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How to export email addresses from Active Directory

April 21st, 2010 Dale No comments

A neat little command to dump out the whole of Active Directory users email addresses to the root of c: can be found below :-

dsquery * -filter "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(mail=*))" -attr mail displayname -limit 0 > c:\email_addresses.txt

Snow Leopard released on August 28th

August 24th, 2009 Dale No comments

Been reading up on Snow Leopard. Apple have certainly bigged it up and made it look very impressive.

Lets hope that it lives up to the hype and most importantly my order from Apple arrives shortly after the 28th.

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Windows XP, Blank Screen after Loading Personal Settings

July 28th, 2009 Dale 1 comment

Bit of a quirky virus related problem I experienced on a friends computer.

Basically windows will boot to the logon screen. Once you select a user no matter who you select it will say Loading Personal Settings and then the screen will just display the wallpaper. No icons. Nothing.

I could press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and load up task manager. So I then loaded up a command prompt from there.

When I then ran explorer.exe an error message came up saying :-

system cannot find the file explorer.exe

Checking the windows folder I could see the explorer.exe file.

To resolve the issue I took the following steps.

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XBOX Live – 1 vs 100, No Live Host

July 17th, 2009 Dale No comments

1 vs 100 lauched on XBOX live on 10th July 2009. I have now played 2 live games online but have yet to actually hear the live host.

I hear him right at the start but then I get a low bandwith message come up and dont hear anymore.

My line is 4mb down and 756KB upload, surely thats enough.

Anyone else heard him? Everyone I have spoken to has never heard him during the game.

Cmon Microsoft sort it out!!!!!! I know its beta but the game is crap without the live host being there. The game just have massive long pauses without.

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Samsung 226BW 22″ TFT For Sale – Now SOLD!!

July 2nd, 2009 Dale No comments

I now have a laptop and I am not using this screen so the time has come to sell it. Click on the pic to enlarge.

Still got warranty on it. Selling it for £100. Drop me a mail if you know anyone thats interested.

In case your interested I am selling it to fund my next purchase a popcorn A-110 Mediatank.

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