Tools

Cell Phone Towers

I was driving from Holland, MI to Grand Rapids, MI yesterday and started realizing the number of towers along the highway. For some reason I started to count the number I saw from I196. Heading East twards grand rapids, I counted 17 towers. Of the 17 I think that at least 15 were cell phone towers. This got me thinking of …

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Extending Disk Volumes with DiskPart

I just found out there is a very useful tool built into XP and Windows 2003, called diskpart.exe. This program will allow you to expand a windows disk volume to larger disks. I had the chance to use this recently to increase a server from three 36 gig drives to three 72 gig drives. This program allowed me to extend the …

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Microsoft Malicious Software Removal tool

Microsoft released a few new tools recently – this one is a malicious software removal tool. This will scan your system for nasty virus’s like Nachi, Sassier, and MyDoom. You can obtain it here http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx