tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67163172009-07-02T18:46:48.685-05:00IT blogging from the corn, soybean, & hog state... oink.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358666107568833640noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716317.post-1133806408557222252007-03-16T12:13:00.000-05:002007-03-16T12:22:58.471-05:00

Final revision:Back in August 2004, when Microsoft released SP2 for Windows XP, I found that many (but not all) of my patched PCs were no longer accepting Remote Desktop connections. The error message was simply this: "The remote computer has ended the connection."Many hours of investigation and testing resulted in no definitive answers. Months went by and several people were e-mailing and

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358666107568833640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716317.post-1126230981045126652005-09-08T20:56:00.000-05:002005-09-08T20:56:21.066-05:00

I’m not fond of Dell’s Windows installations and since we have a Microsoft Campus Agreement, I prefer to just wipe the systems and put a clean copy of NT on them.  For some reason, though, a new Dimension 9100 model gave me fits.  It hung up during the “installing devices” part of the XPsp2 install, which led me to Microsoft KB article 828267.Unfortunately, although a reboot did get it to

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358666107568833640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716317.post-1108933046490691692005-02-20T14:57:00.001-06:002008-05-29T07:42:44.230-05:00

Google’s Gmail web-based e-mail service allows one to download their Gmail account messages via POP3.Once logged into your Gmail account, click on “Settings” and then click on “Fowarding and POP”.“Enable POP” and choose how you want downloaded messages to behave (stay in Gmail’s inbox, move to the archive folder, or send to trash). The last step is to go into your e-mail client of choice and

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A few of our Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client users didn’t have their IMAP account setting set to “Use secure connection (SSL)”. It’s an easy enough change to make, just a single check-box, usually anyway. Unfortunately, one of our users would make the change only to get this error box pop-up:Alert: Could not initialize the browser’s security component. It was followed by another error box

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358666107568833640noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716317.post-1080954126408811702004-04-02T18:54:00.000-06:002007-10-24T00:06:59.858-05:00

If you have a Dell OptiPlex GX270 and a SATA hard drive, you will likely have problems using ImageCenter 5.x (formerly a product of PowerQuest, but then acquired by Symantec). At the time I originally posted about this problem, in August 2004, I had wasted hours trying to figure out why I was unable to create an image for my then brand new Dell model to the file server. I had never had this

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