Google + Invites

I've been playing around with Google + lately, and really like it so far.  If you need an invite, send me your gmail address and I'll send you one.

Adam's Edge: How to disable your data connection in Android

There are tons of resources available to provide the steps that I am about to provide.  I just wanted to share this as well and my story as to why I needed to do this.

Here are the steps that can be performed to disable your data connection on your Android based phone.  This only disabled your mobile data connection such as 3g/4g/etc.  It does not interfere with your WiFi connection/adapter.

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Adam's Edge: FreeNAS 8 RC5 - Shutdown fixed for Acer H340!

The FreeNAS developers have begun providing release candidates for version 8 of their highly acclaimed embedded NAS operating system.

One thing I did not include with my original articles regarding FreeNAS and the Acer H340 was the shutdown command/process not actually shutting the machine down.  If you were to hit the power button on the device, you would hear the shutdown initialization *beep* as it began the shutdown process.  After a few seconds, the network light on the front would go out but the power remained on.  It was safe to hold the power button down to finish shutting the hardware off but who wants to do that?

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Adam's Edge: Keep a handle on your hard drive storage with TreeSize Free

You would think with todays hard drive capacities you would not need to worry about wasted space.  Think again.  If you ever want to know what all of your hard drive storage is being eaten by, check out TreeSize Free by Jam Software.  This tool has been around for years and it still comes in handy

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Scan It Biotch!

Yes this purchased label software really says "Scan it Biotch!!!"

Thanks Active Directory!

I received this error in Active Directory today.  Thanks Microsoft, real descriptive!

Windows Tip: Lookup Remote MAC Addresses

If you ever find yourself needing to lookup the MAC address on a remote Windows computer (maybe your configuring a Cisco IP softphone), try getmac.

In the Windows command prompt type:

getmac /s computername

Replace computername with the name of the PC on your domain.

Below is the output you will receive:

Physical Address    Transport Name

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00-21-9B-2F-E8-6F   \Device\Tcpip_{1527037D-056C-4BB5-91CC-6E93BC0E85C2}