by ray | Jan 28, 2010 | IT / Tech News, Mac OS X
From your Mac OS X, go to the top Finder menu > Go > Connect to Server. Then type smb://IP_of_windows_server. Prompt should appear and enter the following: domainusername followed by password That’s it.
by ray | Jan 27, 2010 | IT / Tech News
SQL server installations have been known to be finicky. Most of the time it fails due to a folder permission. So to avoid that headache, when installing SQL server, be sure to use the (Local) System account for all SQL services or else SQL Server will not install...
by ray | Jan 26, 2010 | Wordpress
The distinction between WordPress.com and WordPress.org can cause some confusion for people. Let’s clear it up. WordPress.com is brought to you by some of the same folks who work on WordPress, the open source blogging software. WordPress.com utilizes the same...
by ray | Jan 26, 2010 | Wordpress
If you’re a WordPress.com user you probably already know about how the service automatically sends your posts to Ping-o-Matic! to help promote them for you. Today the Publicize feature gets a major addition: the ability to send your posts to Twitter. You can go with...
by ray | Jan 24, 2010 | Wordpress
Use theme tweaker – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-tweaker/
by ray | Jan 23, 2010 | Mac OS X
It was working fine when I was using Parallels, but it stopped working when I switched to Fusion. I had to go to System Preferences, Sharing > File Sharing. Then on top of my local account (which was all I needed before), I had to add my network domain account...
by ray | Jan 21, 2010 | Wordpress
ou can split the posts of your blog so that only the first part of the post is displayed on the home and archive views. When you do this, a link will be placed directly after your excerpt, pointing the reader to the full content of the article. You can find the insert...
by ray | Jan 20, 2010 | Wordpress
Go to your MySQL Command Line Client Enter password that you used when you set up wordpress. You will see a mysql> prompt. Select wordpress database by typing “use wordpress” or whatever wordpress database name you used. mysql> UPDATE wp_options SET...
by ray | Jan 15, 2010 | IT / Tech News
The problem is simple. I want to display an embedded pdf on a web page. My Sonicwall reports for example only creates reports with the date appended to the file name. I want to accomplish the following: Remove yesterday’s file (date already stripped) Rename...
by ray | Jan 12, 2010 | IT / Tech News
You may have seen a error complaining of a failure and a report server configuration problem. Make sure you are using Integrated Authentication. Next, check your file server permissions. Our network shares allow Network Services so I had to change the Reporting...
by ray | Jan 12, 2010 | IT / Tech News
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSRS10.MSSQLSERVERReporting ServicesLogFiles
by ray | Jan 12, 2010 | HTML / Web
Step 1 Save the PDF you wish to link to on a local drive on your computer. It’s good practice to save all the documents you make available on your website in one location in case you ever have to upload or locate information quickly. Step 2 Upload the PDF to...
by ray | Jan 11, 2010 | Wordpress
Here is the full error Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /home/content/m/f/4/mf4people/html/blog/wp-content/themes/slidette/functions.php on line 146 FTP to your site and delete that theme’s folder (under /wp-content/themes/ThemeName)....
by ray | Dec 19, 2009 | HTML / Web
The Chrome bookmark sync extension saves your bookmarks in your Google Docs.
by ray | Dec 19, 2009 | IT / Tech News
Here are some easy steps: 1) Hold down TV button until all buttons flicker. 2) Hit Power button – now TV button will stay lit. 3) Press Up Arrow to search the TV codes one at a time. 4) Once TV turns On, you have found the right code. 5) To save code, hit the #...
by ray | Dec 19, 2009 | IT / Tech News
Upgrade to the latest beta chrome and you can install extensions such as IE Tab.
by ray | Dec 17, 2009 | IT / Tech News
If you’re anything like me, it can sometimes be difficult to keep a large address book of usually automatically created contacts in order. It’s easy to find contacts in my list that have three or four different entries — one with just an email address, one with a home...
by ray | Dec 11, 2009 | IT / Tech News
Use dropbox — https://www.dropbox.com/
by ray | Dec 10, 2009 | IT / Tech News
– NEW: script repository http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki/Default.aspx?Page=WPScripts&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 – NEW: community on spiceworks (requires registration) http://community.spiceworks.com/group/show/340-powershell – What’s...
by ray | Dec 10, 2009 | IT / Tech News
SAMPLE COMMANDS/SCRIPTS – run command to see which folder is the biggest http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1366742_mem1,00.html dir C:specifyfolder -Recurse | where {$_.psiscontainer} | select name, fullname...
by ray | Dec 10, 2009 | IT / Tech News
GENERAL TIPS – test everything locally in an isolated folder using -whatif at the end of a command. this way, you can see what the results would be if it were run for real. when confident, remove -whatif. – be careful of -recursive because this does a...
by ray | Dec 10, 2009 | IT / Tech News
GUI – POWERSHELL ISE AND POWERGUI – Powershell ISE comes with default powershell installation, good for easily starting remote powershell session on server – PowerGUI Script Editor – I recommend this to create scripts. – PowerGUI –...
by ray | Dec 10, 2009 | IT / Tech News
SETUP/INSTALLATION 1 – install powershell 2.0/windows management framework on local machine and remote servers that you want to manage. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929 – running scripts on a remote machine only works in powershell 2.0 — both...
by ray | Dec 10, 2009 | IT / Tech News
INTRO READING – What is PowerShell? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell – Windows Management Framework (Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929
by ray | Dec 8, 2009 | IT / Tech News
So with a little hunting and SQL queries I found out that SQL Server doesn’t use the network name, it only excepts that as an alias. My SQL Server instance was still named “old_name”. I found that out by running these two queries: 1 sp_helpserver 2 select @@servername...
