Understanding Enterprise Architecture

Posted by tneustaedter
Sep 22 2009

Introduction


The term "Enterprise Architecture" has multiple meanings. From a design/IT perspective, it's the process of capturing an organization's enterprise level business processes in the architecture of a system. Secondly, from a business perspective, it can be thought of as a current snapshot of an organization's existing IT infrastructure, business functions or processes, it's communication mechanisms and how data/information is shared throughout the organization. The function then, of an "Enterprise Architect" is to analyze the latter and use this information to implement or improve the former.

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O!Play HDP-RD1 and HDP-RD3 Firmware Upgrade How To

Submitted by tneustaedter on Fri, 2010-01-22 01:54

I have an ASUS O!Play HDP-R3 media player. Works great! It has HDMI 1080p output, UPnP and Samba network sharing, 802.11n wireless and 10/100 ethernet and multiple external inputs including USB (external drives/flash drives), memory cards and eSATA devices.

Only trouble was, finding the firmware and the upgrade instructions. So, I figured I'd better blog them for posterity sake.

These instructions apply for both the ASUS O!Play HDP-R1 and HDP-R3 units. Just be sure and download the appropriate firmware for your unit. There is different firmware for each of the units.

  1. Basically, got to the FTP site, find the appropriate version of your hardware, and grab the zip file.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Godmode

Submitted by tneustaedter on Wed, 2010-01-06 14:50

So Windows Vista and Windows 7 have a nice little undocumented feature you might enjoy. They call it Godmode. The point of Godmode is to give you full access to all configurable settings in the system from a single screen.


Simply create a folder anywhere in the system (I put mine on the desktop) and rename it to: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and it instantly becomes a shortcut to the Godmode view. You will be able to see every single configuration setting available, categorized, in the same window (see the screenshot below).



Godmode Snapshot


Enjoy.