Illegal File Name – Compact Flash card
When taking pictures my Nikon D90‘s display had flashed that the card needed to be formatted “frm”. I’ve seen this before and simply power off the camera, then reset the card and all is well. I […]
Apple Safari for Windows
I’ve been tired of the constant iTunes updates for some time. DRM updates, iPhone updates, more iPhone updates, Quicktime (iTime?), iWank, iShank, iSpank… 40megs, 60megs, 80megs, reboots… oh and actual updates for iTunes. So when I […]
The Vista
“The Vista” So I was talking to HR Block Tax Cut Business tech support (i.e. a nice lady with some docs to read from) because their product refuses to launch for me “you must have Internet […]
ITMU 3 – deploying patches with SMS 2003 SP3
Patch process using ITMU v3 and SMS 2003 I’m patching end user clients only (no servers) only and this process accommodates a business requirement to patch machines but not force a reboot for 4 days. Install patches […]
ColdFusion 8 Data Source with MS SQL Express 2005
After upgrading my development system from ColdFusion MX and MS SQL 2000 to ColdFusion 8 and MS SQL Express 2005 I was getting the dreaded SQLServer JDBC Driver errors. The fix is in the Adobe link […]
Community Server + SQL 2005 Express
As someone who benefits greatly from the myITforum community and the Blogs therein I was interested in the blogging software – Community Server Having recently setup a personal learning lab 2003 SP2 test server with DNS, […]
Drunken Lemurs
What can I say that this doesn’t?
Wireless Routers – oh the joy
Finally dumped my Netgear WGT624 v2 Wireless Firewall Router today. Since purchasing based on excellent reviews we had had issues with dropped connections and with machines returning from sleep mode being unable to connect. Talks with […]
Microsoft BDD 2007
Notes to self as I navigate the Microsoft BDD 2007 Process Trying to build a Reference image I ran into the Red Screen of Death on boot after building a Lite Touch image for Capture. Building […]
Windows Photo Gallery – Color Issue
Do your photos display with an odd brownish orange tint in Vista’s WPG – Windows Photo Gallery but look fine in any other program? Yeah me too. The issue appears to be the default ICC Color […]