This is one that stumped me for a couple of years when the schools I worked for switched from macs to Windows machines. I loved the ability to use Remote Desktop to control machines. The problem I frequently ran into was the inability to restart the machines. When you clicked on the “Start” menu, the [...]
I was working on a machine at work today and after adding it to our domain and logging in for the firt time as myself, I kept getting errors where Office 2003 was asking for the location of a file called SKUxxx.CAB. I couldn’t track down the original CDs (this computer has the Small Business version [...]
When looking for a guide on how to set up a signature in Microsoft Outlook, all of the guides I found were for Outlook 2007/2010 – so I thought I’d share my writeup for those other lost souls stuck on “legacy” software. 1) Select “Tools | Options…” from the menu in Outlook Tweet
Logging into the Windows 2003 Server felt like Zaphod Beeblebrox trying to fly Mr Hotblack Desiato’s spaceship: “Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it. What is this?” [...]
I’ve got a user who was experiencing repeated issues printing PDFs to his HP 1022n printer. About every 5-10 days,printing would grind to a halt, and the Print Spooler would repeatedly crash. Usually a restart of the computer (or the Print Spooler service) would fix the problem, but it was rapidly becoming a major pain [...]
CNet predicted that “VMware… will begin giving away one of its key products for free”, and it seems to be true! The “key product” is GSX server – their “lower end” software that runs on a Windows or Linux server. The re-branded product is now sinply called VMWare Server, and is completely free. My guess [...]
I just ran across the Corsaire White Paper: Securing Mac OS X via Slashdot. It’s a good read, and mentions quite a few things that should be in place for a mac with critical data, software, or network access. Tweet
I’ve been very interested in the series Linux Journal has been running on NX. They describe it as: “a new technology that allows one to run remote X11 sessions across slow or low-bandwidth network connections. User experience with NX is one of excellent responsiveness. Users with previous remote X11 session experience are stunned by NX’s [...]
Novell has recently “opened” their development of SUSE Linux, creating a project called Open SUSE To clarify what Novell means when it says it is “opening” SUSE, Mancusi-Ungaro says “SUSE Linux is already open from a code perspective. [It] has not been open from a development perspective. Development was closed, beta was closed, and there [...]
Ran across LinuxISOTorrent.com this week. It’s a comprehensive list of torrents for Linux distributions. It’s useful for me because the torrent search sites I use to find Linux torrents keep shutting down (because of legal reasons) or are blocked by our ISP’s filtering software. Tweet