I’m sure you’ve had clients servers disks fill up on a regular basis right? Here’s a cool tool that is free that you can use to quickly figure out where it’s all gone. TreeSize Free from JAM Software is a free tool, you can download it here but I’ve also paid for the Professional Version for my own systems. As an example – here’s an example of a servers hard drive … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2012
How to fill up a hard drive and exercise it at the same time
Believe it or not, this little gem is one I learned over 20 years ago now when I worked for AST Computers. We had a need to exercise some hard drives and one of the tech team there wrote this quick but simple batch file to do so. Copy the following lines to Notepad and then save it as a file called t.bat. Copy t.t + t.t t1.t del t.t ren t1.t t.t dir … [Read more...]
It’s not too late to register for the SMB Online Conference
Karl Palachuks SMB Online Conference starts in just a few hours – it’s not too late to register for it here. Ok – so it’s not in your timezone – that’s fine – Karl is giving all registered attendees, 12 months access to all the sessions, so you can review them in your own time as many times as you like. This is a 3 day event for a low price of only $399. I … [Read more...]
Buffalo TeraStation Pro WSS Quad
Recently Buffalo approached me with an offer to try out their products to see if they had a fit for our clients in the SMB market. Given I’m playing with a few NAS devices at the moment, it was a great chance to take a look at something I’d not seriously done before. The local Aussie representative from Buffalo, Boris, kindly offered a Buffalo TeraStation Pro WSS Quad 4TB unit … [Read more...]
Desktop Icons don’t work anymore
My laptop is the subject of a lot of different software. I use it every day to do many things and often trial software on it. Over the last few weeks maybe more, however I have noticed a problem with it. I’ve noticed that the icons on my desktop simply stop responding… everything else works, but you can’t select or click on anything on my desktop. At … [Read more...]