sysadmin

"They have been around forever, but have you really ever implemented Application Roles in SQL Server? For that matter, do you really know what they are and how to use them? In this short tip, I hope to explain just that." - Eric @ CS Techcast via Bookmarklet

"SQL Server 2008 provides a feature, which, in my opinion, has been far overdue -- backup compression. For too long, if you wanted the benefit of compressed backups, you had to look at a third-party tool. Now, backup compression is built right into SQL Server 2008, and what's even better is that it's easy to use." - Eric @ CS Techcast via Bookmarklet

Do your screen saver and IM clients having scripting hooks? Can you automatically trigger a script when you change locations, somehow? What OS are you on?? - John Dalton

windows XP :/ - Rohit Srivastwa

fdisk is a partitioning tool, their is no formatting involved. Whether you use fdisk to create a partition or XP's installer, it doesn't have anything to do with formatting. http://linux.die.net/man/8/fdi... - Adnan

takes ssh-keygen 4h to create - igor via Bookmarklet

After my dog smashed my wife's computer LCD this is going to become my next weekend project...thanks! - Brian Bufalo

Preach it brother! - Brian Bufalo

well...I might have noted somewhere along the way something about the folks whose business acumen pays the bills to keep the juice flowing, but other than that. WORD! - Greg

Doesn't work in my shop. We use both process and hash blocking. Works for 99.999 percent of users. Others who might be trying to circumvent policy for malicious reasons will find them selves staring at a compliance officer. - Greg