windows 2008 installed fine on a 2850, but when booting the OS the screen would just go black. no further information. i did a reinstall and experienced the same exact thing. turns out you have to use the openmanage systems build and update utility to install windows 2008 on this system. i tried this and […]
the r710 has two pcie riser cards each with 2 slots. so there’s a total of 4 slots of available. unless..an optional pcie 16x riser card is installed (which only has one slot). i imagine the typical setup is riser1 with 2 slots of pcie 4x. riser2 with 2 slots of pcie 8x. riser2 is […]
i’ve seen this a few times on vista with a wireless connection. you’re clearly connected to an AP, you have an IP address, you can ping the gateway…but you can’t get out on the internet. hence “local access only”. i encountered it just recently again and after some lazy troubleshooting i ended up blaming it […]
phase1: success rapid prototyped a quick script for reading and writing to an XML doc on a UCCX server. far from ideal, but it functions. i need to mess around more with the expression editor to get the actual results i want. references: http://www.netcraftsmen.net/component/content/article/70-unified-communications/679-using-xml-files-to-control-a-crs-script.html http://www.uccx.net phase2: pending
backup VC database backup SSL certs attach database to new server run VC 4 installer total upgrade process = roughly 30 minutes. downtime only affects VC VC 4 hardware reqs: 2 CPUs 4GB of RAM windows 2008/sql 2008 update 5/18/2010: the SSL certs need to be copied to the new server (same directory structure) the […]
/etc/apt/sources.list …. deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free update 8/22/10: i just recently discovered how easy it is to update from debian stable to testing…simply […]
solution: http://kb.promise.com/KnowledgebaseArticle10073.aspx
a friend of mine (travis), recently had antispyware 2010 installed on his laptop. his attempt at removing it caused more problems. such as “Choose the program you want to open this file” dialog popping up when he tried to run anything. i walked him through some basic attempts at troubleshooting and was pretty close to […]
screen -list = list sessions screen -r <session> = reattach session inside of screen: Ctrl-a c = create new window Ctrl-a n = go to next window Ctrl-a p = go to previous window Ctrl-a ” = list windows Ctrl-a A = name window Ctrl-a d = detach session
issue: a particular microsoft security update breaks mail merge capabilities with blackbaud products. article: BB708164 summarized solution (from blackbaud knowledgebase): “1. Open the Windows Registry. 2. Locate the appropriate registry subkey (NOTE: If the WordPad registry key does not exist, it will need to be manually created): * For 32-bit versions of Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad. * […]