Archive for October, 2010
ASPMail not working on Planet Online hosted website
Posted by Mitch in code, Web Development on October 27, 2010
A client noticed they weren’t receiving any more emails from their website form so I tested out the ASPMail function and it was throwing an error: Mail send failure. Error was Cannot create file This error is due to an issue with the TMP or TEMP directory on your IIS server. Refer here for more details. [...]
M5312 emachine laptop wireless internet not working
There’s probably a hundred reasons why your wireless internet wouldn’t work on this laptop, but my client found that they had accidentally turned the radio off. To turn the radio back on boot the laptop to Windows and press Fn+F2 (you may have to hold it, I’m not sure).
Error noise: USB connect disconnect sound
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on October 23, 2010
Setup: Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP2 Quad core 4GB For no apparent reason, this machine started experiencing a recurring error: The system plays the sounds of a USB device disconnecting and then connecting, one after the other and sometimes several sets in a row. There are no viruses or malware on the machine and it makes [...]
Bulk delete wordpress posts
Posted by Mitch in Uncategorized, Web Development on October 20, 2010
I had a project a while back which involved adding thousands of text files to a WordPress account as new posts. In the process of testing the Import step using CSV Importer I would have the full import fail because some of the files were corrupt or of a different format or invalid characters which I [...]
External monitor tv screen purple no dvd video
I was watching an interesting documentary on Nikola Tesla the other night in my living room and got tired so I moved it to the bedroom. When I loaded it into a laptop and tried to play it, the video was playing just fine on the laptop, but was purple on the external tv screen. [...]
Print Spooler service keeps shutting down after power outage
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on October 19, 2010
If you just had a power outage and your print spooler service is having trouble staying started, then check the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SPOOL\PRINTERS folder…if there’s anything in there then remove it and then restart the Print Spool service. Should clear right up. Errors received: Event ID: 1000 Faulting application spoolsv.exe, version 5.2.3790.4759, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.2.3790.4455, [...]
Cannot Read Disc message firmware update blu-ray player
Tried to update a Sony Blu-ray home theatre system to ver.009(10-7-2010) and it didn’t like any of the burned CDs or DVD’s I used. It kept saying “Cannot read disc” or didn’t recognize it in general and so I was forced to figure out another way. – The easiest solution to this issue is to [...]
How to setup network bridge windows 7 xbox live xbox 360
There’s a couple ways you can bridge or share network connections in Windows 7. This is the way that worked for me: 1. Connect your computer or laptop to the device (Xbox) with an ethernet cable. 2. Turn on Sharing on your wireless (Open Network Connections, rt-click the wireless connection and goto Properties–>Sharing tab. Check [...]
Delete personal information from Google cache
First of all, please note that Google isn’t the only search engine out there and it isn’t the only search engine that uses cached copies of pages. Also be aware that if you don’t take care of the offending cached copy soon enough, the information may be cached in the Way Back machine, which is [...]
Format text Justia.com MS Word macro remove line breaks
One of my users was pulling some text from a legal website (www.justia.com) and asked me if I could help her paste it into MS Word. I thought it would be as simple as paste special to delete the formatting, but that doesn’t really cut it here (pun intended). Pasting as formatted text(RTF) is the [...]