders tab in the console, some folders appear with size unknown.

Resolution: Reset security owner permissions on the shared folder.

PowerShell: How to list the object properties and methods

New-Object -com | get-Member

File security for the ssh-key files in CentOS

Lets assume that you already have a file with your key copied in the right place.

chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

A Microsoft Word 2007 spell check does not work

Here is a solution if you're willing to do a minor edit to the registary:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

I had 2 entries (DLL and LEX) pointing to non-existing files. Delete these entries. After this change all Spell Checking worked normal again.