Don't want to send passwords in plain text emails? You could obviscate them using ASCII art. For a great ASCII Art generator, see this link http://patorjk.com/software/taag/ The text above used the 'big' font. Try it, it will while away your time if you are bored. :-)...
Whilst playing with embedded linux for a job I am working on, I came across the need to take a copy of a partition on one device, and move it across onto another. I was using the linux command line utility, nanddump and outputing to a file on an NFS share but I couldn't load this into another device...
Recently I had a problem with the autofocus of my Olympus Digital Camera. I came across this page, which uses Moire Interference Patterns for teh testing. It helped me to evaluate my problem but I didn't get enough time to finish it off, so is blogged here so that I can come back to it later. http...
After downloading the new Fedora 16 Live CD and installing to disk in VMWare ESXi, the first thing I needed to do was to install the VMWare tools so that I get good integration between the Guest and Host. To do this there is a bit of dancing around that needs to be performed. So, from the Live CD, first...
After trying a number of times to set up an iSCSI target in a VMWare virtual machine using FreeNas, I failed miserably until I found this little gem of an article http://www.fixtheexchange.com/Budget-Laboratory-Part2-iSCSI-Virtual-SAN-with-FreeNAS-8 Hope it will be useful for somebody else....
First off, this is for home use only, just a few connections. If you are looking for a cheap alternative to a Cisco router, you are not in the right place! The Windows XP network stack is quite capable of low traffic routing. You can do this with the ICS (Internet connection sharing wizard) but that...
Today during a maintenece period, I noticed the following in a Windows SBS server log: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {some-cls-id-here} to the user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE SID (some-sid-here). This...
Today I wanted to install Exchange Service Pack 3 on my SBS 2008 box. MSKB 982423 says the only thing to worry about is Forefront, which I’m not using. I ran setup.exe as an Administrator. The Readiness checks passed fine. However within a few seconds of starting the upgrade, I got this error:...
Tonight I was trying to upgrade an SBS 2008 server that was running MS Exchage 2007 SP1 to SP3 and had the following error when running the extracted setup.exe. "Failed to initialize t he log file: Access to the path "c:\ExchangeSetupLogs\ExchangeSetup.log" is denied. Setup will not continue...
I used to use Roxio to write ISO images to CD but it was too heavy for what I needed. In comes a nice light utility that works on all versions of windows including Windows7 http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm...
