Scientists Develop High-Efficiency, Low-Cost Zinc-Air Battery.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20130528231737_Scientists_Develop_High_Efficiency_Low_Cost_Zinc_Air_Battery.html Scientists Develop High-Efficiency, Low-Cost Zinc-Air Battery. Stanford Scientists Develop High-Efficiency Zinc-Air Battery [05/28/2013 11:17 PM] by Anton Shilov Stanford University scientists have developed an advanced zinc-air battery with higher catalytic activity and durability than similar batteries made with costly platinum and iridium catalysts. The results could lead to the development of a low-cost alternative … Read more

Get the SID for all the computer accounts in AD

if you’re an admin on the domain and all your computers are up and running you could try PSGETSID.EXE from what used to be Sysinternals (now part of Microsoft). Command would be something like: PSGETSID \\* > sid.txt http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s…s/default.aspx http://live.sysinternals.com/

MySQL management studio

MySQL Workbench provides DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for: Database Design & Modeling SQL Development (replacing MySQL Query Browser) Database Administration (replacing MySQL Administrator) http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Lync – cannot see Ad names in the address book

If you cannot see the names in the AD you need to  do this : http://blog.schertz.name/2010/09/updating-the-lync-2010-address-book/ Update Clients Just as Office Communicator has done since a later R2 hotfix, Lync also will not immediately download changes to the Address Book files when first launched, but instead wait for a random interval of time between 1 and … Read more

Windows 2008 – Windows failed to start

When booting Windows 2008 R2 you see this screen : _________________________ Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert the Windows 2008 R2 DVD and reboot. 2. Press a key when you see “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD…” 3. … Read more