Windows Server 2003 Offer Remote Assistance
November 7, 2011
I was having a bear of a time trying to find the offer unsolicited remote assistance page while logged into a Windows 2003 Server. Remote assistance is, at least IMHO, the best way to help users on your network. But I finally found out where it hides. Read more
Asp.net C# Globalization and Master Pages
April 11, 2011
Ubunty upgrade to 10.04 LTS breaks mysql
November 12, 2010
Well another complaint when upgrading to the latest version of Ubuntu. Mysql gets broken and will not work. I found a really simple fix that will help you all.
Ubunty hangs while upgrading to 10.04 LTS
November 10, 2010
If you’ve had the unfortunate experience where Ubuntu hangs while doing a an upgrade to 10.04 LTS. Then you’ve probably had a sleepless night. Fortunately there is a easy fix for the hang. All you have to do is figure out what process is keeping the upgrade stuck.
IIS, Asp.net, C# sending SMTP Mail so it won’t get flagged as spam by filters
August 30, 2010
I had a hell of a time getting my smtp mailer to send to aol and a few other places on our IIS server. It seems that with one little setting change I was able to get things working correctly. After taking the time to actually spend a few hours scouring the net and reading up on the delivery method I figured out how to send smtp mail correctly.
A simple way to put a page loading message for slow loading pages.
July 16, 2010
This came around from me answering a question on Experts Exchange. I had solved this some time ago for myself. But someone else needed some help so I gave them my example. If you ever need a simple loader for pages and don’t want to use jscript or any of that nonsense. You can use my example. Read more
Bypassing security on a word document
July 16, 2010
One of the guys here at work had a word doc that was secured with a password and was not editable. After flexing some brain muscle. I came up with a quick and dirty trick to bypass words security and make a Word doc that was editable using Windows 7 wordpad. Read more
Scion 2010 xB Alpine Premium Radio With Video
June 19, 2010
Recently I got a 2010 Scion xB with the Alpine premium head unit. After doing some research online I saw that it was possible to play video from an external source like a dvd player. I made a video that talks about this and I will post a few picks so that maybe you can also get video on your Alpine radio.
Crystal Reports: Using A Dataset And Multiple Tables
May 20, 2010
I was recently tasked with creating a excel file export of users in a database. Unfortunately the data is spread across multiple tables. Crystal Reports documentation on the web is unfortunately sparse when it comes to using multiple tables. In the following tutorial I will show you how to accomplish this task using asp.net and C# in Visual Studio 2008. Read more
Slow Samba transfer rates from Samba File Server
May 14, 2010
I was banging my head against the wall today trying to figure out why the heck it was taking 7 minutes to transfer a 12 mb file to my win xp desktop from my ubuntu samba file server. A simple change to my /etc/hosts file now lets me transfer a 514mb file in about 1 minute. Read more
