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I recently had a Windows 2003 Server that for some reason would not return even a single page through IIS. I was getting the dreaded “Service Not Available” error. Upon investigation I noticed several events in the Windows Event log with ID 1002 and 1009. After some googling a few dozen searches on the subject […]
I recently had a client come to me with an old server that is no longer in service that he wanted to clean up. As there was some data on the server that still needed to exist after the cleanup I could not simply rebuild the server from scratch. However this server was a Windows […]
I had a client come to me with a Windows Vista 64 bit laptop that displayed an error on startup. The error was related to a file lxcgtime.dll. It appears that it is a file related to a Lexmark printer the user had installed but no longer uses. I read about the possibility of copying […]
In a previous post (see it here ) I wrote about a problem I was having with my Dell Studio 1737 laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit edition. I was experiencing an intermitent problem where the CPU would hover at close to 50% even when the laptop was idle. After reseting my laptop […]
I came across an interesting Linux distribution I though I might try out called eBox. From their website eBox Platform can act as a Gateway, an Infrastructure Manager, a Unified Threat Manager, an Office Server, a Unified Communication Server or a combination of them. One single, easy-to-use platform to manage all your network services. I […]
This is a quick how to article on using some basic command line tools to administer VMware server 2 virtual machines running on a Linux system. In my case I am running Vmware Server on Centos 5.4 but I’m sure this will be very similar if not exactly the same on other versions of Linux. […]
Seems that my It Fixed it for me article series are some of the more popular posts on my blog so here is a quick list of the latest 13 It Fixed it for me Articles. How to remove Antivirus System PRO How to hide the mysql information_schema database. VMware MUI blank page Event ID […]
As you may have already heard Samsung has released an update for the Samsung Omnia SCH-i910 Cell phone. The latest update is the CF03 and is available from the Samsung website. There is a fairly straight forward install directions page located here. This page is for performing the upgrade on a Windows XP (32bit) system. […]
Antivirus System PRO is apparently a new rogue program that infects your pc then nags you about false infections in attempt to scam the user to purchase the software. Antivirus System PRO will nag the user with bogus pop ups claiming infections that are not really present. For example, I had a pc with this […]
This is a quick post on how to hide the information_schema database from standard users. In teaching a web design class I set up a few test student accounts on my mysql Linux database server for the class to play with. However when they logged in to phpmyadmin they could see their own database as […]
