I have been having issues with my keyboard for as long as I can remember. The Shift, Control, Windows, and Alt keys were not functioning properly at all and were becoming quite the annoyance. It seemed as if while held down, the keys were randomly toggling themselves on and off while I pressed [...]
I was setting up some Ubuntu virtual machines for folding when I decided that I wanted to monitor them all via a single interface in Windows using FahMon. I also wanted to be able to alter the folder where the folding client resides in case I ever have to do a little maintenance. [...]
I recently tried installing Ubuntu x64 in VMware on my 32-bit Windows machine. I have done this in the past for other 64-bit operating systems, however not on this particular workstation, which is an HP xw4600. The process is typically very straightforward since VMWare has a “Easy Install” process for known operating systems.
This [...]
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I have three pieces of information to share with those of you looking to enable RAID on your Windows PC after having installed Windows without RAID enabled in your BIOS settings. Now that you have rebooted past a handful of blue screens and [...]
Awhile back, I posted a guide detailing how you can configure CopSSH on your home computer and use it to securely route your Windows Remote Desktop traffic in order to add an extra layer of security to the whole process.
Typically, once Putty was configured and used to create the SSH tunnel to the remote machine, [...]
A friend of mine was recently having issues using Microsoft’s Terminal Services Remote Web Access. It seems that when he tried to remotely administer any workstations he had upgraded to Windows XP SP3 or servers he had upgraded to SBS 2003 SP1, he would receive an error stating that an “Invalid Server Name” had been [...]
I had a strange problem with Putty when connecting to a Linux server that I work on occasionally. At random times, the line I was typing would wrap around on the same line in crazy fashion, overwriting what I had already typed. Aside from being generally annoying, it caused plenty of headaches when [...]
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If you are having a hard time getting your Xbox 360 DVD drive to open and close, odds are the drive belt is the problem. It seems that due to heat and general usage, the drive belt that is responsible for opening and closing the drive will stretch or accumulate enough dirt that it starts [...]
On occasion, when installing Adobe Acrobat 9 (as well as some other versions) the application will fail to install the “Adobe PDF” printer that typically resides in your Printers and Faxes folder in Windows XP. This not only prevents Acrobat from creating any PDF files, but it also breaks the PDFMaker plugin functionality that gets [...]
