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Apple: How to reset an iPod Nano 8GB?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 27, 2009 / 21 Comments

My Apple iPod Nano 8GB froze. I connected the iPod to my pc where Apple iTunes was installed. To fix that problem see my instruction below:

Posted in Apple
Server management: Symantec LiveUpdate

Posted by Ivan
/ March 26, 2009 / Leave a comment

If you are managing Symantec LiveUpdate server and you sized your server diskspace on the save side than you may run into full disk space issues. Example below having the update running for some weeks: Well it happened once that disk size had 34MB left and Symantec was not updating for...

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File server: Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2009 / 2 Comments

If you are managing a Windows Server 2003 file server than this add-on should be installed. Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration makes visible only those files or folders that the user has the rights to access. When Access-based Enumeration is enabled, Windows will not display files or folders that the...

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Software Packaging: Internet Explorer 8

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2009 / 4 Comments

Here is my script and commands I used to install Internet Explorer 8 with a cmd script. I used this script to perform manual installation but it can also be used to deploy the package with software distribution. IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe /passive /nobackup /norestart The script will install IE, without user interaction,...

Posted in IE
Twitter: TweetIE for Internet Explorer

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

CloudBerry TweetIE is a Twitter plug-in for IE CloudBerry Twitter plug-in for IE helps you to post excerpts from the websites you visit with a click of the button and attach a short URL to the source page. Select the text on the web pages and tweet it to...

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WordPress: Reset Admin password

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

At some point I lost my admin account password for a WordPress site. There are several ways to perform a password reset for WordPress. These are my instruction how I reset my “admin” account password for WordPress 2.7.1. How to reset WordPress admin password? Open a linux shell Generare a md5 password by running echo -n...

Posted in Wordpress
Windows: Internet Explorer 8

Posted by Ivan
/ March 22, 2009 / Leave a comment

Internet Explorer 8 is released to public. I installed recent beta’s of IE 8 and I had some problems with it. Before I installed IE 8 I run one test which I will share below. The result is promising ;-). 10%+ less memory usage by IE 8 when comparing same websites opened in IE 7....

Posted in IE, Uncategorized
JeOS: how to install missing crontab?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 19, 2009 / 1 Comment

While working with my Ubunu JeOS 8.04 virtual machine I found out that crontab was missing. Crontab was not included by default. Crontab is the linux scheduler to run things on specific times you define. Oeps seems crontab is missing on my system. How to install crontab on Ubuntu JeOS?...

Posted in JeOS, Ubuntu
SMS 2003: Error 25100

Posted by Ivan
/ March 16, 2009 / Leave a comment

I am still managing a SMS 2003 environment and last week we encountered following message on one of the SMS 2003 clients. The message appeared in Application Eventviewer and SMS client did not report back to our SMS Primary site: Event Type: Error Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event...

Posted in 2003
WordPress: intranet and firewall

Posted by Ivan
/ March 11, 2009 / 2 Comments

I am a huge fan of WordPress blogging platform. Recently I introduced the platform in my enterprise environment. WordPress is running behind a restricted network and it has no connection to the Internet. While installing and finalizing the virtual machine which is used to host WordPress I encountered one problem...

Posted in Wordpress