I have been experiencing this problem more and more, as the proliferation of non-routable ip networks increases. Basically, I am at an airport, hotel, customer site, or other location and they happen to be using the same ip address range as we do at the corporate offices. For example: Corporate uses 10.1.x.x network range (mail…
I have been researching and trying to resolve this error for the past couple of weeks (off and on). It only happens on Windows 2000 machines, and seems to have started sometime in Aug-2007. Other items, it only happens if the machine is left on over night, and rebooting will fix the problem. The “Details:…
I was passed along this posting… http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/03/22/rock-your-google-calendar-in-18-ways/ and since I learned a number of things that Google Calendar could do, I figured I would pass along this link in case others are looking to improve their Google Calendar “skills”.
Called Apple Care today, regarding a MacBook Pro that appears to have a“moldy” spot on the LCD just to the left of center. They indicated that Iwould need to take the unit to an Authorized Service Center or the localApple Store and have the techs review it and determine what needs to bedone. They provided…
I recently had to help someone restore the “Show Desktop” icon, after theyaccidentally deleted it from their Quick Launch bar in Windows XP. I foundthis handy little utility, and wanted to pass it along to those that mayneed it. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_showdesktop.htm
If you are using Outlook 2003, or possibly Outlook 2007, and are getting a message about your Personal Folder (.pst file) being full, you can fix it using the details below: If you have upgraded from a version Office before 2003, the PST files that are being created are in a Office97-2002 format, and those…
This weekend, I was asked to look at a system that wouldn’t allow the owner to use a USB External Harddrive (Maxtor Personal Storage 3200, 160GB). It was correctly seen by the machine and available in device manager, and the disk management utilities. However, it wasn’t assigned a drive letter by default, and attempts to…
I was updating some Nagios configuration by hand editing various configuration files. This “pain” reminded me to check and see if there were any updates to Nagios, and of course there was a few updates (2.4 -> 2.9) since the last time I updated it. I grabbed the latest Nagios and the latest plugins to…
If you install Microsoft Virtual Server on a “server” machine and after starting a virtual host on the machine you lose all network connectivity to the “host” machine you should read the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888750 It indicates that VS2005R2 has an issue with TCP segmentation offloading or other “offloading” to the NIC … so you have…
After putting off the upgrade as long as possible, I finally broke down and purchased the upgrade from v3.x. I was immediately impressed with the dual-monitor support, x64 OS support, and the transparent windows abilities. This product is great example of remote-administration/support software that allows an admin to install the daemon and start it remotely…