Yearly Archives: 2010

With the insane prices map software companies are charging these days for replacement map DVDs (used in DVD-based nav units), it’s a smart idea to create a backup of your nav DVD in case of theft, loss, or damage. I’ve used the following method to back up the MDV-09D data […]

How to Backup your Navigation DVD/CD

This entry was posted in Cars Reference Technology and tagged backup Cadillac cd clone copy disc dvd GM nav nav cd nav disc nav dvd nav unit navigation navigation cd navigation disc navigation dvd NAVTEQ Toyota on July 31, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3813 days ago)

As the new owner of an Ariel Atom, I was dissatisfied with the limited amount of information available online for owners and prospective owners. There is one other major Ariel Atom forum out there already, but their website goes offline way too much, so rather than complain I decided to […]

New Ariel Atom Online Community

This entry was posted in Cars and tagged ariel ariel atom chat ariel atom forum atom chat discussion forum forum forums on July 4, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5214 days ago)

I attended a funeral yesterday for the father of a lifelong friend of my wife, Gerald “Mac” McManus. Mac was buried at Tahoma National Cemetery with full military honors after more than two decades of active duty in the United States Air Force, including service in Vietnam and Korea. I didn’t […]

She’s a Grand Old Flag

This entry was posted in Personal Philosophy Rants and Raves and tagged 15 gun salute 21 gun salute air force american flag flag Gerald McManus military burial military funeral on May 11, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3795 days ago)

I’m scheduled to take my black belt test in Cuong Nhu karate on May 28, 2010. One of the requirements for this rank is that I write a paper about anything karate-related. That’s a pretty broad brush to hand someone like me, so I took advantage. Here ya go: Cuong […]

Black Belt Candidate Paper

This entry was posted in Fitness Karate Personal and tagged black belt Cuong Nhu Karate Komokuten Mario Super Mario Bros. test on March 8, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5050 days ago)

I’m writing this in a VNC session from Windows 7, via a secure SSH tunnel over the Internet, to a remote Fedora 12 desktop (if you’re running Fedora 14, I’ve written a separate blog post about how to do that, too). If you’d like to be able to do the […]

Set up VNC from Windows to Fedora 12 Over the ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology Windows and tagged Fedora Fedora 12 GNOME KDE PuTTY SecureCRT SSH tunneling TigerVNC VNC VNC Server vncserver vncservers Windows Windows to Fedora VNC on March 3, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5105 days ago)

(The following is a letter emailed to RC Willey Customer Service on February 27, 2010) To Whom it May Concern, I have been an RC Willey customer for many years. Since buying a six-bedroom vacation home in Utah a few years ago, I have purchased over (X) dollars in furniture and […]

Customer Feedback Regarding RC Willey Furniture Delivery

This entry was posted in Rants and Raves and tagged delivery doll house bed furniture RC Willey on February 27, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5378 days ago)

Don’t get too excited… it’s not as awesome as God Mode in DOOM, but it is a fun little easier egg for uber-geeks hiding under the hood of Windows 7. Windows 7 God Mode allows you to tinker with all of the the operating system’s control panel items from within a single […]

Activate Windows 7 God Mode

This entry was posted in Reference Technology Windows and tagged Control Panel God Mode Windows 7 Windows 7 God Mode on February 6, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5076 days ago)

If you’re an “ultimate” geek running an “Ultimate” edition of Windows (such as Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows 7 Ultimate), but you want to upgrade or downgrade to Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Home Premium, or Windows 7 Home Basic, you’ve got a problem: the Windows 7 installer won’t allow […]

Upgrade (or Downgrade) Windows 7 Ultimate or Vista Ultimate to ...

This entry was posted in Reference Technology Windows and tagged Downgrade downgrade to lower version Hack MinClient=7077.0 MinClient=7233.0 Upgrade upgrade to lower version Windows 7 Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Home Basic Windows Home Premium Windows Vista Ultimate on February 5, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3995 days ago)

Evening Magazine, a local show here in Seattle on NBC-affiliate KING5, did a segment on “over the top” home theaters. They tracked me down on the Internet (not really that hard to do) and talked me into allowing a film crew into the house (which also wasn’t that hard to do), […]

Look, Ma! I’m on TV!

This entry was posted in Cars Home Theater & Automation Personal and tagged Arcade Evening Magazine Ferrari Home Theater & Automation on February 2, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5408 days ago)

Officially, Microsoft says a direct migration from a Windows 2000 Server Domain Controller to Windows 2008 R2 (or even just regular Windows 2008) isn’t supported. But I just did it… in about an hour. You can, too!

Migrating an Active Directory Domain Controller from Windows 2000 to ...

This entry was posted in Reference Technology Windows and tagged Active Directory adprep adprep32 DC dcpromo dhcp server domain controller FSMO FSMO roles transfer migrate promote R2 transfer FSMO roles win2k Windows 2000 Windows 2008 windows 2008R2 Windows Server on January 22, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3995 days ago)

This is a video of my presentation as part of the BYU Business School’s Entrepreneur Lecture Series on January 11, 2010. Normally, I’d wear a tie, bring PowerPoint slides, and try to inspire the kids into being entrepreneurs. This time, I took a slightly different approach. 🙂

BYU Entrepreneur Lecture Series Video – January 11, 2010

This entry was posted in Personal Rants and Raves and tagged 1% 1% rule byu entrepreneur lecture one percent one percent rule on January 13, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5076 days ago)

To stay connected while I’m out of the office or travelling, I use a VPN connection from my laptop to a Windows Server. And while the benefit of being able to quickly and securely access my documents and other files on the server over any Internet connection is nice, the drawback is that all […]

Using the Local Default Gateway with a Windows VPN Connection

This entry was posted in Reference Technology Windows and tagged Internet local gateway remote gateway routing VPN Windows on January 10, 2010 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5076 days ago)

I used Version 1 of Windows Live Family Safety when it first came out. It was an idea long overdue: hosted control over which websites, IM contacts, and email addresses your kids are allowed to use, with some built-in monitoring. When I upgraded to the new version in August of […]