i was working on a brand new 2013 laptop yesterday. i spent hours (no exaggeration) on this thing. and i had my first moment where i felt old and out of touch with the current technology. most notably all the UEFI stuff. it really made me miss the antiquated BIOS. anyways, i wanted to load […]
very recently…a dell c1765 mfp was deployed and installed as a printer on a papercut secondary print server. jobs printed to this print queue were listed as 0 pages and thus not being charged the appropriate cost per page. the issue was isolated to this particular printer. unfortunately, there was no alternative driver to test […]
i encountered an oddity today for the first time. most of my experience with windows 2003 is based upon windows 2003 R2…so that’s probably why i’ve never seen this before. in the non-R2 release when you try to RDP to the local console user’s session it initiates a separate session. doesn’t seem like a big […]
for additional security, SMB signing can be enabled on windows servers. however, according to microsoft and other sources, enabling this feature can degrade file transfer performance up to 15%. so it may not be a good idea to enable it on heavily used file servers…but might as well enable it on servers that do not […]
charles recently brought this issue to my attention. we’ve had more than a handful of outlook 2013 users complain about calendaring issues and being unable to connect to exchange servers (and so on). turns out the problem is caused by having outlook 2013 and certain MS updates installed. microsoft released a fix for the issue […]
i noticed this issue nearly a month ago. after a host would be running for a couple of days and joined to vcenter the resources pane on the summary tab would look “blank” (as in cpu usage: 0mhz, memory usage: 0mb). the first time i saw it i rebooted the host and the issue went […]
if you have sql logins that are based on AD users and the AD username changes at some point, these changes are not updated automatically in ms sql. i’ve read various posts that claim that restarting the sql service or the server entirely will cause the sql login info to update. i have yet to […]
haven’t been on 5.1 too long and i’m already looking into moving to 5.5. i’m motivated by the fact that there are some critical shortcomings (some new, some longstanding) that are addressed in 5.5. in addition, 5.1 seems to be a somewhat buggy release. i’ve been reading through various kb articles and the install guide […]
this will be my last post concerning VDR. recently, experienced an issue where i could no longer connect to the appliance via the VDR plugin. i tried a couple of things…restarting the VDR service on the appliance, restarting the appliance, and even uninstalling/reinstalling the VDR plugin. none of the above worked. eventually found an article […]
i played age of mythology all the way through on moderate during the last few weeks. i also finished all of the golden gift bonus scenario on moderate. however, i cheated on the final mission of the golden gift – “loki’s temples”. i felt like that mission was a bit unbalanced. the computer opponent mass […]