Great Amazon deal at $20 off the regular price for Office 365 Home Premium 1 Year Subscription Key Card. This can be used for your upcoming annual renewal as well. For Win7+. The funny part is that they send you a physical card. This would be perfect for a digital delivery, but I guess Microsoft does not trust Amazon that much. EDIT: I bought this, ......

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I find Google Chrome, which I have no interest in, is continually getting installed on machines in my house, mostly due to Adobe Shockwave bringing it along as an install package. (Family members are agreeing to the download, not realizing the Chrome is getting dropped as well.) My major issue after uninstalling Chrome is that you can no longer click ......

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This is another of those memory aid posts. After I got tired of seeing Hewlett-Packard as the licensed organization on my laptop, I dug into the registry and changed it. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE... NT\CurrentVersion and make your changes to RegisteredOwner or RegisteredOrganization as desired. A reboot is not required. Your ProductId ......

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I travel a lot. The hours spent droning through the sky can be made more tolerable with an MP3 player and a set of noise-cancelling headphones. Reducing the sound of the airflow and engines is a great relief. For a year or two, I used a pair of folding Sony MDR-NC5 Noise Canceling Headphones, the ear foam covers self-destructed. I replaced them with ......

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One of the things I always seem to be checking are the various characteristics of the C# value types. You know, stupid questions like whether int is the same as System.Int32 or System.Int64. I know the answer, but when I need it, I just want a quick reference. I could not find one, so I made one. I think it is correct since I combined multiple tables ......

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You have to love Amazon. They will sell you anything. Get them while they last ......

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For a period of time, I have access to both an MSDN and a TechNet subscription. Both offer Microsoft software for download. I wondered what the similarities and differences were between the two subscriptions. I copied the two download lists into Excel and aligned them. Most of the material I would never use. Some products I have never heard of. I present ......

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My last post related the sad story of a dead HP MediaSmart Home Server. This time, I will relate the steps I took to configure the Synology DS1511+ for use. To avoid unnecessary typing, I recommend this post to provide the basic details. It is written for the older DS1010+, but the process is the same for the DS1511+. … OK, now that you have read that, ......

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