This post was written before McAfee wrongly identified svchost.exe as a virus and caused many large businesses to close their doors while the problem was resolved: Fixing a laptop for a friend gratis Has some sort of malicious application known as "Security Tool"...
Organisations of a certain size employ IT people and harness them into a role. Those people take on the mantel of the role, learning whatever script that has been put before them. As long as the problem doesn't deviate from the script then they effectively resolve...
I have an old Compaq nx7000 work laptop that I have Ubuntu on. Just ran: sudo do-release-upgrade -d # It's before the official release date of Ubuntu 10.04 so I ran with the -d switch # -d, --devel-release Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is # possible...
Problem: Event Type: Warning Event Source: SQLAgent$SBSMONITORING Event Category: Job Engine Event ID: 208 Date: 13/04/2010 Time: 3:00:00 AM User: N/A Computer: APF-MA-DC01 Description: SQL Server Scheduled Job 'SBS_Database_Cleanup'...
Sarg is a Squid Report Generator that scans your Squid logs and generates html reports that are available via a web page. I have used sarg for years on Redhatian boxes with no troubles. My issues started when I moved to Ubuntu as my Squid Proxy. No Daily, Weekly or...
Was just looking in my Gallery and found an image with a broken thumbnail. Broken thumbnails seem to be a semi-regular occurence. Normally if this happens I can use the Gallery 2.x photo edit functionality and; rotate the photo back and forth and the thumbnail...
If you edit the cache_mgr value in /etc/squid/squid.conf you can set an email address which will appear as the contact point in any error messages that Squid returns to it's browser clients. However this doesn't allow you to have different link text that is displayed...
Update: Found this on the Google forums. When you see the grey screen when trying to view PDF on Linux Chrome. Hit CTRL-S and you can save it to disk and view it from there. It's beginning to look like Google Chrome for Linux is dead in the water as regards getting...
Running tar for Windows, using this command: c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe -xzvf filename.tar.gz gives the following error c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe: Cannot fork: Function not implemented c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe: Error is not...
If you are an IT person and you are employed by a Manufacturing company, it is probable that your IT umbrella covers at least some sort of control system/s. Controls Systems or SCADA, as they are called in the industry frequently have components installed in hostile...