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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.

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 […]

A recent post to the Illumos ZFS list suggested using: to force ZFS to choose 4K disk blocks when creating zpools.

Sometimes we need to modify single pixels in our image files. Strangely, GIMP does not provide a 1×1 brush out of the box. Below are the settings you must use to create your own 1×1 brush.

A student had recently installed Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014 SP1 on his Dell Inspiron 7520, running Windows 8.1. Inventor refused to run and crashed with a more or less useless crash report. It turns out that Dell or possibly someone else hadn’t properly installed the driver for the AMD Radeon HD graphics card. Catalyst Control […]

It’s the same story all over again. While preparing installation instructions for Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015, for my students, I came across an error I thought would have been fixed by now.

I have a bunch of FreeBSD VMs running in VirtualBox. They all share a number of virtual harddrives, and among them are a virtual harddrive with the common contents of /var/db/ports. My ports configuration of emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions have the OPENGL and X11 options set. This is useless on some of my simpler VMs, as those VMs […]

oinkmaster started complaining like this the other day: Order was restored once again by adding the following line to .wgetrc in roots home directory: This is not the proper way of handling HTTPS security, but it gets the job done. Previously we used HTTP access for downloading our snort rules, and it’s only recently we […]

Welcome to the United States of Earth. It is now a terrorist act to have a private conversation! And if saying so will get us arrested, pick me first! It will not change my participation level until my computer is forcefully taken away from me. (In Norwegian also known as “Amerikas forenklete stater,” “The Simplified […]

On my FreeBSD/i386 stable/10 and head VMs I have set up clang as the system compiler. I have also set CPUTYPE to corei7 as this is accepted by clang and pretty much describes the capabilities of the host system.

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Manually rebuild Performance Counters

Dell Latitude E6430 and the firmware setting for Optimus video

Forcing ZFS to choose 4K disk blocks aka ashift=12

A 1×1 brush in GIMP

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014 SP1 and Dell Inspiron 7520

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015: Serious error: VBA failed to initialize properly. Please restart Inventor.

Local slave port for `emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions` without OpenGL and X11

oinkmaster, wget, and HTTPS download of snort rules

A private conversation is now a terrorist act!

`CPUTYPE` woes with `editors/emacs` on FreeBSD/i386 `stable/10`