1. Install SQL 2008 Management Studio Express Install Management Express Studio from Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Management Studio Express Install tools only 2. Update the Install with MS SQL Service Pack 3 Immediately run Windows Button ==> All Program ==>...
James McDonald
Things that hold us back
Some notes regarding a Brian Tracy Series of Videos http://youtu.be/RILoZ0Vx4Xc Feelings of: Doubt & Fear Guilt & Unworthiness Inferiority & Undeservingness Emotional habits are learned. We can unlearn bad emotions. Law of Cause and Effect. Find someone...
Testing a Remote Computers WMI Connectivity
Just had a situation where I ghosted then virtualized a Windows SBS2003 server once it was on VMWare I installed SBS2003 Service Pack 1 and all the patches required for a SBS2011 upgrade. Unseen by me this appears to have updated the Domain firewall Policy and turned...
Ghost Boot Wizard Fails at Preparing Disks
Just spent an unproductive morning try to get the Ghost Boot Wizard (version 11.5.1.2266) to copy a winpe image to a Vebatim 4GB USB Key (NG04G2520005743DML) I would go through the wizard and when I got to the end and it said "Preparing Disks" GBW would exit - no...
Just installed recoll ( a desktop search tool ) and it complains about heaps of missing "helper" applications. I couldn't install pstotext unless I add a repository as listed at the above link. I also found that the missing helper list is located in...
When Super Tankers Attack
On 8 June 2007 the Pasha Bulker ran aground in Newcastle. Just found these photos so thought I would post them.
Setting up Gnome Desktop to use DIA in Single Window Mode
On Fedora 17 install the menu editor program named alacarte. yum install alacarte Launch it and find dia under Graphics and click properties In the properties window edit the lauch command to include --integrated as shown Now when you launch Dia you should have nicely...
UMBrello KDE UML Diagram Creator
Update: Not a fan of Umbrello has a lot of features for UML but too many functionality gotcha's and bugs (from a user stand point I can't comment on it's UML implementation because I'm a newb on UML) I ran into the can't a Anchor a Note to an Activity with error...
QCAD 3
My most favourite open source application QCAD is now at version 3. I buy a license for the "Pro" version because it's just a fantastic easy to use product. At my $DAYJOB today I found out QCAD 3 (I was using RC5) can open dwg files so now it's as useful to me as the...
Setting wget to use a HTTPS proxy
Edit /etc/wgetrc for global change or ~/.wgetrc for a per user change and add: http_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 https_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 ftp_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 Where 192.168.50.22 is the IP Address of your proxy server and 3128 is...
