had another recent scare with the ext3 file system. this time, fortunately, there was a happy ending. i had an external usb drive that suddenly started behaving strange when i attempted to copy files to it. the file copy was just flat out rejected. i tried unmounting and remounting the drive – same thing. eventually […]

for windows servers (that use IIS) a CSR can be generated from the IIS manager. csr creation: http://www.digicert.com/csr-creation.htm certificate import/export process: http://www.digicert.com/import-export-ssl-certificate.htm info for tomcat certs: https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/keytool.htm http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-tomcat.htm specific tomcat info regarding sysaid: http://www.sysaid.com/Sysforums/posts/list/329.page for apache, it might be necessary to combine the entire cert chain in a single file. to do so create a […]

according to this: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5493/~/cannot-see-hosted-database filemaker 12 pro cannot connect to filemaker server 11. also filemaker pro 11 would be unable to connect to filemaker server 12 as the databases would need to be in v12 format to be hosted.

project server 2010 needs to run on top of sharepoint 2010 enterprise. you can supposedly install project server 2010 as a stand-alone instance, but even when doing so, it is installing sharepoint 2010 components underneath it. i haven’t tried this myself. anyways, microsoft docs say such a setup wouldn’t be production worthy. this site tells […]

i guess certain video apps require a wmvcore.dll to be present in windows. the dll seems to be related to windows media player. anyways, to install the library in windows server add the windows feature “Desktop Experience” and reboot. source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ramg/archive/2010/02/09/using-camtasia-on-windows-2008-server.aspx

replaying starcraft… i can play all the way through the terran campaign without resorting to cheating. i remember having a difficult time on some of the later terran levels. for the zerg campaign i used a money cheat on mission 8 because i just wasn’t in the mood to deal with the escaping dark templars. […]