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Today had problem creating scheduled task for Shadow Copies on one of Windows 2003 file servers, details and fix after the break.

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Dammit, two hours worth of log and configurations mining gave pretty unexpected results.

Not really obvious (until you find it) that on the way to fix offline address book download error 0x8004010F, you first need to make sure that error 0x80004005 is fixed. But it’s common for MS products, you know what you’re buying…

Windows tends to limit you in setting different wallpapers for you multiple displays or spanning wide image across them. This utility will take your pain away. And it’s functional enough even in free form.

There are situations when you need some network printer to be available for all users of Windows running server or PC (terminal users for ex.). Dirty hack after the break ;o) Read the rest of this entry »

Had this mix working smoothly for couple of years. But recent migration of proxy server to the virtualized Ubuntu server caused strange behavior – sites which are using advanced web techniques (gmail, hotmail etc.) started to show empty pages without any tracks in log files. After some research I had to shoot down TCP window scaling which is enabled by default and decrease mtu to 1400. Full configuration after the break.

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New mice are always fun, especially when you choose linux as your primary working environment.
It was true with MS Wireless Explorer 2.0 and it still true with Logitech VX revolution.
There’re multiple approaches to make all these extra buttons work, but btnx is the most elegant one (imho, of course).

Pretty similar story – good notebook, creepy vista, no official XP support…

But easier solution this time: drivers, applications

Was tuning new LAMP cluster last night… Decided to revise what can further boost its performance – was really pleased with speed and functionality of this relatively new but awaited for long time piece of software. Details to come…

Recently I was stupid enough to assist one of my co-workers in buying ultra light notebook. The one called Asus U1E was chosen due to decent weight to hardware power ratio. I’m not sure which exactly forces make Asus to pretend XP is not supported by this goodness, but Vista’s “spectacular” performance on this brand new CoreDuo with two Gigs of RAM has left me really surprised…

Anyway, decision was made that we want this notebook work, not creep…
List of XP drivers and utilities download links after the break.

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