Coming into Seattle Originally uploaded by jbraun. A cool picture I took on a flight into Seattle…

ABE filters shared folders visible to a user based on that individual user’s access rights, preventing the display of folders or other shared resources that the user does not have rights to access. ABE can be accessed via graphical user interface (GUI), command-line executable tool, and a robust advanced programming interface (API). This functionality is something similar to what you see in a Novell environment.  You can control the settings of ABE via Group Policy as well. You can download the ABE GUI interface here.

Now this is really cool.  The Wayback Machine, the invention of the Internet Archive allows you to see any webpage archived from 1996 to just a few months ago. This is useful if you’re looking for old information or if you wanted to see what the first iteration of a site that you designed and what it looked like. About the Wayback Machine: Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported. You can check it out at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.

I ran into a little problem today.  One of my test servers which has 4GB of RAM was giving me an error on boot.  This error indicated that I only had 256MB of usable memory.  Well, low and behold, Dell has a setting in their BIOS called “OS Install Mode”.  When set to On, memory is limited to 256 MB to allow the installation of older operating systems that have 2 GB memory limits.   I had never heard of such a thing, but those servers run a lot faster with it turned off, especially when you have 4GB RAM!

I use several different types of removable media since both of my digital cameras each use a different type.  I decided to get rid of my several different card readers and buy the SanDisk ImageMate 12-in-1 USB 2.0 Card Reader at my local Best Buy.  This thing is cool, cause like the product name says, it supports 12 different types of media. It was confusing enough for me to having all these drives listed as “Removable Drive (n)” in My Computer, so I did a little search online and came across just what I was looking for over at Chris Pirillo’s Blog.  I was looking for a way to change the drive icon as well as the default volume label.  Chris has a link to a zip that he created which includes the cool icon images as well as a registry file that you can import after a little editing.…