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17 Mar
2010

KB953297 installation fails – working solution!

I just described that KB974417 fails to install on a few of my clients. Well, so does KB953297. Unforunately, I don't have error messages for this update. But I can tell how I fixed it:

The fix

Trying to install NDP1.1sp1-KB953297-X86.exe… Read more, I got the message that the software we're

IT | No Comments » | Tags: KB953297, KBsomething, Windows, WSUS

17 Mar
2010

KB974417 install fails – working solution!

Please read this updated article instead.
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I recently installed a new Microsoft WSUS… Read more server. Most of it went just fine. Except for a few updates that weren't needed according to windowsupdate.com, but were required according to WSUS. Especially KB974417 was pretty annoying.

Windows | 53 Comments » | Tags: KB974417, KBsomething, updates, Windows, Windows Updates, Windows XP, WSUS

16 Mar
2010

Right-click in Firefox

A lot of websites use the right mouse button for some menu function. For instance, in Google maps, the right click is used to set destination points. Google apps uses the right click to add/remove rows/columns from the spreadsheet. When I right-clicked, my Firefox displayed it's own menu right over… Read more

IT | No Comments » | Tags: Google apps, Google Maps, webapps

23 Feb
2010

Share one VPN connection

My personal Linux laptop is a real spider in the web. It's got OpenVPN connections to the office, to the datacenter, to serveral family members, etcetera. I love it. But sometimes, there are some tasks that Linux simply can't do, like running a vSphere client. For those situations, I use… Read more

Linux, Networking, Windows | No Comments » | Tags: openvpn, route, vpn

22 Feb
2010

Adobe Reader and Acrobat security update

The last year or so, Adobe Reader has had a whole lot of leaks. Trend Micro… Read more published a blog yesterday about the fact that Adobe released an out-of-band update to plug yet another security hole.

If you want to use Adobe Reader, update. But I have a better suggestion: ditch

Desktop software | No Comments » | Tags: Acrobat, Adobe, security, updates

12 Feb
2010

VMWare Data Recovery default password

If you surf to http://[vdr-host]:5480 you will be asked for a password. user: root password: vmw@re Not very secure. Better make sure the VDR is firewalled.© GeekLabInfo… Read more

Virtualization | No Comments » | Tags: default password, Esx, Esx4, vdr, VMWare, VMWare Data Recovery, vSphere

4 Feb
2010

Magento and safe mode

The e-commerce application magento, for some reason, expects to have a lot of permissions on every server. One thing I stumbled upon when trying to install magento, was the creation of /tmp/magento/var. Since /tmp could be shared between all users, this may not be the safest way. That's why my… Read more

PHP | 3 Comments » | Tags: e-commerce, fix, magento, patch, PHP

3 Feb
2010

PXE Boot with old-style dhcp and tftp

In this article I'm covering the use of old-style dhcp and tftp, which is useful for company networks that have/need a complete dhcp server running. Personally, for smaller setups, I now prefer dnsmasq to do the job.

Booting from PXE… Read more

With most modern onboard and PCI network interface cards (NICs),

Linux, Networking | No Comments » | Tags: dhcp, ftp, Linux, pxe, syslinux, tftp

1 Feb
2010

Firefox 3.6 update broke VMWare WebAccess

I already covered how to run VMWare Remote Console outside the browser. But the latest Firefox update broke more. It appears that Firefox is no longer connecting to SSL2 websites anymore. The problem accessing the console is that FF 3.6 now has SSL2 disabled by default. Open about:config and change … Read more

Virtualization | No Comments » | Tags: Firefox, VMWare

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