Thoughts on many things
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Firefox – Copy tabs
One of the reasons why I absolutely love Mozilla Firefox is the fact that the system of tabs is so excellently implemented. At times I want to be able to copy a tab. There are two simple ways of doing this: Method one: mouse By simply holding down the Ctrl-button on our keyboard while…
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Unetbootin – Run Linux from a USB thumb-drive
Many of you will be familiar of the concept of Linux Live CDs. For those of you who are not, I’ll say this: Most Linux distros are these days installed using a Live CD. You enter the CD into the CD-ROM drive, start the computer, and there you go. Your computer boots from the CD,…
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Spacemonger – find out what’s clogging up your hard drive
Ever seen that your hard drive is nearing full, and been unsure what files are to blame? In my job as a desktop service technician, I’ve many times been called upon to find out what is causing a client’s computer to be running slowly, or simply what’s making a software install fail. One of the…
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Importing Facebook Events to Google Calendar
Do you use Google Calendar? So do I. Do you use Facebook? Me too. Ever been annoyed that you couldn’t easily import Facebook events to your Google Calendar? So did I. Turns out, it is easy. Here’s how: Log on to Facebook Go to Events Click the ‘Export Events’ link at the top, then…
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A quicker PDF reader
A while ago a good friend of mine introduced me to a nifty little program. We were talking about the fact that both of us had a plethora of pdf-files, and were annoyed at the fact that Adobe Reader not only takes very long to load, but also takes time to render the files. …
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Resolving "An Error Was Encountered While Opening A Window" errors
Lotus Notes has a plethora of more or less (usually the latter) legible and understandable error messages. One of them I encountered the other day. The situation is as follows: a client of mine told me Notes had crashed, and she was now unable to restart Notes due to a rather cryptic error message: “An…
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Thinclients: Resolving Protocol driver error
As I have previously mentioned, my employer uses thin clients in some locations. They’re cheap, and they usually just work. They are, of course, dependent on a network connection to the server to work. When the server connection is not there, for whatever reason, the error they serve us is the somewhat cryptic “Protocol driver…
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Disabling IPv6 or running IPv6/IPv4
If you’re running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 with DHCP, you’ll be likely to encounter problems if you don’t set up IPv6 properly. The fix is of course to set up IPv6 properly on the server, but there are a few workarounds if you can’t do that. You can’t uninstall IPv6, but you can,…
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Quickly and simply troubleshoot networks from the command line
I love using command line tools, especially for troubleshooting networking. There are two simple commands you need to know; ipconfig and ping. Here’s a simple guide to finding where the problem : Open the command line by opening the “run” dialog box, entering cmd and clicking OK Ensure that the TCP/IP service is running…
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Find the DiskCleanup utility easily
I’m sure you know the problem: you’ve used someone elses computer, and want to remove your traces. One of the easiest ways of doing that is to use the DiskCleanup utility, however locating it isn’t exactly the easiest thing. Luckily, it’s pretty simple to initiate the utility from the Run dialog; simply enter the…
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Finding your (serial) keys
You know the situation; you’ve got problems with your computer, and need to reinstall it. However, you’ve got loads of software installed, and need the serial keys for them. What you need is a keyfinder. There are many out there, but the one I’ve found to be most useful is called the Magical Jelly Bean…