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Pick Me – Pick Meeeeee !!!!

This entry was posted in Software Tips Web on January 31, 2008 by HAL

I like to know what readers find interesting on this Blog – so that I can see if the information is what they are after and whats hot at the moment. You can get some of this from the statistics and utilisation plugins mentioned here. So a plugin for WordPress comes in very handy – […]

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More WordPress Goodies

This entry was posted in Software Tips Web on January 30, 2008 by HAL

As I mentioned before WordPress is an extensible platform for blogging. So what other useful addins are there ? This is just a small selection from the vast range out there but that I have found useful. For an absolute overload on the plugins available for WordPress – take a long look at http://wp-plugins.net TagAlly […]

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Stopping cached logins with cached credentials ?

This entry was posted in Software Web on January 30, 2008 by HAL

Following up on the previous articles about cached logons and the trouble they can cause here and here – a further note is in order on what you can do about it!! Windows operating systems, including 2000, XP, and 2003, cache the logon credentials for the last 10 users. This allows for the user to […]

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Watching out for cached credentials !

This entry was posted in Software Web on January 29, 2008 by HAL

During an investigation into problems when remote machines belonging to a client appeared not to be able to authenticate correctly with a domain controller across VPN links over adsl and a recently introduced leased line – some useful points were raised. 1) Is your provider blocking any traffic ? After recently putting in a leased […]

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Time to go to the (Win)Dump ?

This entry was posted in Tips Web on January 29, 2008 by HAL

When looking at network problems most people focus at the higher levels – the physical links – settings on PCs – DNS and Wins arrangements. So what happens when you are seeing strange behaviours and want to know more about whats going on under the covers. For many years the tool of choice for most […]

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Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers (or how hard can it be to read a tape then!)

This entry was posted in Software Web on January 23, 2008 by HAL

“Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers” – thats what I was getting when reading a tape on a drive that should be backward compatible with the drive that created the tape in the first place. Some background : The tape was created on a Redhat 4 ES server – in “tar” format (thats what we are […]

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The Iphone “Iphone” could not be updated. An unknown error occurred (1602).

This entry was posted in Gadgets Software Web on January 22, 2008 by HAL

Not what I wanted to see really. I’d just gotten around to downloading the January 2008 update to see the new goodies like Improved maps New homepage management The ability to send multiple SMS texts View lyrics in music Access chapters in video Grab webclips from the Internet. So to get around the 1602 error […]

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Perflib error in system status log – and a full system event log to you too ..

This entry was posted in Software Web on January 22, 2008 by HAL

Perflib error in system status log – The Open Procedure for service “ASP.NET_2.0.50727” in DLL “C:WINNTMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727aspnet_perf.dll” failed and then The Open Procedure for service “ASP.NET_2.0.50727” in DLL “C:WINNTMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727aspnet_perf.dll” failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. Status code returned is data DWORD 0. Mmmm – mainly I’ve found this pesky error on Windows […]

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