While I have not used Microsoft Access for a long time (no serious work since Access 2.0 circa 1995), I can’t believe how the product has evolved. The Access 2013 interface is virtually unusable for simple data cleansing/mining tasks. I mistakenly thought Access would be right tool to take some Excel data, add some primary […]
“Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” —Mahatma Gandhi
If you receive this advice from Microsoft SQL Server: “You should correct this situation by resetting the owner of database ‘mydatabase’ using the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement.” I found the easiest solution is to actually drop the existing user account in the database and then change the owner to the server’s login account using the following […]
My main PC, which was running Windows 8, failed. Rather than repair the Windows 8 OS, I reverted back to Windows 7—and the desktop experience is much better. Just in case another fresh install is ever needed, below are the free software applications I install and recommend: VLC media player – VideoLAN is the best […]
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 […]