How often do you get someone say "I have a file that is 10MB+, can I send it to you via email?" and it's over the size that you or your email provider can accept. You don't want to try and teach them how to zip a file into smaller chunks or burn to CD and send via...
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Windows 2003 SBS Server – Multiple Faxes Pending and Not Sent
Just had a situation where I had to send 29 faxes from a Windows XP Pro SP2 box to a Windows 2003 SBS server. So I did the following: Scanned the item I need to fax to 300dpi tiff format. Import the names / address / fax details from an Excel spreadsheet into Outlook...
KixTart – Finding out if a user is admin
There is supposed to a macro @PRIV that will return if the user running the kixtart script is an admin or not. However if you have given yourself local Administration priveleges by adding a domain group you are a member of to the local Administrators Group then @PRIV...
Cygwin Telnet Client
For some weird reason when attempting to run the Windows version of telnet under Cygwin it returns to a prompt without connecting. So you need to install the Cygwin Package that contains a telnet client which is: inetutils Run the cygwin setup.exe and choose...
wxWidgets using wxPerl and wxGlade
When it comes to getting user input and performing an action in a Windows environment there are several convenient options: You can purchase a Microsoft development environment for several thousand dollars such as Visual Studio (or whatever is the latest name for it)....
Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Port 1812 Error
When installing SEPM it complains of port 1812 being in use and the word Enforcer. If you check c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services you will find port 1812 is the Radius port. The Microsoft term for a Radius Server is Internet Authentication Service (IAS)....
Enable Windows Remote Desktop Remotely
If you have ever installed a server, then gone offsite and tried to connect using "Remote Desktop Connection" (mstsc.exe) and found it not responding because you forgot to allow for Remote Connections... you may have had an arrrgggh moment. Here's how to enable it...
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...
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...