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Backup firefox bookmarks

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 within [...]

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How to remove Spyware

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 [...]

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How to launch Outlook with a different account

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 [...]

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Easy To Use Free Open Source FTP Client

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 [...]

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Great Free Open Source Monitoring

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 – http://www.netxms.org/
Spiceworks – http://www.spiceworks.com
Network monitoring
Ntop – [...]

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Joomla SEF404 not working

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 that in your [...]

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SQL 2005: The specified ‘@subsystem’ is invalid (Error 14234)

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!

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Tomcat will not run

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.

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Trend Micro Officescan will not start in safe mode

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 VSCANWIN32. [...]

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ArcGIS Unable to locate source Error 1706

In particular I am speaking of ArcGIS 9.2. It was originally installed from a network location on to the workstation. We wanted to modify the installation to add .NET support. Usually this is done by Add/Remove programs in control panel or running the installer. When we did the Add/Remove programs and then chose .NET support, [...]

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