When your security gets unruly, it can get time consuming to figure out how a user is accessing a SQL instance. Sometimes you may know that a user is getting access via one certain AD group but you aren’t sure if any other groups are granting access. Furthermore, a user...
After setting up MySQL, I realized that I put my data files on the C drive. Since I don't want database growth to end up taking down the entire OS, I had to move them. My struggles consumed a couple of hours, so I wanted to clear up and document the...
There is a handy and free tool to check your system's uptime called "Uptime". (Clever, no?) It can be downloaded at http://uptimeexe.codeplex.com. While it is very easy to use (just navigate to it in a command window and type "uptime"), it doesn't give much of an option for formatting the output to...
The world is crazier than you may realize. Man-made Climate Change has nothing to do with coal mining and your car’s exhaust pipe. It has to do with militaries using the weather as a weapon against other countries. Yes, I’m serious.
While enjoying my free month of Google Play music, I tried to play something on YouTube, which has now become “YouTube Red” because of my free music trial. The song played for three seconds and then I get this:
How could it be? Wi-Fi is showing up as consuming 10% of your Android battery when wifi is turned off! What gives? Android is sneaky, that’s what. The Wi-Fi setting is more like a “use Wi-Fi for internet” setting. In other words, your selection of that setting has nothing to do with the...
Strange clicking noises can sometimes be heard in headphones while sitting at your computer. It often is fast clicking that slows over the course of five seconds or so, then stops, and then restarts in a few seconds. This annoying noise wrecks a nice song experience. The solution? Move your...
SSMS Boost is an add-on for SQL Server Management Studio. I used it for quite some time but I got tired of using it as freeware. The reason SSMSBoost as freeware didn't work for me was because they require that you continually re-download the new version and re-register every 120 days,...
Launch Flickr Searchr! Now you can search your own Flickr photos by camera model. Strangely, Flickr has had the ability to search public photos by camera model, but not your own private photos by camera model. So, I have created a little tool that does the work for you at: http://benjf.com/flickr_searchr/....