James McDonald

I have an Java application that polls a Time and Attendance clock and connects to a ODBC datasource and injects the records into a database table. I recently moved it from an old 32-bit server Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 R2 and couldn't get it to connect to the...

I am running Fedora 18. If I connect to my remote Outlook Web App with Google Chrome I get the "use the light version of Outlook Web App" already pre-ticked and logging in it is indeed the Light Version. So I've been suprised to find if I use Firefox 19.0 that I can...

Just trying to Install SBS Premium Edition Add-on specifically the SQL component from the ISO "SW_DVD9_SQL_Svr_for_Small_Bus_2008_R2_English_MLF_X16-29732.ISO" Getting this error: SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise setup: During the Setup Support Files: Error reading from...

I have used a reverse proxy setup to protect my SBS 2003 server for the last 7 or so years. This last weekend I migrated from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 and suddenly access to the SBS2011 Outlook Web App via my Apache reverse proxy setup broke. I traced the problem to the...

The things I like about using a regularly released Opensource Operating System Every 6 months I am forced to backup and cleanup my computer to install the newest version When you first install it there are bugs which are fixed with each update. So your user experience...

Problem: [user@host01 ~]$ FBReader loading /usr/lib64/zlibrary/ui/zlui-active.so ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 5823, errno = 0 [user@host01 ~]$ Cause: Installing the latest updates and forgetting to reboot for several days Resolution Reboot!...

In the "come on you wanna use our service" information that these cloud storage solutions provide, you will see words like "secure" "encrypted" and many other synonyms for "your data is safe and secure with us". The good thing about cloud storage is your (potentially)...

Normally when I get a SPAM email with a weblink in it I like to have a look at what is on the remote page without allowing it to exploit Firefox, Internet Explorer or Chrome vulnerabilities. So I request the bogus page using wget When requesting a SPAM link using wget...

I've been using QCAD for a few years to do house plans and structural design. It is a fantastic easy-to-use product. But I've come to the limit on some of it's features. Until today I didn't even know there was an alternative opensource version named FreeCAD but...

In linux do: mkfs.msdos -C floppy.flp 1440 # mount it mkdir floppy sudo mount -o loop floopy.flp floppy cp <what_you_need_on_floppy> floppy/ sudo umount floppy   Once you have created the image copy it up to your datastore and then point your VM floppy...

I want to install from an ISO a copy of Windows SBS 2011 which is WIndows 2008 R2 with a dress on. I want to run from the word go the paravirtual scsci controller driver. And to install a mass storage driver from install you need to mount the driver on a floppy. So...

I had an MD3200 array failure the other day. And so I've decided to re-install the Redhat Operating System on the R710 Dell server and re-setup multipathing. Here are some of the things that I've done: Install Redhat 5  using the Dell Resource CD and then yum update...

Create a backup dir # create a directory to hold the backup files mkdir /storage/backup # create a backup script file /storage/backup/embedded_db_backup.sh # make it executeable chmod +x /storage/backup/embedded_db_backup.sh Add the following to the backup script...

Just had a situation where I need to find and replace a value in multiple html, js, php files starting in /var/www/html and descending to replace all instances. This worked for me. fgrep srv-02 * -lR | xargs sed -i.bak -e 's/srv-02/srv-04/g' Basically the above means...