by Joseph Turley | Mar 24, 2014 | Technology
I’ve been a long time fan of Trend Micro, but when it comes down to it, you may need to uninstall it for several very legitimate reasons, such as purchasing an old laptop with it installed, taking over a client whose previous IT people used Trend Micro and...
by Joseph Turley | Mar 13, 2014 | Technology
As is usually the case, I was working on a project and was trying to understand the alerting capabilities of the Dell iDRAC7. Specifically, I was working on trying to configure SNMP, SNMP Traps, and Email alerting to keep track of critical hardware events. I keep...
by Joseph Turley | Mar 1, 2014 | General
It’s Friday night and I’ve got a sweet tooth for a milk shake and thanks to this weeks’ mail, I have a coupon for a dollar off any size milk shake at Arctic Circle. I don’t enjoy sitting in the drive through and trying to figure out what I want...
by Joseph Turley | Feb 23, 2014 | Technology
One of the more agitating problems I’ve dealt with recently was a project to install Dell’s OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) on a Dell R720xd server running ESXi 5.5. I had installed OMSA at another clients offices just the week before and had no...
by Joseph Turley | Feb 20, 2014 | Technology
One of the more intriguing things that Google Analytics has done in the last year also appears to be one of the most enigmatic. You log into your inbox one morning, and low and behold, there’s an email from Google Analytics that starts with: A snapshot of your...
by Joseph Turley | Feb 2, 2014 | Technology
[callout] This is an article I created almost a decade ago on how to get a Plantronix DSP-400 headset working in Linux and at the time it was very useful. The website it was on has been taken down, so I post this here simply to keep it available in case it helps...
by Joseph Turley | Feb 1, 2014 | Technology
This is an article I created almost a decade ago on how to get Minicom working in Cygwin. I used this information to get Minicom working so I could automate switch configurations and at the time it was very useful. The website it was on has been taken down, so I post...
by Joseph Turley | Dec 11, 2013 | Technology
It can be confusing when you go to log into a computer on your domain and you’re suddenly confronted with the message: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed. Why would you get this message? Typically it happens when the...
by Joseph Turley | Dec 7, 2013 | Technology
I was working on a problem with DirSync not exporting properly today and as my earlier article stated, the fix was to install a new version of DirSync. I had downloaded the latest version of the dirsync.exe file and launched it. Almost immediately, I was greeted with...
by Joseph Turley | Dec 7, 2013 | Technology
In a post earlier today on a DirSync export not synching, I highlighted the need to reinstall DirSync because of a bad version. In the process of doing this though, I had to wade through a bunch of frustrating problems. While upgrading, I wound up having errors that I...
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