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07 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

iPad owners raise Wi-Fi issues

iPad owners raise Wi-Fi issues

Washington: As Apple iPad owners around the United States play with their new machines, some are complaining about the Wi-Fi connectivity of the devices.

An online Apple support page has received dozens of messages from iPad owners about erratic Wi-Fi service and so have other sites dedicated Read More

12 March 2010 ~ Comments Off

Problem preventing Windows from checking the licence?

Problem preventing Windows from checking the licence?

One of our remote locations server running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard edition had a strange error last week. Upon logging in, the system gave this error:

A Problem is Preventing Windows from Accurately Checking the License for this Computer

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25 February 2010 ~ Comments Off

Configure Dadamail with correct “return path” to catch Bounces

Configure Dadamail with correct “return path” to catch Bounces

Since I have my websites on dedicated server box, I also use script called dadamail (dadamailproject.com) to send newsletters to website members. Recently, I upgraded the newsletter script to the latest version as well as configured MysteryGirl plugin to handle bounced email messages. Unfor Read More

15 December 2009 ~ Comments Off

Website moved to New Dedicated Server

Website moved to New Dedicated Server

Solutions.pro and my other websites are running on brand spanking new server after hardware failures on the previous server led me to move data over. About 10 days ago, my dedicated server started having hardware issues with the RAID array. After few hours of downtime, I found out that one of the ha Read More

15 December 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Adaptec RAID Card Array Status using SSH

Adaptec RAID Card Array Status using SSH

I recently moved to new dedicated server and turns out that the server is equipped with Adapted RAID Card. The server has linux CentOS 5.4 64bit installed and if you were to check health status of the RAID array using Read More

04 December 2009 ~ Comments Off

Linksys PLK300 Powerline Network Kit Review

Linksys PLK300 Powerline Network Kit Review

If you live in a house that is not well wired as far as LAN is concerned then you have couple of alternatives that can help yo achieve full connectivity throughout your house. We recently moved and as it turns out, some of the media equipment (HTPC, etc.) need high-speed LAN connection to be able to Read More

21 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Office Communications Server Front-End service terminated

Office Communications Server Front-End service terminated

We deployed Office Communications Server 2007 last year - a great comunications tool to have within your enterprise. Few weeks ago, Microsoft released update (KB974571) for Office Communicator as well as Windows Server 2003 which caused the OCS's front-end service to terminate and not start.Read More

06 October 2009 ~ Comments Off

Clone a Virtual Machine In VMware ESX Server

I am doing some research on Virtualization technologies and how it can help us consolidate some of the servers on one hardware machine. So far, it look very promising, especially with VMware ESX/ESXi server. I cam accross this video by TrainSignal on cloning virtual machines in VMware ESX server to speed up the deployment process. Continue Reading

02 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Firewall, NAT and DNS, reverse DNS entries do not match Error

If you host your own email behind a NAT device or firewall, you've probably seen this issue come up at least once in your enterprise. Recently, I've received some complaints about exchange 2007 bouncing email messages with error messages like this:

mxi5p.craigslist.org #554 5.7.1 Read More

08 September 2009 ~ Comments Off

Debug and Optimize vBulletin with Config Constants

Debug and Optimize vBulletin with Config Constants

If you use vBulletin forum software, you probably know what a wonderful piece of code it is and type of features, enhancements it offers for you as administrator as well as to your visitor is truly amazing. At some point you would need to debug, fine tune, troubleshoot or fix some problems with vBul Read More