Microsoft Windows

If you backup a Windows 2003 Small Business Server than you may have noticed that even though the backup appears to have completed successfully in the Server Manager, hidden away in the log there is this error message:

"SqlServerWriter" has reported an error 0x800423f4. The backup may continue, but the data for this component will not be backed up correctly.

After a lot of Googling I finally found the issue is the log on for the server SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS).

The user on my server was configured as .\Administrator, Change it to DOMAIN\Administrator and restart the service. All should be ok on your next backup.

LINKS
http://www.winvistatips.com/ms-sql-2005-express-broke-vss-sbs-backup-t63...
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=912414 Read more »

So you've got a few hundred gigabytes of Windows Update data and you can't move them to a network share because shifting the content to a UNC path doesn't work? No problem!

After a lot of research and a few headaches the easiest way I found to do this was creating a virtual iSCSI target.

First thing to do is:

1. Download StarWind Free Edition
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-free
You have to register for a account but then its free

2. Install this on your SAN/NAS/Storage server Read more »

I had a major problem at work today. I found sharing a StorNext volume via SMB on Windows Server 2008 makes subfolders and shares inaccessible to other Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 clients! However the same folders ARE accessible using Mac OS or Windows XP.

It turns out that SMB 2.0/2.1 is the culprit. If you havn't noticed this problem yet you will when your folders/shares have more than 19 files or subfolders within them.

The only solution is to disable SMB 2.0/2.1 which is easily done. Read more »

Wi-fi will not work unless you run a command in a terminal emulator with SPQRom 0.6 and overclocked kernel so do this to solve the problem without having to run a terminal or using gscript everytime you boot your phone!

From a command prompt in Windows:

Pull the file from your Tattoo using adb:

C:\>adb pull /etc/init.d/02squashsf c:\02squashsf

Open 02squashsf with WordPad and comment out the following line:

# busybox mount -o ro -t squashfs /dev/block/loop0 /system/lib/modules

Open a shell on your Tattoo with adb:

C:\>adb shell

Remount the file system as RW:

mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Push the edited file back to your device:

C:\>adb push c:\02squashsf /etc/init.d/02squashsf

Restart your tattoo and you are done! Read more »

Download the latest Antec Fusion driver from here...

http://www.antec.com/download/Fusion_driver_070507.zip
http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/index.php?page=support_faqDownload

Once installed navigate to the installation folder.

C:\Program Files\Antec\VFD or under Windows 7 x64 C:\Program Files (x86)\Antec\VFD

Right click on the VFD.exe application and set compatibility mode to Windows XP SP2. Read more »

The guys over at xda-developers.com have managed to root the HTC Tattoo which has proved a big problem for some time. Here are the links to their forum posts explaining how to do it yourself. its still in early development but managed to get it working using the instructions there!

Linux
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=635961

Windows
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5677932&postcount=18

Enjoy and thank the guys in the forum!

UPDATE

Here is the second update with a consistently working root method.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5707195&postcount=163

UPDATE 2

The easiest way to root the Tattoo now is the 1-click rooting method below. It also changes the recovery image so you can flash new roms! These now include 2.1 and 2.2 roms. Grab it from XDA-Developers.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=644279

Enjoy! Read more »

I was having some dreaded BSOD problems recently and managed to narrow my problem down to my USB device by doing the following so hopefully this will be useful for you too!

I didn't want to bother with using the command line so this method gives you a quick idea of the problem and you only need to install one tool. Read more »

I know very little about Linux but I found a distribution called Puppy Linux which can load the entire operating system into RAM which sounds perfect for the Acer Aspire One!

Getting it looking half decent on the other hand and getting the hardware working is not as simple as you might think.

Here are some patches, drivers & fixes I have found which should get Puppy Linux working correctly on the little Aspire. Read more »