Remote Desktop on Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003 will allow access to a Windows session that is running on another computer from your local computer. However, this feature must be enabled to do so. I recently setup a Windows Server 2003 server and forgot to enable remote access. To enable remote access, you can right click on Computer…
Read More »JBoss logs can take up gigabytes of space. The log rotation works well, however, there is no (not that I could find) means to compress in real-time. However, with a little work, this may be accomplished with a cron job. I am not going to go into too much detail or background, there are many sites that do this well….
Read More »Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (“RHEL”) and / or CentOS 5.x, I wanted to know the size of the existing folder. There is a utility that will summarize disk usage for each file, recursively for directories. It is called du. As it turns out, this utility is also applicable for other distributions of Linux including Ubuntu. This command line…
Read More »Recently attempted to update a Microsoft Windows XP workstation only to encounter an error message, error 0x80240025. According to one forum, it could be that of a Group policy to disable access to the Windows update. Error 0x80240025 denotes a Group Policy setting. If you check the registry for the DisableWindowsUpdateAccess key, you will likely find the following: S-1-5-18 maps…
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