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Dansguardian causing Windows Update Error: 8024402F
Just had a problem with a failing Windows Update on a Windows 2008 R2 Server "Windows Update Error: 8024402F" On further investigation found that dansguardian was denying the connection to the cab file because the word "babe" was in the URL: # the following was all on...
Excel 2003 opens workbooks very slow across the network
Just had a situation where a user couldn't open a 9MB excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet had heaps of formulas and links. When opening Excel sat there with (Not Responding) in the Title Bar. Attempted a few things in an attempt to fault find the problem: Tried...
Linux MTU Discovery
I keep having to Google how to discover the correct MTU for a link so I'm going to blog about it to save the effort. The command to test for the MTU in Linux is: ping -M do -s <bytes> <ip address> First a succesful MTU test ping: ping -M do -s 1372...
Installing Google Chromium Browser in Fedora 15
This is what I did (you need to have wget installed first. i.e su -c "yum install wget") # as root do the following cd /etc/yum.repos.d wget -nd http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-chromium-stable.repo yum update yum install chromium
Getting Around the Annoying Page Contains Secure and Un-Secure Content Warnings
If you develop a HTML page and source (SRC=) some images or scripts using a "http://" prefixed URL and then try and convert the site to run securely using https a lot of browsers will rightly complain that you are trying to serve encrypted and un-encrypted content....