May
31
2005

Norton1 – service crash… fixes and post-crash changes

Norton1 shut itself off late last week. Stefanie had a look at it and managed to get it back on it’s feet:

SYSTEM volume was almot full on Norton1. Stef found scads of MSFTPSVC log files and deleted them.
SAV service would not restart… apparently due to corrupt virus definitions. Repaired by following advice [...]

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May
16
2005

Legato License Service: RPC Port

I wonder if port of the problem I have been having connecting to the AX applications on IMGX owing to some sort of Firewall problem.
The only service that has been installed on any of the imaging servers that appears to be of any potential relevance is the “Legato Licensing Server” on DOCIMG1. Netstat -ano [...]

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May
16
2005

Unattended 2k3 server setup

Geoff wants to configure Unattended to allow for scripted installed of 2k3 servers.
Our thoughts are to provide a script that will:

Create regular fixed system partition sizes
Install standard system components: Backup, Power, Management, SNMP
What else? Std. local admin password?

??? What about the Dell partition, with Utils??? Is it worth it?
Some discovered resources:
Unattended.txt -> [...]

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May
13
2005

Oracle 10g Instant Client

Did some work on AX client installation today. I wanted to see how hard it will be to do a Oracle 10g Instant client install… looks pretty easy, although I don’t see why those $%#$%$# at Oracle can’t be bothered to make a light-weight MSI installer for the 10g client… it is the messy [...]

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May
13
2005

Deep Thoughts, #2

I do believe the “A” in “Type A Personality” should stand for “asshole”.
These also should be a “Type J Personality” for “jerk”.
(Throught attributed to Steve Cavrak)

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May
13
2005

Deep Thoughts, #1

Somedays, your arteries just need hardening.

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May
12
2005

Citrix Printing

Some discovered information on how Citrix prints (that is, when it actually prints at all…)
Citrix performs “automatic printer creation” for ICA client sessions. When a client uses ICA to connect, the Citrix server creates a “local” printer that points back down the ICA pipe to the client’s locally defined printers. The Server [...]

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May
12
2005

DiskXtender installation and configuration

Well, we finally got DiskXtender from the IKON folks. Unfortunately, we do not yet have a license code for the product, which we will need soon if we expect the service to run for more than 30 days… regardless…
I uploaded the installer .zip to d:\install, then extracted. There are documentation PDF files in [...]

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May
10
2005

Feeling Down

Despite having gotten my orthodonture off last week,
despite the beautiful loving wife,
despite being the pround parent of a devastatingly cute 2 year old boy and a beautiful 2 month old girl,
despite making a livable wage,
despite owning my own home,
despite not being hungry, at war, in danger…
I am feeling a bit down today. It seems [...]

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May
10
2005

PXE Config for RIS/Unattended Dual-boot

Microsoft RIS and “Unattened” both have support for network-boot installation. With RIS, this is the only supported configuration. With Unattended, this is one of several supported configurations.
A little work needs to be done to get the two system to co-habitate on the same server.
Initially, I had throught to use the “PXELINUX” boot system [...]

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