Author Archives: Josh Perry

Windows 7 RC Fish

By Josh Perry | Published: June 10, 2009
When the Win7 beta was released Microsoft had a witty default background greet new users. The background consisting of a Betta (get it? beta, Betta?) fish and 7 bubbles was a well-done, light and colorful. Now that the Win7 RC is in the hands of the masses the Betta background doesn’t seem to fit. So [...]
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Qualcomm Gobi WWAN Card on Windows 7

By Josh Perry | Published: May 6, 2009
<Update> The latest 64-bit version of most vendor’s drivers now work fine without following these instructions or using GobiLoader. I updated my Thinkpad to Win7 Retail x64 using Lenovo System Update to install all the drivers and now my Gobi card works great even after a sleep/hibernate. </Update> I have been surprised by the extremely [...]
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Backing up local files on your Data Protection Management Server

By Josh Perry | Published: April 14, 2009
When creating a new protection group in DPM 2007 RTM you are presented with a list of computers on your network that have the DPM client installed.  The DPM server itself is in this list as it also runs the client for various reasons, including the ability to be backed up by another DPM server. [...]
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