Recently I moved a hard drive from an older PC to a newer one. I attempted to delete the Windows and Program Files directories and was given this unfriendly message: Folder Access Denied Clicking continue fails with a message abut requiring permission from TrustedInstaller. No need to Try Again, it won’t work. To fix this […]
While attempting to run nginx from a command prompt the following error was presented: nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0:80 failed (10013: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions) To see what local process was already listening on port 80 I used TCPView v3.05 from SysInternals. Turns […]
I love using the Google Reader service. When I have free time I read RSS articles on my Windows 8 Phone using Flux. Alas, Google is shutting the service down on July 1, 2013. This is a small cautionary tale that your data hosted in the cloud may disappear at the whim of the “hoster”.
A good quote on a better way to look at your to-do list… “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
The Shrew Soft VPN Client works great on Windows 8 as a replacement for the Cisco VPN client. The only oddity after installing the software is that the client program is not registered in the start menu (only the documentation shows up when searching for VPN). However, navigating to the folder C:\Program Files\ShrewSoft\VPN Client and […]
When using remote desktop into a Windows 7 machine, the start menu changes to have the options Log off, Disconnect and Lock. Sometimes doing a restart/reboot of the machine is necessary. To restart the system, launch a command prompt in administrator mode and issue the following command: shutdown /r /f issuing shutdown /? will display […]
“Though one man conquer a thousand men in battle a thousand times, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.” the Buddha
After installing Windows 8 on my main PC I went to launch VMWare Workstation (version 7.1.5 build-491717) and was greeted with this nice message: “Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured settings. To fix this problem, increase the amount of physical memory for all virtual machines to […]
According to StatCounter, Internet Explorer’s market share has been declining sharply over the past four years. One core reason is that newer versions of IE require the latest versions of the Windows operating system. Recently we developed an entire web reporting framework for IE9 only to discover during rollout that our client’s desktops were running […]
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” — Winston Churchill: was a British politician and statesman during World War II