A recent installation of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i had been locked down to restrict access to the user interface. To further complications, this lockdown was enforced with the McAfee edPolicy Orchestrator. By design, McAfee Virusscan cannot be disabled through task manager, services, or direct registry access; the result will be permission denied. Even if McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i is somehow…
Read More »Many Linux distributions permit the use of the root user as a primary login, however, the dominant and popular Ubuntu has left some users in a conundrum. In order to perform tasks as a root user, this must be performed within a terminal window with the sudo command. However, here are a set of instructions that will allow the root…
Read More »On several different machines, each running Windows, the right-click to create a new text document option is not available. I don’t know if it is a service pack related issue or version of Windows or an application that was installed that caused this annoyance. I am leaning against it being the cause of the operating system as one system is…
Read More »A useful WordPress plugin is WP-PostViews. This plugin enables the display of number of times a post or page had been viewed. However, it there is an odd behavior when handling special characters. According to one definition, HTML special characters and symbols that cannot be generated in HTML with normal keyboard commands may be produced using HTML entities and/or ISO…
Read More »Each time an email is to be sent, the default email opens as Outlook Express, where an alternate application is desired. As in this case, where Yahoo! Mail is the desirable email client. Microsoft Internet Explorer offers no alternative or customization. Yahoo apparently offers the available option through Yahoo Messenger through a custom install with the Yahoo! Browser Services selected….
Read More »It has been asked by many as to the purpose of the code that is added to the header of many modern WordPress themes. This code is to reside just above the of the header. There is very little detail in the reference to this this code online only it’s usage and placement within WordPress. I recently encountered a theme…
Read More »Having setup the Xbox 360 as a media extender to Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center (VMC), I quickly noticed that the dashboard was slightly different and did not have the DVD Library that I had manually setup and is described in an earlier article that I had written. This article is a continuation of my earlier article and describes the…
Read More »Windows Vista as a media center, better known among many as VMC offers promising capabilites. A one-stop place for all your music, television, recorded televsion, videos, pictures, and radio. You can even play DVDs, a manual process. A great feature that must be modified / added manaully is the DVD Library. The DVD Library icon is added to the VMC…
Read More »The Xbox 360 is the only game system that instanly streams movies and television programs from Netflix. This feature is available to Xbox LIVE® Gold members who are also Netflix members and allows them to instantly watch movies streamed from Netflix via Xbox LIVE. According to xbox.com this is an exclusive partnership and the Xbox 360 will be the only…
Read More »A Microsoft Windows XP workstation was presented with the STOP: (parameter, parameter, parameter, parameter) SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED blue screen message on boot. Microsoft does address this STOP message, however, for earlier versions of Windows. Microsoft suggests that the problem might be with a device driver. With that in mind, and knowing that no additional hardware had been added in recent memory, the…
Read More »There are many great WordPress plugins and Search Unleashed is no exception. It serves as a great replacement to the built-in WordPress search engine. Search Unleashed extends the standard search with a full text search across posts, pages, comments, authors, and meta-data. It even offers modules that support other plugins including NextGEN Gallery. The reason anyone should want to upgrade…
Read More »I had written a script that worked on one machine but not another Linux installation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The script returned an error with “bad interpreter: No such file or directory” and referenced the first line of code. I could not visually see the error as it looked to be like any other script. The problem turns out…
Read More »A recent installation of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 went rather smoothly until the requirement to activate in order to complete the installation. The activation window presented itself with a nasty error, “Volume activation has failed” Description: DNS Server Failure and to contact the system administrator with error code 0x8007232A. After some research the resolution was found in a forum that…
Read More »Diskeeper 2009 (Build 13.0.835.0) has officially been released. We received notice in the morning of November 28, 2008 from Diskeeper, that as part of our maintenance plan, we may commence downloading. As part of this release, Diskeeper offers several updates and new features to their product. Having only tested it for a couple of days, I have not drawn any…
Read More »A situation developed where two independent installations of JIRA needed to be combined into a single installation. The problem, however, is no native built-in capabilities to allow for this. This would not be such a simple task, however, someone developed a process to achieve this goal. Still not a simple task. This process has not been updated in a while,…
Read More »In earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook, users could right-click an Outlook desktop icon and then click Properties, allowing them to create e-mail accounts, change profiles, and so on. Problem So that Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 complies with Microsoft Windows XP certification requirements, the desktop icon is not installed with Outlook. Users can access the Properties option by clicking Start and…
Read More »There is a need to replace a value from within a text based file from one variable to another using a command line approach, as everything else in that process was automated. There is however, no native command line support within the Microsoft Windows environment that would allow for this to be accomplished. Someone in the Microsoft forums had written,…
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