A client of mine is using Quickbooks 2009 and has been having issues with accessing Quickbook files hosted on the Quickbooks database server. All firewall ports are open, the database server is running and the Quickbooks Connection Diagnostic Tool says everything passes. They access the files from a mapped drive to the server. It’s never…
Outlook 2010: “0x8004010F: Outlook data file cannot be accessed”
A client of mine was having the error 0x8004010F in Outlook 2010. I repaired the PST and it fixed 30 or so errors but I was still having the issue. I ended up creating a new Outlook profile using the following link… http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2289904 After creating the new profile I could not open or export the…
Outlook 2010 prompting for UAC everytime it’s opened
If Outlook 2010 is prompting for UAC everytime you open it check to make sure you don’t have Run this program in compatibility mode for: or Run this program as an administrator checked.
Speed up Outlook 2007
If Outlook 2007 has been running slower then usual you can try disabling Add-ins that are not being used. To do this Open up the Trust Center by navigating to Tools –> Trust Center on the menu. On the left-hand pane, choose Add-ins, and then near the bottom of the window you’ll see a button…
Fixing Full Screen Flash in Ubuntu 10.10
If you have Ubuntu 10.10, Intel Graphics and can’t view full screen flash videos from Youtube, Hulu, or any other site this fix might help… sudo mkdir /etc/adobe sudo su sudo echo \”OverrideGPUValidation = 1\” >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
Printer goes offline after successful print job
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.
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….