Got a new Blackjack II (SGH-i67) from AT&T for work. Figured it was also time to sort out the tethering that could be done with it.

So...I have an HP 8510P laptop, and realized after some research that the only way I am going to get this thing to tether is with the USB cable. That is a bummer, but the way things are. The following information is critical to the process.

Just a quicky post. I use drupal for a number of sites, and always have to lookup the database permissions required. Here they are nicely summarized. Essentially what I do is create a new user for each site that I am going to create. That new user has exclusive permissions to a new schema that I create for the site. Then I grant the following access rights to the database:

Had a question about setting limits for incoming and outgoing email size when sending to or recieving from the internet. This topic is a bit confusing, because there are default limit overrides in a users object in Active Directory Users & Computers. These overrides only apply to INTERNAL mail though. Since all Internet mail has to pass through the SMTP connector, the global settings applied to that connector take precendence. Microsoft has a great KB article that summarizes the settings for limits on email size. Is there a workaround?

So I have been tasked with moving an old NT4 server off some legacy hardware into our virtual infrastructure. Required some digging around to sort out what tools I can and can't use, so I thought I would summarize them here for you.