3 fools and a printer.
DaleProblem: Konica Minolta C652 multi-function printer, with Fiery RIP installed, refuses to print. Cause & solution: If you leave the Fiery RIP Controller in Setup / Menu mode, it stops…
“If the users are looking at the wallpaper, they’re not doing work.”
Comment was in response to a customer’s request for a customised desktop wallpaper. Heck, if they want to pay for it, we’ll take their money.
From the crypt: old Microsoft KB articles I’ve collected.
Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP (KB314463) Essentially 32GB max size if using Windows XP/2000 to create it, 8 2 –> 8 terabyte if you wanted to…
Let’s really shoot ourselves in the foot.
There was a discussion at work the other week about system availability measurements. We’re aiming for “Five Nines”. Noble target, doubt we’ll achieve it though, without some clever availability exclusions. …
4. The number of times I’ve installed Windows 7 RTM since Saturday.
Problems arranged from: Changing from SATA IDE emulation to AHCI on an installed Windows 7, causes Windows 7 to Bluescreen. sidenote: can’t boot from my SATA CD-ROM drive when it’s…
WSUS does support Peer Caching unless
you have integrated your Microsoft WSUS server into your Microsoft SCCM 2007 architecture. So what is Peer Caching? Peer caching is a new feature of BITS 3.0 that allows peers…
Honk, hooooonk. “Get out of the way, it’s the Unix/Linux guys …
wanting to drive their *nix truck through your network security." This is one of my annoyances with Windows & Unix/Linux (collectively known as *nix) security. The annoyance starts with a…
Two SMS 2003 servers, one returns different data format for same query.
Problem When doing a database query via SQL, one of our Microsoft SMS 2003 Servers (MILDRED) was returning an incorrect number of characters (8) for a field. The field was…
11 programs to defragment your hard disk.
Back in February 2008, I wrote about what disk fragmenting was. A reader then followed up with “Well, what are my choices for a Windows disk defragmenter?” Here is a…
Tech-Ed 2005 DVD set – the presentation list.
This is the list of presentations from the Tech-Ed 2005 DVD set. And this is the final post in the series. Tech-Ed 2008 had the most number of presentations (701),…