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If you try to install Windows XP under VMWare GSX Server, it will not work by default. The Windows install kicks back saying it is unable to detect any hard drives. This is because VMWare emulates SCSI drives which XP doesn’t have drivers for by default. Luckily it is very easy to get around this…
If you happen to be involved in the downloading of videos off the net, you probably have CCCP. If you don’t have it, get it, you’ll thank me later (not technically true, but perhaps you will remember me telling you to get it). The problem at hand today was that while I have a rather…
I run Outlook 2007 on multiple machines, and one of them (my laptop) has been giving me shit about attachments. Every time I try to save one, it pop’s the message “Cannot save the attachment” or “The operation failed” or a similarly useless message. I’ve read a lot of different suggestions including turning off your…
Strangest thing ever, I downloaded and tried to install an OpenType Font (.otf) and when I double clicked to preview the font I got the message “The requested file XXX.otf was not a valid font file”. When I tried to install it, I got “Unable to install the XXX (OpenType) font. The font file may…
So I was just re-installing a machine (Windows XP SP3 x32) in the office and I got to the point of setting up the OpenVPN connection (so I was almost done). Problem was that when I installed OpenVPN 2.0.9 and executed the EXE, it crashed with “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b).”. I tried…
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For those that follow the techy ways, you’ve probably heard that Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn) was released to manufacturers. This also means it hit MSDN and in my grubby paws a few hours later. I find the best way to learn an OS is to install it on the laptop I use every day….