Archive for November, 2005
Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Finally figured out how to get the Free ZoneAlarm product to stop asking for reboots after a botched upgrade. Answer to the issue was at this site. Basically, I had to uninstall, boot into safe mode, rename a bunch of files (vsconfig.xml, vsdata.dll, vsdata95.vxd, vsdatant.sys, vsmon.*, vsmonapi.dll, vsnetutils.dll, vspubapi.dll, zaplus.*, ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Had an application of Knoppix that kept giving me errors on the ethernet. It was on a Tohshiba Satellite laptop, model 2065SCDS. Everytime I tried to bring up the interface (PCMCIA) it would tell me the device was busy (actual error : "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy"). I tried a ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
While (finally) researching some spyware issues for a friend, I came across an excellent site for listing what processes are and what they are related to - with respect to Windows. Its called ProcessLibrary and its quite informative.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Installed new wireless device to replace my dead WAP54A device. Now I have a WRT55AG that I got from www.hpshopping.com because they had 30-50 dollars cheapear than anywhere else. Im not using the router/firewall functions, so its really just an access point for me.
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
Installed additional fan in tape array to help keep it from overheating and brought it back online. Also installed RedHat Linux tools for Compaq servers from HP site. After extracting the zip file, just run the install.sh script to launch a nice gui installer. Then run "cpuacqxe --enable-remote" to configure ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Had to clean out BB histlogs directory which can grow to be enourmous if unchecked. In this installation of BB I dont do much with archive or availability reporting, so it was ok to remove the logs older than say 2 years. So a new cron job was setup for ...
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
Built the new (virgin, never used) DL580 Quad PIII Xeon 700Mhz server as a new VMWare GSX 3.2 Server. Its running Windows 2003 Volume Server Edition, and VMWare GSX 3.2 release. Server has 2Gb RAM and 2 9.1 GB disks in the array. Right now its just an OS and ...
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Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Finally got the webcam and started setting it up on what was going to be the media pc. Now its just sitting in the basement with this new webcam on it, watching the interior french drain and sump pump. The idea is that an alert will trip when the pump ...
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
For the castor 18Gb problem - the drive was totally dead - recognized at startup, but bad blocks prevented reads. So the drive was removed. It contained my group share, my software depot, and some archives - they are all gone now. New disk, and will need to recover whatever ...
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