Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this complaint from the bash shell when trying to remove a bunch of files. In this case, I was trying to clear a directory where log rotating had run amuck and there was a 10 second lag in typing ls ∗.gz and seeing any output…. So, […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Some time back, I was teetering on the brink…. I’ve used Evolution as my linux mail client for ages (since I switched), because it had the calender integrated etc… However, Kontact has REALLY looked nice for some time, but I didn’t have time to mess with changing. Then one day, I was trying to send […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2006
I mentioned this a while back, but I didn’t go into much detail on a long term solution. Let me re-set the situation. Linux server running apache2. It’s Mandrake (now Mandriva) (an older version.) When the system has suffered abrupt outage (power loss). Everything starts up normally with the exception of httpd2. It claims that […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
I ran into strange problems accessing a shared Novell Netware (5.0) folder. Everytime the folder was attempted to be accessed from multiple machines the window would freeze and if you waited long enough, there would be an error message along the lines of “Netware Alert Message”… NIOS.NLM Call to NIOS page unlock by module unknown […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Last week sometime I was doing maintenance on an OLD Windows 95 machine (yes there are some still out there….) and noticed the Antivirus had not updated in a good while. They were using Grisoft’s AVG and so I tried to force an update. I was greeted with an error message… “Cannot Launch AV internet […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Saw this today…. “Error while aging folder “Inbox” in store “Personal Folders”. File access is denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\archive.pst.” It was on an older Outlook 98/Windows 98 system, but it was something that might be applicable to others as well. Basically, this system has two […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
More sites that claim to be windows security center or the like are popping up… a list: securitycaution(dot)com dnserror404(dot)com todaywarnings(dot)com updatesystempage(dot)com yoursecuritysystem(dot)com From sunbeltblog. Send article as PDF
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
The Sunbelt Blog has picked up on a report of some network printing problems with the unofficial WMF exploit patch installed. The first report was on the fulldisclosure list. It is recommended that the patch be tested before rolling out. The variation of software configurations varies by environment… Send article as PDF
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
After several weeks of good behaviour from Evolution 2.4 since the Mandriva 2006 upgrade, I started getting a wierd error on sending messages *(Mail From response Error Unknown). Nothing within my settings for Evolution had changed since the night before when things worked… I tested with Kontact and was able to send mail, closed it, […]
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Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Since there’s been quite a bit of flux the last couple of days I thought I’d try to “reset” the situation and give a general overview of where we stand now with regards to the recent WMF zero-day exploit. 1st there is a vulnerability in the way Windows renders WMF (Windows MetaFile) image files that […]
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