Software

How to free up space on Windows 2003 server

August 22, 2007
By Andrew Lin

It seems that my windows 2003 servers were frequently running low on storage space in the system partition. That was strange because the only thing I had in the system partition (c:\ drive in almost all cases) were system files for installed by Microsoft Windows 2003 server setup. After some careful research and digging...
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PHP-Nuke 8, how to turn on error reporting

July 5, 2007
By Andrew Lin

To turn on error reporting in config.php by changing Code: $display_errors = false; to: Code: $display_errors = true;
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PHP-Nuke 8, bug, Sorry, too many page loads in so little time!

July 5, 2007
By Andrew Lin

I installed PHP-nuke version 8 on my linux server.  When logged in as admin, upon clicking on froum, I would get an error “Sorry, too many page loads in so little time!”.  After reinstalling the problem still existed.  I posted the problem in the php nuke forum and within days received a reply from...
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How to claim your blog on Technorati

July 4, 2007
By Andrew Lin

The frist thing I did was create a user profile on Technorati,  then find the link that says ‘claim your blog’.  Simply click this link and you will get two options. Quick claim or Post claim, with quick claim you have to submit your userid and password for your blog site.  I do not...
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Exchange 2003 Information Store cannot be mounted

April 4, 2007
By Andrew Lin

Saturday, March 31 2007 I received a call from the tech on call for the weekend at 9 p.m. seeking assistance, the email server was down. Drive E containing the information store and logs was full.  He had deleted all log files to create 6G of empty space, but the information store could not...
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How to change the time in Linux

March 11, 2007
By Andrew Lin

To change the date and time in Linux use the ‘date’ command from the console.  You must be root to do this. On Fedora 4, at the console enter: ‘date -s 16:33′ without the quote.  This should change the time to 4:33 pm.  For more information enter ‘date –help’.
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DST upadate for Exchange 2003 Server and Outlook Client

March 9, 2007
By Andrew Lin

Blame George Bush for this DST chaos, blame Microsoft for coming out with a solution for DST that does not work for Exchange 2003 and Outlook Client.  This reminds me of the y2k bug, but that went smoothly, all patches works.  I fear it is not the same with this DST change, Microsoft the...
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Daylight Saving Time three weeks early and one week late

March 6, 2007
By Andrew Lin

Starting this year 2007, the DST (daylight saving time) will being March 11,  the second Sunday in March, three weeks earlier.  It will end November 4, 2007, instead of October.Why? Because on August 8, 2005 the United States signed the Energy Policy 2005.  This act changed the daylight saving time beginning 2007.  DST will...
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Exchange standard server 2003 problem: IIS Exchange Admin restarting

March 1, 2007
By Andrew Lin

Since late yesterday afternoon my Exchange 2003 sever has been problematic.  The OWA client frequently lost connection and would have to re-authenticate.  Looking at the event log I found repeated error messages, event id 7031 and 7034.  Basically IIS Exchange Admin repeatedly restarted multiple times, SMTP service repeatedly restarted multiple times, and Exchange redirector...
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