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How long until my Windows password expires?

I was wondering how long before I have to change my password at a client-site. Scripting to the rescue, scroll down to the bottom of this page, copy the code into a expiration.vbs file and start it from the commandline using start expiration.vbs

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Restoring MacBook Pro using Time Capsule

To my horror suddenly my MacBook Pro wouldn’t display anything anymore, a blank screen was all I got. Hooked up an external monitor, no success. Searched the internet and concluded that I might have a broken Nvidia graphics “card” (it’s soldered on the board so it’s not really a card) as the batch my MBP [...]

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Switching to Git

I’ve been using subversion for a very long time. During that period I’ve got several people and one company hooked on this version control system after I got frustrated with SourceSafe. SourceSafe was the only version control software developers on the Microsoft platform knew, if they did any. For those people subversion was a giant [...]

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iCal problem CalDAVDeleteEntityQueueableOperation

Just one result in Google, but exactly the problem I was experiencing Changed the preference and restarted iCal. Problem solved. Thanks Matt.

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I want to store more items

I’m running Vista and Office 2007. Previously I used Newsgator for all my blogreading, but the new Windows RSS platform in combination with Outlook 2007 brings me the exact same functionality. It appears that the feeds have a limit for the number of items they can contain, this limit is by default set at 200. [...]

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Let’s get started

Back from vacation and ready to go. Welcome on my Blog. This is the first ever public blog I’m running. Not that this is my first blogpost, I used to work for a company where every employee has his own blog and loved sharing information that way. I work for LogicaCMG in the Netherlands as [...]

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