The Sillican Files » kb http://blog.sillica.com Computers, Games, and Life Randomness Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to get Windows to Boot into Safe Mode without hitting F8 at startup http://blog.sillica.com/2009/04/14/how-to-get-windows-to-boot-into-safe-mode-without-hitting-f8-at-startup/ http://blog.sillica.com/2009/04/14/how-to-get-windows-to-boot-into-safe-mode-without-hitting-f8-at-startup/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:45:45 +0000 Koopa http://blog.sillica.com/?p=707 I don’t know about you, but I find it annoying to walk users through how to boot windows up in start mode.  Instead, I have started to implement this technique.

Click on Start and then Run.

In the text box in the Run window, type msconfig and click OK. This will open the System Configuration Utility program.

Note: Do not make changes in the System Configuration Utility other than those outlined here to avoid causing serious system issues. This utility controls a number of startup activities other than those involved with Safe Mode.

Click on the BOOT.INI tab located at the top of the System Configuration Utility window.

Check the checkbox next to /SAFEBOOT and click OK.

You will then be prompted to either Restart, which will restart the PC immediately, or Exit Without Restart, which will close the window and allow you to restart the PC manually.

After the restart, the PC will automatically boot into Windows XP Safe Mode.

Note: Windows XP will continue to boot into Safe Mode until the System Configuration Utility is configured to again boot normally.

When your work in Safe Mode is complete, click on Start and then Run. Type msconfig in the text box and click OK.

This will again open the System Configuration Utility program.

Choose the Normal Startup radio button and click OK.

You will then be prompted to either Restart, which will restart the PC immediately, or Exit Without Restart, which will close the window and allow you to restart the PC manually.

After the restart, the PC will boot into Windows XP normally and will continue to do so

For information about this can be found here.

]]> http://blog.sillica.com/2009/04/14/how-to-get-windows-to-boot-into-safe-mode-without-hitting-f8-at-startup/feed/ 0 Ipswitch Problem with %free disk space and server 2008 http://blog.sillica.com/2009/02/11/ipswitch-problem-with-free-disk-space-and-server-2008/ http://blog.sillica.com/2009/02/11/ipswitch-problem-with-free-disk-space-and-server-2008/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:11:01 +0000 Koopa http://blog.sillica.com/?p=671 A co-worker of mine noticed this issue.  Ipswitch was not reporting the free disk space for windows server 2008.  he did a little bit of research and noticed that it is a bug for windows 2008.  Please review the following web links to get more information on this.

http://forums.ipswitch.com/Topic49616-14-1.aspx

This details a script workaround on how to resolve this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949701

This is the link that microsoft admits that they broke something that used to work correctly… :)

]]> http://blog.sillica.com/2009/02/11/ipswitch-problem-with-free-disk-space-and-server-2008/feed/ 0 An error has occurred. (80023017) http://blog.sillica.com/2008/10/16/an-error-has-occurred-80023017/ http://blog.sillica.com/2008/10/16/an-error-has-occurred-80023017/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:27:16 +0000 Erick http://blog.sillica.com/?p=629 I am getting this error # 80023017 when I try to open the Playstation Store on my PS3.  This is twice now in two days.  Warhawk doesn’t work either.  It’s frustrating.

It’s unscheduled maintenance that’s doing it, and I hope they get the issue resolved soon.  If you’re getting this error, try back later.  Hopefully it should just be a few hours.  I’d be surprised if it was still down tomorrow.

It’ll give me more time to work on SimYard anyways, and a new poker game on the way!

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This is twice in two days now.  I wonder what’s going on.  I doubt they’d be upgrading in the middle of the afternoon right as kids are getting home from school.  There must be some sort of outage.

It’s frustrating, I wanted to take a Warhawk break.  I just made Sergeant and my next two levels are only point-based because I already have the achievement.

Oh well, back to SimYard!

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An error has occurred.
(80023017)

What does this mean?

