I’ve been running my Exchange 2010 OWA site on a non-standard port (default is 443) for a while so that I can run SSL for my personal website (you’re reading it) on the standard port. My server is hosted at home, and I only have 1 public IP, so unless I (re-)installed everything on a …
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We upgraded our VMware infrastructure to v5 back around the time it was released late last summer. Since then I’ve been having an issue where the Storage View feature of vCenter would not load. I would receive a mostly blank screen that has a link to update the Storage View. Clicking that link had 0 …
VMware vCenter Storage View is blank/not updating
I recently installed XBMC on my living room server in order to better supply my 1080p TV with downloaded media. Upon trying to play an MKV x264 movie, I was presented with an all green screen but the video’s proper audio. It turns out that this was caused by enabling hardware acceleration, which was found …
It’s currently 12:17pm EST (16:17 GMT) and Mt. Gox (the most prominent Bitcoin exchange, which last Sunday shut down all trading due to a huge site hack) was supped to resume trading at 11am EST. Currently the site says 15:30 GMT (45 minutes ago) is when trading is to resume, however, that obviously isn’t going …
Upon creating a new user and attempting to login, I received the following error message: "The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded." I’m running Windows 7 x64 SP1. My current setup is: C: drive (SSD) Program Files, Windows, ProgramData. X: drive (HDD) Users, and everything else. I use the Administrator …
While attempting to run a System File Check (sfc /scannow) on a Windows XP machine today I received the error 0x000006ba – The RPC Server is unavailable. I checked the services console and saw that the RPC service was running. After scratching my head for a few minutes, I decided that the SFC component must …
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I was running the WP-DB-Backup plugin for this blog up until recently when it suddenly stopped working. I tried troubleshooting a little bit before I said “screw it, I’ll backup myself”. My solution was to write a script that will create a dump of my MySQL database, add it and my WordPress directory to a …
While working on another post and attempting to insert code, I came across the problem of not being able to insert single lines of code on one line within WordPress. This ends up displaying a confusing, multiple line display of what should only be one line of code. The solution for this was to first …
I had made a previous post a while back about the mouse being choppy while using the VMware console with Server 2008. I stated in that post that as of that writing, there was no fix for 2008 R2. There appears to be a fix now, however. The server I’m running is ESX 4.1.0-348481 (which …
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I’ve just spent the past hour or so fighting a co-worker’s personal computer, trying to get Microsoft Security Essentials to re-install (she had originally installed v1 of MSE, and when the v2 came out not too long ago and it attempted to upgrade, apparently it hosed her antivirus installation). Her machine is running XP SP3 …
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