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. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SYSTEM [...]

I wanted to see if I had any failed drives on my HP-UX software raid mirrors. The command to use is. vgdisplay -v To narrow it down you can use vgdisplay -v |grep -i “LV Status” You should see a result of available/syncd if things are okay. available/stale means you got an issue.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By default, Microsoft Outlook does not allow pictures in emails to automatically download. To enable pictures to automatically display, do the following in Outlook. 1) Tools Menu. 2) Select Trust Center. 3) Left hand pane select automatic download. 4) Uncheck Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items. 5) Click Ok.

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. Backing up, and restoring, is EASY. To this [...]

There have been times where you will install a program, and it will work for days, weeks, without problems. The one day when you need to get into it, you get a pop up that says “A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a [...]

There are dozens of ways your machines can get infected by spyware, bogging down your machine tremendously. There are even ones that will hijack your browser, prevent you from going to certain sites such as anti-spyware sites, or redirect any links you click to a particular page. The trickiest ones to new users are those [...]