To anticipate and prevent
Its back to technology again — after all thats why I started this blog. I really wish for that I could find some damned backup software that actually works as it is supposed to, reliably. Right now I have two different pieces of backup software I use. In the local office we have Veritas. Its…
Opps — So I kinda forgot that I had no blog entry for today. Gotta write it fast before time runs out. Actually its just an intresting little bit that I tried today. Was trying to install Office2k3 on a co-workers laptop, but the laptop was an IBM X40 with no internal CD Drive —…
IE 7 — or is it? The other day I finally got around to downloading the IE 7 Beta 2. As soon as I finished installing it, I got called up to do something more important that fart around with crapy MS products — so I didnt get to test it. A few days latter…
One of the servers I am in charge of is running Windows 2000 SP4. I’ve been trying to run windows update and suprise, suprise (not) it doesnt work. Everytime I run the update it tells me its failed — with no error code. I surfed online and did everything I could find and then some….
So a few days ago I changed the GPO (Group Policies) on the domain controller to setup our SMB network for unencrypted communication so that clients like Mac and Linux could get on SMB with the windows machine. Well these changes slowly propagated out to all the machines — only for me to find that…
I know — its scary. I’m trying to get an OS X machine connected and running under our Microsoft AD. I’ve found a number of useful instructions while googling around — but nothing seems to work. I think that its due to encrypted SMB (due to the GPO) but after changing that it still doesn’t…