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 [...]

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 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 [...]

We all know Microsoft Outlook only allows a single Microsoft Exchange account per windows profile.  Of course, you can add additional mailboxes to an account, but that requires additional work and then you have to manually open the calendar. You can also open a mailbox through your existing running Outlook, IF, and only IF your [...]

There are TONS of FTP clients you can choose to use. In the late 90′s almost everyone had a copy of CuteFTP. There are still alot of popular ones out there, both commercial and free. I’m not the one to dish out $40 for a copy of something I can get for free, so I [...]

Here are some GREAT tools to monitor your enterprise network. You probably have heard about many of these, but there are a few that may be new to you. I’ll have a write up with detailed review later on. Service / Devices Nagios – http://www.nagios.com HyperIC – http://www.hyperic.com GroundWork – http://www.groundworkopensource.com/ Zabbix – http://www.zabbix.com/ NetXMS [...]

After enabling you notice you receive 404 component not found. The fix, ensure under global settings you have Search engine Friendly URLs enabled. Then, ensure your .htaccess is okay. If you have joomla installed in a subfolder, make sure the rewrite base is correct. The fix that worked for me after all of this, was [...]

SQL SERVER 2005. Trying to create a maintenance plan and a backup job only to find you run into this error. What is it? You need to install integration services… then bam!

I installed Tomcat 5.5. from the MSI package on my Windows 2003 32bit server. Tried running the service with no luck. The Tomcat log showed that “failed creating java c:\program files\java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll.” So what fixed it? I had to copy the MSVCR71.DLL into my c:\windows\system32 directory. This DLL was included with Tomcat also.

If you try running the Trend Micro client in safe mode, you will get errors saying the service isn’t running, or the listener isn’t running. To use Trend Micro OfficeScan in safe mode, you will have to use command lined based scanning. So open a command prompt, navigate to your trend micro folder and run [...]