Month: August 2014

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Event ID 2017 Fills the System Logs

Event ID 2017 is “The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.” This identified on a Windows 7 workstation. The resolution is a couple of registry changes. Here is a screenshot of the System log file filtered for Event ID 2017. Here is the fix. Source(s)…

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Radio Shack EC-4019 Calculator Problem and Solution

The Radio Shack EC-4019 is a great calculator. I have had it since the late 1980s since it was new. It has worked flawlessly up until about 2012, when a new battery was needed. Yup, it took over 20 years to finally have the need to replace the battery. Not to suggest that it is being used on a daily…

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Configure a Public Share with Samba on Centos 7 Linux

A CentOS7 Linux server was used to create Samba shares so that Windows clients of a home network may back up their stuff, resulting in one share with read write access. The ultimate goal was to create a Samba share that would act as if it were one of those off-the-shelf “solutions” like a Buffalo Linkstation, where no user password…

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