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PXE Boot Windows Defender Offline

April 30, 2012 2 comments

I have found that being able to PXE boot computers that I work on has saved me countless CDs and hours creating bootable USB drives. This has become a very integral part of my business and allows me to boot all kinds of recovery, diagnostic, installation and cloning tools. Among these that I have added is the Windows Defender Offline CDs, previously the Standalone System Sweeper while in beta. This free anti malware and anti virus software from Microsoft allows for easy offline scanning of system using their Windows Defender definitions. While I also like the Trinity Rescue Kit and have created scripts to help automate TRK this WDO is just another tool I have available to me. continue reading…

Remy Services, Technical, Technology boot.wim, ImageX, PXE, SCCM, WAIK, WDO, WIM, Windows, Windows Defender, Windows Defender Offline

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Apache bind address already in use

January 7, 2012 No comments

I recently was moving my sites from a CentOS 5 box to a newer CentOS 6 box and ran in to an issue where Apache wouldn’t restart for me once I added my virtual hosts. Before I started the move I verified that Apache was working properly with the default configs and I then started taking my changes i needed from my old httpd.conf to the new, after a few changes Apache wouldn’t start and presented me with nothing more than “(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443″ continue reading…

Technical, Technology apache, centos, httpd, Linux, make_sock

Windows XP and Current User Not Recognized Errors

July 10, 2010

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I have recently been seeing many Windows XP Home SP3 computers that are giving me the error “The current user account is not recognized. Restart the computer and then open User Accounts.” when trying to edit user profile from the Control Panel or directly with nusrmgr.cpl. While at first I could not find a solution and I thought this was some sort of damage done by Malware on the computers I have since found a fix to it. continue reading…

Technical, Technology cmd, command, malware, net localgroup, net user, nusrmgr.cpl, Windows, Windows XP

How to convert Dynamic Disks back to Basic Disk without losing data

March 24, 2010

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Are Dynamic Disks Really Not Down-gradable?

If you have ever worked with Dynamic Disks you know about all the warnings that once converted there is no way to undo the conversion. These warnings are a little misleading as you can convert some Dynamic Disk back to Basic, without losing any data. continue reading…

Technical 07, 42, Basic Disk, disk, Dynamic Disk, hex, mirror, mirrored, ntfs, strip, striped

Google Voice and Blocking Unknown Callers

February 12, 2010 10 comments

In the last few days I have had a few calls to my Google Voice phone number where the caller lets it ring, once or twice, and then hangs up. The calls are coming from an “Unknown” caller but that is why I went with Google Voice as my primary number, call blocking and call history.

I logged in to my Google Voice site and sure enough, there are the inbound calls from “Unknown” with the option to either report them as spam or to block them. Reporting them as spam isn’t really what I want to do as that still rings the phone and just doesn’t allow for voice-mails to be left, I wanted to block them altogether. I have some concerns about blocking the “unknown” as Google Voice seems to know who is actually calling as you can see when choosing to block them they ask “Are you sure you want to block Unknown.95f990ac7cec66623daab9a6f37dd5fdea948088?”. The GUID there implies to me that Google knows the originating phone and should be able to block this one number, and only the one number, but is this actually what happens? continue reading…

General Banter Block Caller, Google Voice, Unknown Caller

Remy Services Wiki

June 15, 2009 No comments

I created this blog to record interesting issues and unique situations in my daily trekkings but there are sometimes those little things that just aren’t worth blogging about.If I don’t blog about the issue I end up forgetting the solution. So how do you get around this issue? Creat your own wiki, that’s what I did. continue reading…

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Vista Network World Icon

June 10, 2009 2 comments

I have always wondered and never looked into how Vista knows when it is online with the little globe over the network icon and today I found out how it does this. This might not be anything surprising to many of you but I thought I would share this little tidbit. continue reading…

Technical Glob Icon, MSFT, MSFTNCSI, NCSI, network, Vista, World Icon

Aardvark

May 30, 2009rss No comments

So it has been way to long, again… I have two posts I am working on that I should be posted soon but in the meantime I have something quick to post about.

Over the past few months I have been playing around with Aardvark and I must say it is an interesting idea and I have already found it to be most usful. The idea behind Aardvark is a search engien where you can find someone to ask about recommendations, research help, advice, second opinions, tips and more. It is a little hard to explain as this is one of the first such search engiens I have seen but if you check out their site you can get a feel for the technology and its uses.

If you happen to want to join my Aardvark network feel free to use the link I have in my links section.

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Video Card Corruption

January 23, 2009 3 comments

Ok, so here is an issue I have seen around work and I just found again with the side business and it has always been a sore spot with me. The issue seems to lie in ATI video cards more often then any other company and does not seem to be limited to just PC boxes but also Mac’s. The issue is memory corruption, and it happens way to often for me to say it isn’t just an over heated card or a single bad card here and there.

My experience with this issue started just about three years ago around work, we had 90+ desktops shipped to us with some ATI cards in them continue reading…

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Technical ati, memory corruption, radion, video card, video corruption

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