African Tech Safari

Any one who knows me farily well, knows that I spent the majority of my youth shut indoors with my face glued to a TV that no doubt had some Nintendo game playing on it.
I just found http://www.virtualnes.com and browsed the lists of games they have. I recognized over a dozen that I’m sure I [...]

If you are like me and love deploying systems from an image, you have may have experienced a problem when having the Operations Manager agent installed on the image, and after deployment and a rename of the server, you end up with event id’s 1220 and 7022 in your Operations Manager event log every 30 [...]

If you need to transfer the FUTURA AUTOPUNCH software to a new computer but have lost your CD key, you can use the following instructions to bypass the CD key requirements page and use Autopunch on your new computer.  These instructions assume you still have access to your old installation.
1. Install the Futura software that [...]

Everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy.

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so true.
I keep thinking about the disturbing pace at which technology is “evolving” and growing. Out servers at work are now being purchased with the idea in mind that they will be obsolete and “useless” within 3 years. This is absurd! You don’t buy a car thinking [...]

I have had one blackberry after another for the last 5 years. I have had enough! I finally gave up the crackberry addiction and supplanted it with a whole new beast of a device.
For years I’ve been pining away for a true “all-in-one” device that is capable of everything I could think I [...]

I’ve been fighting the good fight about a pure CSS website complete with properly aligned
DIV’s and everything for years. I am *SICK* of it. I do NOT have enough time to design this page properly, and I won’t until I somehow make it pay more than my full-time job. Since that isn’t going to happen [...]

Late in the middle of the night one of the domain controllers in the same AD site as the Exchange servers stopped functioning (TBD why) and the Exchange servers continued to try using that particular DC/GC to perform lookups.
The DC wasn’t accessible via most means and the event logs in the CAS servers had a [...]

This wonderful set of utilities gsecdump and msvctl have allowed me to test the hash injection attack that has been around for some time now. The utilities don’t work on vista and 2008, but my XP workstation was an easy target.
There is some general scrambling about now and there is a lot [...]

I spent close to an hour this morning trying to understand the watermarking features of the Gallery2 module, but ended up finding a bug in the modules ability to process .PNG images.  I also found the related thread on their forums: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/84808.
This may not actually be a bug in the Gallery2 module and [...]

After a planned restart this morning, a few (NOT ALL) users were experiencing trouble sending out from their Blackberry’s, and were unable to do name lookups from their handhelds.
In the application log on the BES were multiple event ID 20482
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: BlackBerry Messaging Agent ZYKLON Agent 1
Event Category: None
Event ID: 20482
Date: 1/14/2009
Time: [...]