Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Small Business: how to secure your computers

Monday, January 10th, 2011

To keep your business running effectively, your computers should be running effectively. This means keeping up to date with the following software and security features.

Business Firewall
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Google Chromium: A Dud or Stud in the making

Monday, June 28th, 2010

google chrome

We know that Google is amazing when it comes to innovation and technology. Not only has it offered spectacular services on the Internet, it has also been able to deliver them with such precision that one can only admire this company in awe. No doubt some of the ‘waves’ that Google created have rippled off, but (more…)

Catch the FIFA 2010 Fever !! Waka- Waka !!

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

FIFA 2010 South Africa

There are only a few things on our planet that transcend race, color, nationality, sex or age to reach a realm that exists beyond these barriers. One such thing is – ‘Soccer.’ When you hear (more…)

IOS 4 software update unlocks hundreds of new features for existing iphone users!

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Apple IOS 4

Current Iphone users are anticipating the release of the IOS 4 software update to unlock hundreds of new features on their existing Iphones.

It’s pretty cool that Apple (more…)

How to setup a public calendar on Exchange 2007

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Exchange 2010 Logo

The only way that I know of to do this is (more…)

Installing an SSL certificate on Exchange 2010

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Exchange 2010 Logo

The syntax for installing an SSL certificate in Exchange 2010 has changed slightly from the 2007 version. Below is the new syntax
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The requested operation requires elevation fix Start ++

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

The requested operation requires elevation UAC

Have you ever tried to run a command and got a message saying “The requested operation requires elevation”?

This is (more…)

hal.dll missing or corrupt after internet explorer 8 installation.

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Internet Explorer 8
It appears that there is an issue with some systems after installing internet explorer 8. Users get an error message stating that hal.dll is missing or corrupt. IE8 is actually deleting the boot.ini file. Here’s what I did to fix it. (more…)

Critical security issue affects all versions of Microsoft Exchange.

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

MicrosoftSecurity

Yesterday Microsoft released a critical security bulletin announcing that a vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Microsoft Exchange has been discovered.

The security hole allows (more…)

Running fsck on the root filesystem using Knoppix

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Knoppix

I recently had a Fedora server with an LVM filesystem on the root partition. Since you can’t run fsck on a mounted disk and you can’t unmount the root file system, (more…)