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McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool
Sometimes McAfee products causes more grief than joy. For some mysterious reason, some, if not all, McAfee products interfer with the handling of VBScript as they register their own .dll file for handling VBScript. Not all attempts at manually correcting the Windows Registry prove successful. In most cases McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool are able […]
Read More → McAfee Consumer Product Removal toolResetting a deactivated iPhone 4
A colleague had been given an iPhone 4 previously owned and used by another colleague. After too many attempts at entering the wrong PIN code, the iPhone decided to deactivate itself. I was tasked with bringing this iPhone back to life.
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Update 2014-11-30 Upgrading to Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.20 removed the timeout messages shown below. The bug was acknowledged in the change log as Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression) Since upgrading Oracle VirtualBox from 4.3.16 to 4.3.18 on my Windows 7 x64 host, most of my FreeBSD guests […]
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I upgraded a stable/8 i386 system and switched from lang/perl5.16 to lang/perl5.20 only to experience problems with swig generated code for AMANDA. I have confirmed this behaviour on stable/9 amd64 too. I found 17 files containing these three lines: This results in error messages such as:
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I was among the many beta testers for Star Trek Online back in 2010, but I soon lost interest in the game. I recently revived my interest, though.
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Two Ricoh MP C5502’s exhibited the same symptoms, they were both stuck at updating their @remote certificates. If you have this problem, you’ll notice a message in the bottom left corner of the screen on the MFPs. The MFPs were fully functional, but nevertheless I wanted to get @remote up and running again.
Read More → Ricoh MP C5502 stuck at updating @remote certificateBlackboard Collaborate, Java Runtime Environment, and Windows 8/8.1
Strangely enough, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) fails to register javaws.exe as the handler for .jnlp files when installed in Windows 8/8.1. Just remember to choose javaws.exe, not java.exe nor javaw.exe. Further more, Blackboard Collaborate insists on using 64-bit JRE on 64-bit Windows, i.e. visit the directories and files usually found in C:\Program Files\Java, not the ones […]
Read More → Blackboard Collaborate, Java Runtime Environment, and Windows 8/8.1Manually rebuild Performance Counters
I tried to install some construction estimation software requiring MS SQL Server 2008 on a computer running Windows 8 only to encounter an unusual anomaly. MS SQL Server 2008 refused to install due to corrupted performance counters. The error message was kind enough to mention http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956, but you should really go and visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2554336.
Read More → Manually rebuild Performance CountersDell Latitude E6430 and the firmware setting for Optimus video
A Dell Latitude E6430 had Windows 7 reinstalled this August, and the firmware was upgraded along to revision A15. Somehow the firmware setting for Optimus video got disabled and I regrettably missed the change. Today, while upgrading the firmware to revision A16, I spotted the disabled Optimus video setting. Thus, I enabled the setting, and […]
Read More → Dell Latitude E6430 and the firmware setting for Optimus videoForcing ZFS to choose 4K disk blocks aka ashift=12
A recent post to the Illumos ZFS list suggested using: to force ZFS to choose 4K disk blocks when creating zpools.
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