Not nerds, definintely not nerdy! :)
I’ve been noticing recently that there have been a large number of playback issues on systems with youtube. I first noticed this in Linux, but I’ve seen it on many other PCs.
The fix is simple, right click on any playing video, go to Flash Player Settings and deselect “enable hardware acceleration”. Click close and refresh the page. Voila.
I’ve been busy trying to sort a new Win X64 image out and just hit yet another wall with ImageX and DISM. For some strange reason it DISM thought the image called ARG1.wim was in a remountable state even though it had been unmounted fine previously and replaced with a new version.
After seeking info from the net and failing apart from running dism /cleanup-wim which is only useful for images in a corrupt state, I tried the ye old simple trick of renaming the image to ARG12.wim and lo and behold, no issues.
Microsoft, from the bottom of my heart…. I hate you!
As many of my friends know, I’m very much a Linux enthusiast and have spent much of my time publicly speaking out and saying how amazing it is and the price tag hat comes with it.
Over the past year or two I’ve really been flitting between different variants of the Debian distro. It’s not that I don’t like Redhat style, or Suse’s; I just prefer the DEB package management. I’ve spent a bit of time hanging out with the Ubuntu crowd. Although they have been helpful there are also a lot of muppets that you have to deal with. Not only that, what the Hell has Unity done with their interface? I love the command line so no biggy in some respects, but gees boys, fix it.
I moved on and then went with Linux Mint. This took Ubuntu and effectively gave us blistering beauty all over with the lovely Gnome 2. This was my default distro for quite some time until I hit the “I need to sort a server out” wall and then I grabbed the ever reliable and rock solid Debian Stable. After running this on the server I noticed something… it’s a Hell of a lot faster than Ubuntu or even Linux Mint.
So I installed Debian Stable for Desktop, 6.0.3. Combining it with Debian-Multimedia repo, it’s got to be still the fastest and purest distro going. Why did I ever leave!?
if your having trouble archive off users mailboxes, give your self full as permission with the command ‘Add-MailBoxPermission “USER” -User “TRUSTED USER” -AccessRights FullAccess’ inside a microsoft exchange management shell running as administrator, and then run the command ‘export-mailbox -identity “USER” -pstfolderpath c:\temp -confirm:$false’ this will move the users .PST(mailbox) to the c:/temp folder.
After days of struggling to get Lion to integrate correctly with a Windows AD, I’ve finally come to the conclussion:
APPLE – YOU SCREWED UP!
Can’t get it to go green for sign in after following absolutely all of the help and suggestions as well as Apple support docs. This is from 7-7.2.
So if you’re in the UK and you need something gift orientated, give http://sjpcrafts.co.uk a look up. They custom make gift boxes, bracelets, neclaces and the alike.
Something that has driven me mad since Vista was introduced is the issue of going to a home folder share such as:
\\server\home\
and seeing a list of DOCUMENTS, DOCUMENTS, DOCUMENTS, etc, rather than George, Sarah, Zippy.
The fix, do in to these folders and delete the desktop.ini file (it’s a hidden system file so you’ll need to enable seeing these in Explorer view settings). Et voila, fixed.
Recently a new company merged in with my current one and all they brought with them was Macs. I’m already a linux geek so getting to grips with the funky Macs wasn’t too stressful as I just dropped to a Bash shell and played away at that level. It scares the Hell out of Mac users who are always so used to shiny GUI things.
Anyway, one of the big gripes was that since they moved in and started using the Exchange server, all their externals mails turned to plain text. I checked in the spam filtering company and they didn’t make changes to the headers of the emails. Internally, HTML mail worked fine between users. It was driving me mad.
After some serious google searching I came across RisualBlogs.com and they mentioned that a send connector was set to ContentType=MimeText and not MimeHtmlText.
get-remotedomain | set-remotedomain -ContentType MimeHtmlText
Tada! Fixed. Thanks guys!
If you are running a BESx server on a Windows 2008 box, you may run in to a 404 error and it not work at all. The quick fix is usually because of Java and you need to regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BAS-AS\Parameters\JVM Option Number 3
Change from “-Xmx1024m” to “-Xmx768m”.
Reboot and cross your fingers.
There are times when you think to your self “Why the Hell Windows, just, WHY!?”
This is generally when you realise that something so simple is causing the server to behave completely erratically but you can’t put your finger on it. In this case, I have a HP DL385 quad core, 8Gb of ram running Exchange. I thought initially that install the BESx software on the server killed its speed. It still functioned, just ridiculously slowly.
It came to a head tonight when I had to patch it and it ground to a halt. It’s soooo sloow. I started researching what could cause it. Everyone did the usual posts of reboot in to safemode, is it quick then, did you do this patch, that registry edit. I thought I’d start with the basics and actually disable the services I don’t need/want.
Off went DHCP client (it’s a fixed IP server), next went the HP Smart Array SAS/SATA Event Notification Service and voila! All of a sudden, the OS starts performing correctly and at full speed!
Thanks HP, yet another service from you guys that breaks your hardware!