Subversion is an open-source version control system. It is used in production by many companies. There are other software products such as Collabnet that utilize this with it’s own features. It is supposed on windows, unix, and mac os x. Today we’re going to install Subversion on a windows environment. [Read More]
I’m sure there have been many times where you wanted to insert a line in an excel spreadsheet. In Word you were used to using shift+enter to give you a once space line. For excel it is different. [Read More]
I wanted to see if I had any failed drives on my HP-UX software raid mirrors. The command to use is. [Read More]
The infamous blue screen of death (BSOD) is what appears when you turn on your computer. Immediately you suspect a hard drive failure or data loss. This is not necessarily true. Remember, a BSOD is given by windows. So it must have at least read the hard drive to get the BSOD to show. So what do we do to try and fix this error. [Read More]
If you’re a nerd, you are familiar with Symantec Ghost. There is a product out there that everything and more. PING. This software is a bootable Linux OS, and allows you to backup and restore partitions. You can do this locally, or from a network share. PXE and RIS environments are supported. Don’t worry if your hard drive is large. CD and DVD disk spanning is supported. [Read More]
Today I had to figure out what domain groups a user was a part of. I had to find out if a particular user was part of a specific domain group or not, so that I could verify if that group was part of the server’s local administrators group. And if it wasn’t, then I would add that user specifically. Yeah I could explicitly list the user regardless, but I was looking for neatness and not redundancy of privileges. I didn’t have access to the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC so I need another way. [Read More]
Windows Server comes with Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration enabled by default for both users and administrators. It is annoying. Its purpose is to prevent scripts and certain content to decrease server threat. But having this enabled, you may see some web sites that fail to load. I personally disable this, because I don’t use my servers to browse the web. Well, I do, but only for testing say a web server on the local server. [Read More]
When you delete files in Windows XP, they go to the recycling bin. So are they really deleted? No, technically they are just moved. It’s kind of like a get me out of jail free card. So if you accidentally deleted a file that you needed, you can get it back. Of course, once you right click on the recycling bin and empty it, it’s gone… There are means to get files that have been emptied from the recycling bin back, but that’s a whole different discussion. So how do you actually delete files without dealing with the recycling bin? [Read More]
By default, Microsoft Outlook does not allow pictures in emails to automatically download. To enable pictures to automatically display, do the following in Outlook. [Read More]
So you’re upgrading your computer, and you want to backup your Firefox backups. That, or you just want to back them up because you’ve had them for 4 years on the same computer and if you lose it, you lose all 4 years of your online life. [Read More]
