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Event ID 7022 – The Kerberos Key Distribution Center service hung on starting.
I have been tinkering with a SBS 2003 box that has been restored from backup. One of the annoying things I have come up against was that it wouldn't reboot quickly enough and a "service or hardware" failed to start popup would be there when it finally arrived back at...
Virtual Desktops or Workspaces on Windows XP
If you use Windows XP at work, but Linux at home, you may be missing the multiple desktops feature that Linux provides . http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ is the answer. I don't use the "group similar taskbar buttons" Windows XP feature but find multiple workspaces a...
crontabs/username: Permission denied
I just had an issue where I tried to issue crontab -e as a user and got crontabs/username: Permission denied The problem was traced to deleting an old account that had a crontab then recreating the account later which had a different user id. Note here how the...
Using Youtube for doing product research
I have been thinking about getting a micro sized Linux desktop / laptop machine. I hate buying something without getting a 3rd opinion from someone who has used it. On Youtube you can get user and industry trade reviews. When I was looking at the Asus EeePC there was...
Reading a Paradox DB Under Windows using XAMPP
If you want to do this get an old version of XAMPP Update: New versions of XAMPP for Windows don't have the PHP paradox module. The latest I could find that contained the necessary php/ext/php_paradox.dll file was XAMPP for Windows 1.7.0 Windows (XP) provides a...
I counted my chickens, I have four of them
OK after much work I have created a chicken coop and run and today we got delivery of four lovely ladies to inhabit them. They are "Layer Pullets" so they are about 6 weeks away from laying eggs. I got them through Brian Larkin Poultry ((02) 4681 9722) who sells them...