Microsoft may contribute $1 billion to $3 billion to help take Dell private.
“To meet an asking price of $13 to $14 a share, or $22 billion to $25 billion, Silver Lake and the other investors would need to put up $2 billion in equity, the Journal said at the time. Michael Dell could use his existing stock, worth around $3.6 billion, according to the Journal. More funds could come from cash on Dell’s balance sheet and new debt of around $15 billion.”
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When you right-click any shortcut, and select Pin to Taskbar a new shortcut is pinned in the Windows taskbar. The problem with this is the large amount of space between those shortcuts. There’s no way to actually modify that space, but there is a work around that can eliminate the extra space.
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Today marks the start of my new career with Dell as a Systems Integration Sr. Advisor.
Slowly but surely I’m upgrading our Server 2003 DC’s to server 2008. When the DC that the I.T. department was authenticating against was Server 2003, we used the Acctinfo.dll module from the Windows 2003 Resource Kit. This module gave us an Additional Account Info tab on the Users Object that displayed, among other things, when their password expires or expired. Unfortunately, there is no such module available for Server 2008, so I turned to PowerShell to get the job done. I found a PowerShell script written by M. Ali over on MSDN that does exactly what we needed.
Just to be a geek and also to see my wife roll her eyes. I decided to carve a pumpkin to help announce the release of Windows 7.
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