O365 0x80070005 errors

One of the questions asked most often by clients using Office 365 is whether there is the ability to send mail as an alias of their account. There are several well documented solutions to this problem, but it’s possible that even after doing things right, you...
Download pushprinterconnections.exe

Download pushprinterconnections.exe

You have to love it when Microsoft references programs extensively in their documentation but then doesn’t make the file readily accessible. In this case, I needed pushprinterconnections.exe for deploying printers to Windows XP machines using Group Policy. Since...

Keyspan USA-19QW Driver

Nothing is quite as challenging as trying to find a driver for an old piece of hardware when the company that created the product has been acquired. In my case, I was looking for a driver for the Keyspan USA-19QW USB to Serial adapter. It appears that Tripplite bought...

CyanogenMod and Nexus Q Fastboot

If you’re like me and not a full blown software geek, then trying to get CyanogenMod onto your Nexus Q may frustrate you to death. One of the biggest problems you’ll have stems from trying to get your Nexus Q into fastboot when you don’t have the...
Windows 8: Failed to play test tone

Windows 8: Failed to play test tone

I have an awesome Dell E6530 laptop and it’s been a dream to work on, but since I upgraded to Windows 8 / 8.1 I’ve had problems with a few driver related items. One of these things has been the audio driver. I lost sound completely about a week or two ago...

Solved: You do not have the required permission

So maybe you’ve been bold like I have and installed Windows 8.1. And maybe you want to use the new Hyper-V portion of 8.1 and setup a VM or two to play with. In the process, you discover this great feature called Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection, which is...