Windows Update website – Error 0x80240025
Daleon a Windows XP PC. As I wrote in Windows Update: Network policy settings prevent you from using this website ..., you’d often see a Windows Update error when your…
One way to wipe a BlackBerry
I needed to wipe the firmware off a BlackBerry. Looking around, I found a useful little utility, JL_Cmder. Now JL_Cmder is a frontend to the JavaLoader.exe, so you could use…
Sitemaps generation
When I was setting up blog.wisefaq.com, I needed a way to generate a Sitemap. A Sitemap is an easy way for a website owner to tell a search engine, like…
“One of these things is not the same as the others.”
When I was growing up, that was a game on Sesame Street. It’s the same with Mobile/cell phone & PDA earpiece attachments: The sharp eyed amongst you will have noticed…
Jasc Image Robot
is a great little program I use for doing group conversions of graphics files. Things like, jpg –> png format conversion, image watermarking and image cropping. Image cropping is today’s…
The InstallShield “Temp” Directory trick.
But you can use it with other installers as well. When you click on an Installshield created setup.exe, it will extract it’s contents to your TEMP directory. These contents include…
“Windows Update: Network policy settings prevent you
… from using this website to get updates for your computer. If you believe you have received this message in error, please contact your system administrator." This often happens on…
A good patch management policy
A good patch management policy is needed to protect you from risk, and to encourage the attacker to find easier/unpatched victims. Selfish but true. Know your risk. Security is risk…
Things I learnt when migrating from Blogger
So you want to move from Blogger to WordPress? I don’t blame you, Blogger has it’s limitations. The one’s which annoyed me were: not being able to use my own…
eTrust AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning.
Computer Associates used to recommend excluding particular processes and directories from eTrust anti-virus scanning. This, I found, was very important with Microsoft SQL Server, as it would cause a significant…