Category: IT

Printers and Faxes freezing in Server 2003 SBS

Posted on by Sean Young

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

Posted on by Sean Young

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…

TortoiseSVN and Error 403 Forbidden

Posted on by Sean Young

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….

Connecting to a Windows PPTP VPN from Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on by Sean Young

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…