Windows 7 won’t boot up, Safe Mode hangs (typically at CLASSPNP.SYS), the System Recovery can’t fix (Bad Patch and AutoFailover errors) and there are no recovery points to revert back to. ...
Hurray!! Even Microsoft wants users to upgrade from IE6 to something modern ...
You may encounter the following error on installation: Installation ended prematurely because of an error when trying to install 32-bit or 64-bit qlikView on Windows 7. With or without UAC (User Acces ...
As the VMWare plugin does not work with Mozilla‘s Firefox 3.6.6 – and as it cannot launch a virtual machine console – you’ll have to use a workaround. This post results from th ...
Windows Vista and 7, if not before, allow symbolic links — mklink is your command-line friend! Creates a symbolic link. ...
Assuming you have a Windows machine and you interact with Linux boxen at any stage, chances are high that you have used and interacted with PuTTY at one stage or another. That beautiful, less than 2 s ...
Samba. Whopping goodness. Here are a few notes that help in the setup – from user creation, to directory settings etc This blog post contains a few lessons learnt and thus by extension a migrati ...
So the Security Summit 2010 has come to an end. Featuring speakers such as Moxie Marlinspike, Joe Grand and Jeremiah Grossman (again), it’s a pity to say that there wasn’t much new that wa ...
Sven Welzel
May 14, 2010
bash, code, conferences, javascript, linux, mysql, open source software, php, security, synch.cc, sysadmin, windows
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