If your printer in Windows Server keeps going offline even if its status says ‘Ready‘ and you know its online try disabling SNMP on the Server. Right click the printer and choose Properties. Under the Ports tab click Configure Port… and uncheck SNMP Status Enabled.
Month: October 2010
Printers and Faxes freezing in Server 2003 SBS
I couldn’t print to a network printer shared through Server 2003 SBS. I tried restarting the Print Spooler on the Server but that ended up freezing the Printers and Faxes window. I tried clearing out the print queue by emptying the following folder: %SystemRoot%\System32\Spool\Printers You will have to stop the Print Spooler to delete…
Silverlight in Ubuntu 10.04
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS already has it in the repository. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install libmoon moonlight-plugin-mozilla moonlight-plugin-core or you can go to their website http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ and install the Chrome extension or Firefox plug-in. You’ll need to restart your browser for…
Converted to WordPress
Just switched to WordPress. Gives me a lot more options and flexibility with the site.
TortoiseSVN and Error 403 Forbidden
A client of mine was using TortoiseSVN and was having difficulty committing a change to the repository. Below is a similar error message to the one he was getting. svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: MKACTIVITY of ‘/foobar/!svn/act/1f177b34-1601-0010-84ad-c180bd3a7ab5′: 403 Forbidden (http:/svn.foobar.com) The issue is that Windows is case INSENSITIVE but SVN is case SENSITIVE….
Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 BSOD on Resume
I have Windows 7 x64 and a 1.5TB hard drive. Whenever my PC was resuming from standby I would get a BSOD. I initially thought it was a driver issue but I came across this KB article. “You receive various Stop error messages in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 when you try…
Connecting to a Windows PPTP VPN from Ubuntu 10.04
If you’d like to connect to a Windows PPTP VPN here is a howto to make it happen. You need to have Ubuntu 10.04 if not you need to apt-get some packages that are not installed by default. Click ‘System’ -> ‘Preferences’ -> ‘Network Connections’ Click the ‘VPN’ tab Leave ‘Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)’ selected…
Slow iPod / iPhone / iPad sync times
My iPad was taking upwards of 45 – 75 minutes to do a complete sync. I found a utility that disables the backup portion of the sync which speeds it up significantly. http://www.digidna.net/products/backoff The utility works for all ios devices.
Disable Password Lock on Exchange 2007 for iPhone Users
If you have an iPhone with OS 3.0 or greater and Exchange 2007 it will require you to enable a PIN on your device by default. To disable this you need to… Open the Exchange Management Console Expand the Organization Configuration Click on Client Access Double click your Activesync Mailbox Policy Click the Password tab…