In the second outage in around two weeks Microsoft’s flagship web suite Office 365 has suffered loss of service. Thats really being out of Office ! Whats causing it is yet unreported but the issue reinforces the fact that businesses and organisations need to think long and hard about putting all of their eggs in […]
This tip relates to a very specific problem which is the creation of Ubuntu desktop virtual machine (32bit) on vmware vsphere client on a samsung 200B windows 7 laptop. The problem is that when trying to switch to the vm for the start of installation – movements of the scroll pad or external mouse are […]
A client required a link between two locations to allow disaster recovery planning to create off site copies of virtual machines and dat. However the preferred fibre optic option was not possible and the client required a higher bandwidth that conventional fibre to cabinet offerings such as BT Infinity. Enter a wireless bridge – in […]
Before you panic – it simply asks “Do you speak Spanish – Adobe?”. This strangeness occurred when automatically installing Acrobat reader from the acrobat reader web site. Instead of the expected .exe file being downloaded – I was surprised to see the Mac version of the reader with a .dmg file extension being offered. Not […]
For the third time in three weeks the villian in the piece has turned out to be Acrobat Reader. The first instance was very high cpu utilisation. The second was the incorrect configuration of associations for pdfs after an upgrade of Acrobat. The final was the slow opening of pdf documents. The common factor was […]
The Nagios “addon” – check_mk makes the use of Nagios as a monitoring solution even more appealing. The windows monitoring agent allows tailored custom checks to ensure that the operating system and application subsystems are running correctly. In fact its flexibility is pretty much limited only by what you can think to check. The current […]
If you are trying to install Windows 8 build 9200 enterprise on a Pentium 4 PC, but upon boot, are getting the following error message ( or very similar) : Your PC needs to restart Please hold down the power button Error Code 0x0000005D Parameters 0x030F0401 0x756E6547 0x49656E69 0x6C65746E Unlike Windows Vista and 7, Windows 8 (as from […]
f you are trying to install Windows 8 build 9200 enterprise on a Pentium 4 PC, but upon boot, are getting the following error message ( or very similar) : Your PC needs to restart Please hold down the power button Error Code 0x0000005D Parameters 0x030F0401 0x756E6547 0x49656E69 0x6C65746E Unlike Windows Vista and 7, Windows 8 (as from […]
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