Suppose, hypothetically, that a friend decided to give you an APC power strip that he wasn’t using, and that you could theoretically control 8 of the ports’ on/off status individually, but you didn’t know how. If you’re a DIYer like myself, you would of course want to make this happen. So you Google and instantly …
[ Continue Reading... ]I use Cacti to graph all sorts of things, and we recently upgraded to a Cisco ASA firewall. For a long time I couldn’t figure out what this message was that kept appearing: Deny icmp src outside:1.2.3.4 dst inside:10.0.0.2 (type 3, code 3) by access-group “outside_access_in” [0x0, 0x0] Since Google wasn’t very helpful, I did …
[ Continue Reading... ]I use Dropbox daily. It’s a great utility, I use it to sync files between 5 or more systems that I use on a regular basis. In fact, I’ve found that it cuts build time way down when I’m setting up a new system, because I use PortableApps inside Dropbox. The only downside is that …
[ Continue Reading... ]What do you look for in a home wireless router? I was at Fry’s Electronics the other day, in the home wireless router section, trying to pick up an Access Point to extend a network. While I was there, a man walked into the aisle and asked for help. The employee responded, “Are you looking …
[ Continue Reading... ]VMWare Converter creates new adapters every time you move a virtual machine from one ESX server to another, or convert a physical machine to a virtual machine. In windows, this causes problems due to the below: (taken from http://www.vadapt.com/tag/vmware/page/3/ ): Under certain conditions, you may see the following error message from a Windows guest operating …
[ Continue Reading... ]I had a lot of trouble with this, so I’m posting the solution for all to benefit. Thanks to this blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/john_pollard/archive/2007/03/07/performance-counters-fun.aspx) for the solution. My test code is as follows: $cmd = “typeperf \”\\\\”.getenv(“HTTP_HOST”).”\\processor(_Total)\\% Processor Time\” -sc 1″; echo $cmd . “<br/>”; echo exec($cmd, $result=array()); print_r($result); IIS is set up to use the IUSR_MACHINENAME …
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Update: Sleigh was published November 23 and can be found in the app store when you search for the keyword “Sleigh”. Please visit http://www.aqfire.com/sleigh/ for more info and for the iTunes download link. Hello everyone, November 16, I submitted my first iPhone game to the App Store to be published. I’d like to write a …
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Chances are you have run into this problem if you have ever tried copying your files from Windows to another computer, using Windows Explorer, to back them up. You get an error such as “Cannot copy filename: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file …
[ Continue Reading... ]I just started experimenting with PowerShell for a project I’m doing. I haven’t seen any good examples on the web for how to run a PowerShell script generically from a batch file, so I’m sharing this framework. First of all, before you run PowerShell scripts, you must change the security settings so that they will …
[ Continue Reading... ]Problem: My mirrored RAID array died on a Dell Precision 380. The hard drives were 80 GB each, and I wanted to create a new array that was bigger, and move everything to the new array. Tools used: BartPE (PEBuilder) - Microsoft DiskPart - DriveImage XML - Dell Support (for Drivers) REGEDIT and SC (Windows …
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