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CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD on Dell XPS 15 9550
Earlier this week, a student walked into my office with his Dell XPS 15 9550 in hand. Sometimes his computer would behave, and sometimes, during heavy load, it would die with a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD. Dell’s own recovery DVD image was unable to restore the computer to a working order. The support personnel at Dell suggested […]
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See also Cisco Bug ID CSCuz72344.
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I have a few FreeBSD servers I want to virtualise. They all use ZFS for storage, so I figured a zfs send/receive operation would suffice. The tricky part is estimating how large the disks on the receiving end must be. The raidz1 pool will be comprised of three (virtual) disks, After trial and error, I […]
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Kryptowire announced on 2016-11-15 the discovery of malware in Android-based smart phones sold by, among others, Amazon US and BestBuy. The malware was allegedly created by Shanghai ADUPS Technology Co., Ltd. Kryptowire claims the malware sends all your text messages, all your contacts, all your call history, etc., to the domain names listed below. The […]
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A student came to my office today. His browser showed our fronter.com instance protected by a peculiar SSL certificate issued by royalvulkan.com. The norm for fronter.com instances are SSL certificates issued by COMODO CA Limited. The intrusive SSL certificate has a validity period spanning from 1996 to 2056, which is very odd. The certificate probably […]
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Error 30174-4 while installing MS Visio Professional 2016?
If you run into error 30174-4 while installing MS Office and related software, try running a full repair of the product from the Control Panel.
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After installing Autodesk Revit 2017 on a student’s laptop, the software started whining about missing msvcr100.dll. This was solved by repairing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4, both x86 and x64.
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Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 and Autodesk Network License Manager
I was installing Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 in the wee hours today, and I noticed the Autodesk Network License Manager was installed in C:\Autodesk\Network License Manager. That’s a bit strange when C:\Autodesk has until now been a temporary location for extracting the setup files. I can confirm moving the files to a saner location like […]
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Warning! Your server is on fire! Also, you are out of milk. Ref.: Linux Journal, Issue 267, July 2016, pp. 14-15.
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I just learned about the new C++ draft standard N4604. I read Section 16.8 “Predefined macro names” and created this little test program to assess the compilers available:
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