A user has a laptop with one VGA connection which is currently connected to an external monitor. The user wanted to add another external monitor to the equation. The laptop is neatly tucked away and hidden from sight, so the use of the laptop screen is not an option. The docking station that compliments this laptop does not offer support…
Read More »A Toshiba laptop running Microsoft Windows 7 with an AMD processor had been working without issue. After updating several drivers, a Runtime Error! message box presented itself upon each reboot, regardless of the power source. More specifically, a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error box for the program C:\Windows\system32\atibtmon.exe. It turns out that the error is a result of a…
Read More »A Hewlett Packard HP DL380 G3 server running Windows 2003 needed support for USB 2.0 to transfer files from the server to an external hard drive as a backup. There didn’t seem to be any definitive answer or resolution to this after several hours of Internet searches. After coming across a USB 2.0 adapter card at a reasonable price, it…
Read More »A fresh, vanilla installation of a Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 server without updates was introduced to a test environment. It was added to a workgroup. Client workstations are Microsoft Windows 7. A few shares were created on the server, however, from the workstations, the users were faced with a network error pop-up message. The solution is a simple fix. Basically,…
Read More »I have been running a Microsoft Windows 7 desktop since 2009, in that time and many Microsoft updates later, the C:\windows\winsxs directory has grown to a significant size in proportion to the rest of the hard drive. There is a way to clean this up. Here are screenshots of the before and after cleanup attempt. Note the savings of 4.8…
Read More »On a Windows 7 computer, a Windows Security pop-up warning that These files might be harmful to your computer message appears each time a file is copied from that Windows 7 workstation to a network resource. There is a work-a-round for this that has worked for me, so I thought I would pass it along. Note: Alternately, the Internet Options…
Read More »While in the process of updating a development virtual machine of CentOS 5.6, it became clear that the updates would not update CentOS 5.6 to it’s final release of CentOS 5.9. The traditional yum update approach produced the status of No Packages marked for Update. However, a couple of additional commands produced the desired result of CentOS 5.9. The traditional…
Read More »A little while ago, I wrote an article Convert mAh to mWh and mWh to mAh for Notebook Laptop Batteries that provided the calculations needed to convert from mAh to mWh and vice versa. The intent was to simplify the navigation in researching the purchase of a replacement battery. As many battery manufacturers present different pieces of information which makes…
Read More »Recently there was an encounter with a rootkit. The symptoms, open any of three different web browsers, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox and do a couple of searches, the pages would redirect several times over until finally stopping at one of many different web pages. Since, each browser was effected, it had to be a system wide…
Read More »Google Chrome can simply be defined as an Internet web browser. It offers integrated features such as automatic page language translation making it easier than ever to find information that is not necessarily presented in ones native language. After using Google Chrome for sometime, you may find that you want to change the tabbed homepage from an array of icons…
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After installing CentOS 6.2 i386 minimal ISO as a VMware virtual machine, immediate attempts to perform a yum update failed. The virtual machine network is bridged to the host computer. Pings to the router were successful, however, after some Internet searches, a solution that remediated this situation was found. Before getting to the “fix”. An attempt to change the network…
Read More »It is annoying when the laptop battery becomes less and less useful, where it doesn’t hold the charge it once held. It is even more annoying to try to navigate between all the different sellers using mAh to describe the battery replacement for something that is likely expressed as mWh on your original OEM battery or as determined by the…
Read More »Java has recently put out a patch that certifies ColdFusion 9 to run with Java JDK 1.7.0_15 or newer. After applying the patch, upgrading to Java JDK 1.7.0_21, and manually copying a DLL, this ColdFusion 9.0.1 installation finally runs with Java JDK 7. While your version of ColdFusion may be different, here are the basic steps for ColdFusion 9.0.1 ColdFusion…
Read More »When decompressing a compressed tar file, generally, the approach is to change directory to the root and execute the tar command from there with a full path to the compressed tar. There is an easier method that will remove a line or two of code from each script. Down to a single command line. This is how to use tar…
Read More »This has more applications than with just the chkconfig command. However, I found this script to be useful and wanted to add it to my database of useful scripts. This script will chkconfig off the services listed in the services variable. By changing the off to on, the script will chkconfig on the services listed in the services variable. Here…
Read More »Suppose you wanted to determine the length of time it took to complete the execution of a bash script. Rather than sitting in front of the computer and estimating the time elapsed by watching the script execute with a stopwatch, it can be done with a few lines of code. Near the top of the script add the following variable…
Read More »From the man pages, chkconfig is defined to provide a simple command-line tool for maintaing the /etc/rc[0-6].d directory hierarchy by relieving system administrators of the task of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in those directories. When chkconfig is run without any options, it displays usage information. If only a service name is given, as in the case above, it…
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