Resetting a Dell iDRAC or DRAC card
Sometimes those pesky DRAC cards in the Dell servers just seem to not respond or act up. If you still have CLI access to it, you can reset it a two different ways. If you are local to the machine, and it has OpenManage installed (OMSA), use this command to perform a soft-reset: c:racadm racreset […]
Checkbox for default program is disabled in Open With
Recently, I started running into an issue with Visual Studio, solution files (.sln), and project files (.csproj). For the various clients that I support, I have four versions of Visual Studio installed… This means that if I try opening a solution file in the wrong one, it will either say it’s incompatible with that version […]
JISC: how an offensive tweet helped the data viz revolution
Back in November, JISC InfoNet published the results of its survey of BI solutions in Higher- and Further- education. A snaphot is below. Being someone who is passionate about good quality visualisations, I rattled off a couple of less than complimentary tweets about this. Here’s one: JISC got in touch with me privately and they […]
SQL 2005 RTM service fails to start after new installation
I ran across this multiple times over the last two years or so. This issue started with the introduction of the AMD tri-core processors, and continued when Intel released the hexa-core processors. This only applies to SQL 2005 RTM or older, on processors that are not a power of 2 (or single core). When you […]
Invocation Error on SBS 2011 installation
I came across this error on a Small Business Server 2011 installation once or twice where it would error out towards the end with a Target Invocation Exception. This so far has been identified as using a reserved login name for SBS 2011. Normally “Administrator” and “Network Administator” are reserved, and the installer will not […]
2003 SBS Missing CAL’s
Recently I ran into a problem of a 2003 Small Business Server showing no additional Connection Access Licenses (CAL’s) other than the 5 that comes installed by default. This stopped all access to the server’s resources except for 5 concurrent users. After doing lots or research and digging I found that there are 2 files […]
How to Get the Most Out of Your Laptop’s Battery
Laptops are irreplaceable for several of us. Next to our smart phones, they are the simply the best mobile way to keep us connected to the digital universe we are all so accustomed to these days. How on earth did we get by without the internet? But if you’re like me, staying connected is of […]
Outlook 2010 re-index issue after Microsoft patches
After some recent Microsoft updates, some folks may have noticed that they cannot search their Outlook items anymore. Where they used to get a good list of items when searching they now receive the following message: “Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed. Click here for more details.” And […]
InterWorks Helps Launch New Multiblog Platform for World’s Largest Biotechnology Organization
OKC, OKLA. — The world’s largest biotechnology organization, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has paired with the web developers at InterWorks, Inc. and Baker & Hill Graphic Design, to launch a revamped and redesigned multiblog platform (BIOtech-NOW.org). The launch of the improved platform was designed to consolidate the various BIO blogs into one harmonious and simple […]
How to Resolve Security-Licensing-SLC Event ID 12293 Errors
In one of the environments I was working in, I found that I was consistently receiving an error with Security-Licensing-SLC Event ID 12293 at the same time once a day. I had always used MAK keys so this error message puzzled me. However, here is an article and forum post from Microsoft’s website explaining the […]