How to fix the “Cannot attach the virtual hard disk …”
Dale... to the virtual machine. Check the values provided and try again.” error It sucks as an error message. Would it take too much programming effort to make it more…
Tape backup, reliable? Never ever!
Or how tape backups have failed my customers over the years, and wasted our collective time, because of customer stupidity. Melted tapes The school which stored their entire backup…
USB to ISA adapter board
Got an old PC which you cannot replace because it’s got a specialised ISA Adapter board in it? ISA, dear reader, was introduced in 1981, with the original IBM PC. …
“… concerned about the heating of external drives …”
“I'm concerned about the heating of external drives because many of these little enclosures provide no active air flow across the drive.”, opines Steve Gibson. And in the field of…
Computer Hardware Poster
Everyone I’ve shared this poster: with, has said, “Where did you get it?” Right here: sonic84.com and sonic84 @ deviantart.com
“… No Terminal Server License Servers available …”
Strangely enough, I see this error occasionally when I connect to our corporate Citrix server farm. Googling for the answer, I found Microsoft’s answer, which was less than helpful. As…
It’s a new BlackBerry Bold (the 9700).
So Telstra Australia have finally released the BlackBerry Bold 9700. And if you loved the BlackBerry Curve 8300 series, you’ll love the new Bold. If you have a BlackBerry Bold…
Internet Explorer has issues with session cookies, fancy that.
The problem was reported thus. Internet Explorer is not storing session cookies for XYZ website. The session cookies are stored when we use Firefox. Two hours later, I can tell…
Generic PC Found
When creating a desktop operating system install, we’ll often have a "computer specific” section, where we’ll install particular software for particular PCs. For example, we would install fingerprint scanning software…
“Beware of Integrated eSATA ports”
I don’t like quoting whole slabs of another blogs posts, but this is worth spreading to a wider audience: … If you only use a single drive attached to an…