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IT related tech tips since 2006Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud – NIS.exe High CPU on Windows XP SP3 VMWare VMs
Just discovered that one of the patches I installed today on my VMWare hosts fixed an issue I had after installing Symantec Endpoint Protection for Small Business Cloud Hosted Edition The old ESXi build was 106549 the new one is 3872664 ( vSphere 5.1 3b ) I don't know...
Dell iDRAC 6 – SEC_ERROR_REUSED_ISSUER_AND_SERIAL Firefox Error
Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to 172.16.98.XXX. You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information: Your certificate contains the same serial...
nginx suddenly can’t proxy to non-standard ports – Boolean SeLinux
I did an upgrade recently and suddenly nginx wasn't forwarding requests to remote hosts on non-standard ports.... this was on a CentOS host which had seLinux enabled. Turn seLinux off temporarily setenforce 0 Does nginx now work proxying to non-standard ports? Turn it...
Fixed: Second Windows App Runing under Wine 1.8.1 on OSX 10.11.4 Won’t Accept Keyboard Input
I have two wine apps I typically use. If I launch both of them then I can't enter anything into the form fields of either. To fix this I have ran winecfg and unchecked the "Allow the window manager to control the windows" option on the Graphics tab of Wine...
IE11 Wonky Bootstrap Rendering
Problem: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 Professional renders a bootstrap website with form controls in the wrong place and the layout is corrupt Cause: Internet Explorer 11 has been configured to display legacy banking website with ancient IE8 settings...
CakePHP 2 Slightly Better Looking than Default Pagination
Just trying to make my pagination in CakePHP 2 better looking. I added the first and last links but still had a radius on my previous and next links which looked odd and my 'last >>' link had a square end too. So a bit ugly really. Following is an example of...
Welcome to the Internet Helpdesk
On one of my client sites they have a Telstra Internet connection. An Exchange server sits on the network and forwards mail out to the Telstra Smarthost smtp.telstrabusiness.com. After an update to a Dansguardian proxy server and the subsequent failure of clamd to...
Gaining Access to A Windows Computer when you don’t know the Password
"The trust relationship with this workstation and the primary domain has failed" This error message isn't a big problem when you still have the local computers administrative usernames and login passwords. You just change your login details from...
Bootstrap CakePHP 3 Bootstrap-ui
In my learnings for make self glorious user of Twitter Bootstrap I have been looking at https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/bootstrap-ui I'm using https://github.com/jmcd73/cakephp3-ajax-samples as a place to stash my code so I don't blow my laptop away and then lose it...