Category: How-to
Create your own cross-platform backup server
Here’s an interesting read and how-to on LifeHacker.com showing you how to build a backup server that supports multiple OSes using Restore, which is open source and one that features a web admin-like page for backup management.
Web 2.0: Gray out the screen
This snippet grays out the screen and allows you to create a modal environment. A gray out is useful for creating a DHTML dialog box, or showing off a picture or video. While a gray out is active, most interactive elements on the page (links, etc.) are inactive – you’ve probably seen this on the…
Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed
Here’s an interesting article that Bill Gates wrote for the BBC News web site, that talks about the skills one needs to succeed in any career.
PsTools communication errors
My friend Anthony was getting “access denied” and “logon failure” errors when trying to to run psexec (from one of the PsTools suite) from an XP machine on a domain to an XP machine in a workgroup. It was something similar to: PsInfo 1.34 – local and remote system information viewerCopyright (C) 2001-2002 Mark RussinovichSysinternals – www.sysinternals.com…
Vista’s Windows Update not working in a domain
If you are using Windows Vista in a domain, you may find that Windows Update doesn’t work (it will say something like “No updates available”). This is because when a computer is added into a domain, a registry key/policy is automatically added to connect to a WSUS server for updates. So to resolve the issue,…
Vista error: "Trust relationship between this workstation & primary domain failed"
My Vista lab box presented this error when I tried to login into my company’s domain after several months of not doing so: Trust relationship between this workstation & primary domain failed I suspected my [Vista] installation was using cached domain information to login, which was the case and why it was being denied access. …