Diving head-first into technology, proven or not. In a perfect world, it would all work the first time. We all know how that goes. Too cynical? Maybe, maybe not. Stay tuned as the reports come in...
I like Windows. But I want to learn more about Linux. What better way than to install it an a hand-me-down machine? It only had 256MB RAM so I had to pony up a little for 2GB. However, after installing Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 desktop), I’m finding more and more reasons to either stick with Windows or switch to a Mac.
I use several apps that are not available for Linux. This is the list today, but it keeps growing:
I have several options:
My 5-button wireless mouse needs to work and I also need to find a driver for my pen tablet. There is an open source project for the tablet and likely it’s good and will work. But is it worth the time?
from InfoWorld: Anticipating the new Active Directory (20060626)
A search on Amazon for this book, Microsoft Windows PowerShell: TFM,
http://monadblog.blogspot.com
http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron
http://abhishek225.spaces.live.com
http://mow001.blogspot.com
http://www.leeholmes.com/blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/default.aspx
http://sapien.eponym.com/blog/Scripting/WindowsPowerShell
Found this one at scriptinganswers.com:
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/11/23/let-s-do-a-deep-drill-into-select-string.aspx
A friend kindly recommended these as good places for info on programming Excel.
I never thought I'd find out what to do with those MEMORY.DMP files you get when a Windows machine crashes, but today I dug around and found this blog that explains it all: Petergal's SBS Blog. There are links to the Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows 32-bit version and the symbol files as well as instructions on how to use the tool. It doesn't have to be installed on the server that crashed, but you need access to the MEMORY.DMP file. I copied it to my local machine and it ran fine.
A kernel file is missing from the disk. Insert a system disk and restart the system.
Microsoft's KB article which lists bcupdate.exe as a utility to help fix it: Q155892
The Little Known "Console" Remote Desktop (RDP) Connection...
Jeff Widmer's Blog also has a few comments on connecting using the /console switch. One says you can add this line to an .RDP file, though I haven't verified it:
connect to console:i:1
Note that connecting to the console only works with Windows Server 2003 despite other indications about it working with Windows Server 2000. Search for "MSTSC /console" on this page for details.
Found a couple of useful sites with utilities for active directory and GPOs. Each has links to blogs as well. GPOGuy.com is Darren Mar-Elia's site. He's got training videos posted along with some utilities. His blog included references to activedir.org and dirteam.com, so I took a look there as well. Another blog by Carlos is at dirteam.com where you can get a utility called DSExplorer. Pretty neat stuff!
It's not enough to replace an expiring/expired SSL certificate on a server running the Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG). You also need to configure CSG to use the new cert and allow the service to restart. See Citrix article. The article actually refers to a different problem, but the error message is the same. The part I found useful was the following line:
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/16.cfm
Alain Lissoir's home page
Citrix Command Line Utilities
Integrating Macs and Microsoft Active Directory
ip calculator
Kelly's Korner (XP)
Microsoft cmd line ref
Microsoft Terminal Licensing Service FAQ
MS Scripting Center
Registry Security Basics
remote desktop stuff (Daniel Petri)
reset Terminal Server session
Scripting Guys' Webcasts
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The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless LAN
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