A user at one of my clients ran into this today. He couldn’t open any images that were attached to Outlook. (Outlook 2003) Â I first just cleared out any temp files in c:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Temp folder and reset it to NOT be read only. Also reset all perms in that folder and […]
I don’t know how users have been managing to get into a bind with this, but twice in the last couple weeks I’ve been called by people with no internet access, yet they still have server file shares working. Â Everything seems fine in their adapter settings for IP and browser […]
I was having some major issues while attempting to run Zend Framework 2 on Lighttpd because my rewrite rules were not as easy to create as Apache. Â Actually, I can’t say they are harder, just way different. Â Here’s what seems to be working now though: url.rewrite-if-not-file = ( “/(.*)$” […]
Note to self: Fix this Error in Apache PHP Suexec FastCGI session_start open O_RDWR Permission Denied Warning: session_start(): open(path-to-tmp-dir, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied(13) The solution was simple, but in most of my PHP scripts it didn’t even show this error. The fix: Go to your /var/tmp directory. (or wherever you […]
So with the big outage today, I did some quick looking around. Just wondered if there were any DNS registrars that have decent security practices. It’s tough to find. Not that the attack on GoDaddy was a security breach, it wasn’t. It was a Denial of Service attack, not a […]
Qwest / Centurylink DSL Web site timeouts, hangups, or failures while running a firewall or router with static IP addresses. Recently I setup the Qwest DSL service in my home. It worked great, but after a couple days I started to get hang ups and timeouts or hangups while browsing […]
Somehow my wife got MyWebSearch loaded on my Windows 7 computer, which cleaned off fine, except for Firefox web searching! Every time I used the Awesome Bar to search, MyWebSearch showed the results. Easy fix… Â go to “about:config” in Firefox by typing it in the URL bar. Â In the Filter […]
I ran into an issue with Outlook 2010 and Gmail POP3 access today. One of my clients had two computers he wanted his Gmail on, they both use POP3 to get the email. Problem he had was that only one computer would download the email, even with the setting to […]
If you are like me, you don’t have time to run nmap scans and do other network maintenance. Running nmap is one of those really fun and useful tools that are easy to use, but since I rarely use it, I never remember the options. Â Today was one of those […]
I tested Windows 7, Jolicloud, Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick, and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on my new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) Netbook. Â First let me say, Window 7 on this netbook is barely usable. If you wait for the OS to finish booting, which takes at least 5 minutes before all […]
I am always getting ideas, and this might be a cool one. I want a new Facebook. I want to make my own version of it. Only, not centrally controlled, and not a direct single-place-to-go site to be social. Why? Because I foresee a downfall. And because Facebook, if its […]
Well, if you’re like me, you probably love Google Chrome browser. And although the latest version of Firefox (3.6) is much improved in speed, it launches fast and browses quick, I still like Chrome better now that I am used to it. Especially now that it’s got my two favorite […]
I had a client recently that had their browsers hijacked. Everything they typed in the browser ended up redirecting them to some test_s.php file at “www.fes.skâ€. (Don’t open that, or you might end up with a virus! I just wanted people to find this in case it might help clean […]
there’s a thing in Ubuntu called Apparmor. Never even heard of this. This is what was keeping the files from being written to by the bind daemon.
In Exchange 2007, you have a nice little GUI to set your FQDN on your Send Connector. (Mine is called Outbound, as shown below.) You can see my FQDN, set under the Hub Transport/Send Connectors of the Exchange Management Console. However, if you send mail out to an external address, […]
Had to spend a few minutes reminding myself how to configure this. Easy as pie! Even works with images now!!! Yay! While in a “New Blog” in Word 2007, click the Manage Accounts buton. (A wizard will probably start the process the first time you do this, but here’s the […]
I’ve run into this a few times, thought I’d record the solution for once so I remember it. After adding a new user account, the user does not show up in Outlook’s Global Address List, but does show in All Users. (If you click “To” in a new message, for […]
In Internet Explorer 7, Tools, Internet Options, Advanced tab. The checkbox for “enable integrated windows authentication” is very confusing. You would think this means “just log me in with my windows credentials”, but no, there’s more to it than that. And what I found was, it simply enables “Negotiate”. It […]
One of the main reasons I don’t use Firefox in an Intranet environment, is due to the logon prompt from IIS Windows Authentication. I keep having problems with IE7 on Vista losing the auto-NTLM auth, where it asks for my password, when it’s supposed to just log me in based […]
I love how people always say that a software firewall like IPCop is a “lesser” product than a hardware system. I ran into one site speaking of Netsentron as a hardware solution. I’d also include Endian Firewall and Untangle when we talk about a “linux based hardware firewall”. Well here’s […]
