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Date September 24, 2009 Author By kadmin Category VMware, Windows Server 2008
I installed VMware ESXi 4.0 on my new Dell Poweredge R710 server. I then created a Windows 2008 Server virtual machine and proceed to boot from the installation DVD to install Windows. I was quickly greeted with this error: Status: 0xc000035a Info: Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this cpu is not compatible with […]
Read MoreDate September 22, 2009 Author By kadmin Category General
Dell’s Poweredge servers come with dual Broadcom network cards. It only makes sense that someone might used the included NIC software to set up Teaming. However, as soon as you do this all of the Polycom IP phones on your network will start complaining about duplicate IP addresses. There are two possible work-arounds. 1 – […]
Read MoreDate September 14, 2009 Author By kadmin Category Blackberry, Microsoft Exchange
When setting up a Blackberry Server, you’ll need these components. RIM does not provide them in the Blackberry Server download.
Read MoreDate September 11, 2009 Author By kadmin Category General
Q: I want to send my document outside the company. I want to leave tracked changes in the document, but I don’t want anyone to see who made the tracked changes or when they were made. How do I do that? Before Word 2003, you can’t. The author (or reviewer) information and the date information […]
Read MoreDate August 28, 2009 Author By kadmin Category General, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Ever wanted to block some websites in either of the mainstream browers in Windows without having to purchase filtering software, or mess around with the /etc/hosts file? Refer to http://jaxov.com/2009/08/how-to-block-websites-in-internet-explorer-and-mozilla-firefox/
Read MoreDate August 28, 2009 Author By kadmin Category General
There is a known issue with Linux 2.6 kernel inside of VMWare. Because of a frequency issue with the quartz signal, the system clock runs much slower than it should. The fix for this is to add the following line to the /boot/grub/grub.conf file: clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic Alternatively, you could install VMware Tools on […]
Read MoreDate August 27, 2009 Author By kadmin Category General
First, try this Microsoft article. That didn’t work for me. It turns out that the DNS was pointed to a public ISP server instead of pointing to the domain controller as it should. This was in the event log: Event ID 1053 Source: Userenv Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified domain […]
Read MoreDate August 24, 2009 Author By kadmin Category General
I have seen an extraordinary amount of video card failures in D630 laptops within the past year. It really seems like Dell should have issued a recall. So far all of the laptops have been under warranty but I estimate that over 50% have failed. One recommendation I found is to update to the A12 […]
Read MoreDate August 24, 2009 Author By kadmin Category General, Windows XP
When you install the DR985 USB Bluetooth adapter it does not install the bluetooth item in Control Panel. Without this, you can’t do a search for new devices. After spending a couple hours trying different drivers, the option still never appeared in Control Panel. It seems that it never will. I went to a working […]
Read MoreDate August 18, 2009 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7
Most people don’t notice their hard drive is failing until it starts to click. I just installed Windows 7 on a computer with a failing hard drive to try it out. It warned me during the install that I should replace the drive but I chose to ignore it. Now that the install is complete, […]
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