This means that the server is down due to maintenance.  Try again in a couple hours.

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In the meantime, why don’t you try SimYard?

:)

]]> http://blog.sillica.com/2008/10/14/ps3-cannot-connect-to-playstation-store-psn-an-error-has-occurred-80023017/feed/ 8 Rightfax 9.3: How to migrate SQL express to SQL 2005 on the same box http://blog.sillica.com/2008/08/27/rightfax-93-how-to-migrate-sql-express-to-sql-2005-on-the-same-box/ http://blog.sillica.com/2008/08/27/rightfax-93-how-to-migrate-sql-express-to-sql-2005-on-the-same-box/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:35:37 +0000 Koopa http://blog.sillica.com/?p=597 DISCLAIMER: I am not a SQL administrator and I have not done this migration.  I have installed Rightfax on servers that had multiple SQL services on it, so this should work.  I am going to perform this procedure in the upcoming weeks so if it blows up, I’ll update the post.  :)

1. Install SQL 2005

2. Use SQL manager (not sure of exact name. Your DB people should know) to backup rightfax database. Stop the Rightfax services before backing up the database.

3. Use SQL manager to restore rightfax database to SQL 2005

4. Reconfigure the ODBC connection to point to the new location.

1. Go to Enterprise Fax manager.

2. Double Click Rightfax Database Module

3. Click on the three dots under SQL Connection

4. Click the three dots in ODBC Data Source

5. Go to the System DSN tab

6. Configure Rightfax (or whatever naming convention was used)

7. Under SQL server you want to connect to, select the SQL 2005 server\Rightfax. You can find the path by using the SQL manager. It will prompt which server service to connect to.

8. Start the services.

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  1. Open the registry.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options.
  3. Add a DWORD value named DumpsterAlwaysOn and set it to 1.
  4. Restart Microsoft Outlook to make the change take effect.

Then from the inbox, you can go to recover deleted items from the Tools tab.

Its as simple as that.  No need for expensive gimmick softwares!

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http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.htm

Run this program and do a full scan. It will find Antivirus 2009 and remove it. For good measure, I also manually remved it. You need to kill the task (usually it has something with 2009 in it running.) and then go to Program Files and delete the directory Antivirus 2009.

The end, your done! Good luck!

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“The archives required to make an SSL connection are not available. Please contact your Citrix Administrator”

The bizzare thing is that he has citrix client installed and everything should work. Well, I did a little bit of searching on the web, and I found the following resolved the issue.

For Web Interface 4.x:

In the Access Suite Console, go to Web Interface > Manage Client Deployment and select the SSL/TLS check box on the Client for Java page.

I also had to enable the Java client as well. This was done in Select Launch Clients area of the install.

See full article here…

]]> http://blog.sillica.com/2008/07/08/citrix-error-the-archives-required-to-make-an-ssl-connection-are-not-available/feed/ 6 Why is the word EXPLAIN in front of every MySQL query in SHOW PROCESSLIST? http://blog.sillica.com/2008/07/04/why-is-the-word-explain-in-front-of-every-mysql-query-in-show-processlist/ http://blog.sillica.com/2008/07/04/why-is-the-word-explain-in-front-of-every-mysql-query-in-show-processlist/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:28:17 +0000 Erick http://blog.sillica.com/?p=538 So, I do a SHOW PROCESSLIST command in phpMyAdmin, and it shows a ton of SELECT statements that have EXPLAIN in front of every one of them!  Now, I never even heard of the EXPLAIN keyword, so I certainly didn’t do it.

It took me a couple hours to figure out, but PHP was putting it there.  I had turned mysql.trace_mode = On because the comments said it would give me warnings to table/index scans.  It did give me a couple warnings where I didn’t call mysql_free_result(), so I was happy with it.  But apparently it also added EXPLAIN to all SELECT statements in order to get some data out of that.  Well, I don’t want to slow down the database, so I turned that off.  Good to know it’s there I guess, and exactly what it does.

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