Alles, was irgendwie mit Administration zu tun hat
Heute zeigte mir Windows beim Kopieren/Verschieben von Dateien im Windows-Explorer den recht nichtssagenden “Fehler 0x80070057: Falscher Parameter” an: Die Ursache waren zu lange Dateinamen bzw. -pfade. Nachdem ich die betreffenden Ordner umbenannt hatte, konnten sie ohne Probleme verschoben werden.
After many days of trial and error, today I finally managed to automatically log on to my SuSE Linux 11 (SLES11) server with PuTTY using Kerberos authentication by a Windows Server 2008. Here are the exact steps I followed to reproduce the working configuration: Follow the setup described in Michele’s …
As I had to find out today, you cannot set the position of guidelines in PowerPoint from a VBA macro. But if you need a set of accurately positioned guidelines like shown in the screenshot below (exactly 32 vertical guidelines with the same distance between them), it would be almost …
To permanently set Windows environment variables (e.g. PATH) from a (PowerShell) script, you can use setx or Set-ItemProperty like this (for the current user): setx VARIABLE value Set-ItemProperty -Path ‘Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment’ -Name VARIABLE -Value “value” And here is the result:
Java has had quite a few security issues recently. Therefore, it definitely makes sense to enable the Java Updater and to install every Java update right after Oracle releases it. However, on my different Windows (64bit) boxes I could not configure the Java Updater. There was simply no “Update” tab …
I added a new Subversion repository on our Debian webserver today and got the following error messages when committing to it: [Wed Oct 10 …] [error] [client …] mod_dav_svn close_stream: error closing write stream [500, #200029] [Wed Oct 10 …] [error] [client …] Couldn’t perform atomic initialization [500, #200029] [Wed …
When I tried to access a network share on a Windows 2008 server locally (!) today using a DNS alias I configured, I got System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied (Systemfehler 5 aufgetreten. Zugriff verweigert in German): As you see in the screenshot, the shares are enumerated correctly …
I’ve migrated my existing bookmark collection from Scuttle to SemanticScuttle. All it took was these three lines of SQL: insert into semanticscuttle.sc_users (uId,username,password,uDatetime,uModified,name,email,homepage,uContent) (select * from scuttle.sc_users); insert into semanticscuttle.sc_bookmarks (bId,uId,bIp,bStatus,bDatetime,bModified,bTitle,bAddress,bDescription,bHash) (select * from scuttle.sc_bookmarks); insert into semanticscuttle.sc_bookmarks2tags (select * from scuttle.sc_tags);
After installing Windows I always started configuring the same old basic settings: move Desktop, Documents, Music, Videos, Pictures folders to D:\ configure some basic settings in Windows Explorer folder options (e.g. show hidden files, show file extensions) remove Internet Explorer from taskbar and add PowerShell to it Today I set …
In one of my recent PowerShell scripts I needed to find out if certain commands (in my case “svn”, “git”, “ant” and “mvn”) were available or not. I wrote this small function that tries to call the given command and returns whether it is callable. function commandAvailable($cmd, $options) { $error.clear(); …