deleting a service in windows can be done like so: from a administrator cmd prompt run sc delete “<service name>” source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-delete-a-windows-service-in-vista-or-xp/

after skimming multiple articles online i decided to change my 802.11n network’s frequency to 5ghz. several articles pointed out that there’s much less interference on the 5ghz band, better performance, and overall that it’s the “preferred” frequency for 802.11n. turns out that i should have read more into the articles. a big downside to using […]

the original tomato firmware hasn’t been updated in some time. it looks like development ceased on a promising tomato mod called tomatoUSB as well. however, tomatoUSB did add compatibility to newer routers such as the cisco/linksys e2000. there are 2 active mods that branched off from tomatoUSB that i’m interested in. they are: shibby – http://tomato.groov.pl tomato […]

the time has finally come where i need to move on to ESXi. i decided if i must do it, then i might as well install it on an SD card. so i went to check our r710’s and they don’t have the internal sd card module. what we paid for instead was the vflash […]

info to consider before deleting a user: BB55385 https://www.blackbaud.com/kb/index?page=content&id=BB55385

keep base image as small as possible lock down guest OS so end-users cannot write data outside of network shares replicas stored on fast disks (SSDs or 15K), linked clones on slower disks windows 7 image, 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM (2GB for power users) suggested max desktops in a pool = 400 (verify) per vmware […]

i was trying to install oracle database 11g on solaris 11 and ran into a roadblock. the install requires at least 1GB of free swap space. luckily i found a blog entry where someone else was having the same exact problem and posted a solution for it. here it is in a few steps: root@solaris:~# […]

a while ago i stumbled upon a really cool vintage terminal called cathode (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode). unfortunately, thus far it’s only available for mac os x. i’ve been looking for a similar terminal for linux. i haven’t really found anything that’s equivalent to cathode, but today i found out that 2 xscreensaver modules (apple2 and phosphor) can […]

encountered an issue a few months ago where a couple of users reported duplicate messages in their unity mailboxes. i verified that this was indeed the case. same exact time stamp and same content. i looked around for a solution and found something on a forum that suggested restarting the Connection MTA service. this service […]

i upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 two months ago and i don’t have much to say about it. which could be taken as a good or bad thing. to me, it’s mostly good because i keep getting a desktop that i want with little to no changes. i know there’s still so much talk about the […]