The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Technology

  • Ring Solar Pathlight Batteries

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    If you happened to have bought a Ring Solar Pathlight over the past couple of years since they were released, you’ve probably gotten to a point where the original Ring batteries no longer charge. They’re not your every day AA rechargeable, but rather 18650 Lithium Ion batteries. If you reached out to support like I…

  • QNAP Friends… Update your firmware…

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    Unless you’re running your servers, devices and other items that connect to a network of some sort in a pile of concrete at the bottom of a lake (perhaps a Great Lake) disconnected from the world, it may be time to go and start checking your firmware. I know that it’s one of the most…

  • Intel NUCs…

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    For the past five years or so, Intel Corporation has been building what they term the Next Unit of Computing or NUC for short. What is a NUC? It’s effectively a stripped down ultrabook computer that is housed within a small cube like box – think back to when Apple had their cube like tissue…

  • The Document is going to be around for a while…

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    So I figured I’d throw my two cents in on the topic of documents and whether or not we’re going to see them sail off into the sunset.  So far the gauntlets have been thrown down by SharePoint Welterweights Joel Oleson and Spence Harbar. I’d have to disagree with the original thesis, I don’t think…

  • TechNet iCalendar Reminders…

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    The other evening, I discovered that my esteemed colleague, Spencer Harbar, will be presenting a MSDN webcast on the topic of “SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: Content Deployment”.  Upon registering, I realized that I didn’t have Outlook setup to connect to my work e-mail (rather it’s set up for my test servers…

  • What’s in your Website?

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    This afternoon while scaling through Google Reader, attempting to catch up on what’s going on in the SharePoint Community, I came across Mike Gannotti’s “Websites as Graphs” post.  I remember coming across a similar generator several years ago but thought, why not see what my current site looks like – besides everyone likes visualizations and…

  • Q6600 Upgrade and RAM… lots of RAM…

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    A few weeks ago I happened upon Dell’s support manual for the Dell Dimension E510.  I was doing a little investigative research to check out how much RAM they supported and scratched my head when I saw that they supported 8 GB of RAM.  How could this be?  My Dell Dimension E520 only supports 4…

  • Sun xVM VirtualBox – Small Footprint, Speedy

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    So I came across an article earlier today making mention of Sun’s xVM standards compliant Virtual Sandbox software and I figured, "It’s free and it looks halfway decent, plus it’s standards compliant." So a quick visit over to Virtual Boxes web site (http://www.virtualbox.org) and a little download magic and I was off and running setting…

  • Skype Finally Supports Skype Out Numbers in the US!

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    Alright, so this is completely devoid of anything to do with SharePoint, but I was pleasantly surprised this evening when placing a call to a colleague over Skype and having him tell me that a local number in his exchange was showing on caller ID.  Sure enough, not only can my SkypeOut number show up,…