Meaningless technical tidbit, but if Computer Associates (CA) is good enough for Microsoft’s coders, why not the rest of us? Mark Russinovich in a recent blog posting.
Songs purchased on the iTunes Store can be copied to an unlimited number of computers. However, only five computers at a time can play your iTunes DRM-protected music*.
You can enable a computer to play your purchased music by authorizing it. You can remove a computer from the authorization list by deauthorizing it. Deauthorizing your computer does not erase your music files; it simply prevents your purchased music from playing until you authorize that computer again.
It turns out my encounter with this error was due to a “bad” install of .NET 2.0. I could not perform a security update of .NET 2.0. I ignored the security update error and proceeded to perform the Citrix PS 4.5 install. Near the end of the Citrix server component installation, the installer began uninstalling all of the PS 4.5 server software components. The Citrix error returned after the uninstall was 10001.
In my earlier blog post I described how I uninstalled and reinstalled .NET 2.0 (a requirement for PS 4.5). After I reinstalled and patched .NET 2.0 I was able to perform a satisfactory PS 4.5 server installation.
Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2. When patching the server’s .NET 2.0 for security update – encountered an error message. Rebooted and attempted to patch once again – same error. Tried to uninstall .NET 2.0 from the Add/remove control panel applet. Could not uninstall – another error message.
Found this link (read Daniel’s reply) and then downloaded the utility from this link. The utility performed the “cleanup” after I selected .Net 2.0 from the pull down list. Other .NET versions listed in the utility were 1.1, 2.0. 3.0 and 3.5.
After the cleanup, reboot the server, launch Windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download and reinstall the .NET 2.0 framework. After the install, reboot. Don’t forget to obtain the .NET 2.0 security update after the reboot and then reboot once again for good measure.
Looking for older versions of the free Acrobat Reader (7.x and 8.0)? Begin here and walk the directory tree to find the version you want:
AT&T completed their assimilation of Bellsouth, my home phone service provider for these past 20 years.
My subscriber fees are now increasing. $1.00 a month. Not a big deal but telephone service these days is a commodity and AT&T is still pricing local phone service like they priced their long distance services back in the 1970’s.
I have the AT&T Complete Choice plan and pay additional fees for not listing in the phone directory and privacy director.
With the Complete Choice plan, optional services, Government Mandated charges (taxes) and Surcharges, my subscription phone service is $55 – $56 month. Long distance calls are billed in addition.
I could opt for the $16 month basic service from AT&T, but that includes no caller ID and I have a feeling AT&T would sell my name and number to every tele-marketer that beat a path to their corporate door. Not to mention having to continue paying AT&T surcharges like the $6.50 “FCC Authorized Charge for Network Access”.
With the latest AT&T increase, I decided to look around for other options. Comcast is my business-class ISP provider and it offer similar phone services for $30 per month for 6 months and then increases the fee to $40 thereafter. Vonage is not likely to survive in the long run, Sunrocket has gone belly up, Skype struggled for 2+ days before they solved their “algorithm outage” and Packet8 doesn’t have a great customer service reputation.
The WhichVOIP web site has accumulated user opinions for some of the various VOIP providers. I’ve decided to try out the VoicePulse Local Unlimited +200 service. $15 month (not sure what the Government Mandated charges will be) brings a lot of features (like filters for scraping off tele-marketers and voicemail services) compared to the $56 equivalent features from AT&T. Yes I know that when the power goes out, I won’t get service. So what? Nearly everyone has a cell phone these days. I carry a BlackBerry wherever I go and family members carry Sprint cell phones.
We’ll see how long it takes for delivery of the ATA device and getting the service setup. With a 30 day money back guarantee this is worth a try.
Windows and Linux users have a third party solution for creating and mounting virtual encrypted disks with the utility TrueCrypt. While the developers of TrueCrypt indicate a planned Mac OSX version, it doesn’t appear they’re testing one right now.
As the owner of a spanking new 24″ iMac, I wondered what other encryption utilities were available for the Mac. Guess what? You don’t need a third party utility – you have the ability right now to create encrypted disk images using the OS’s built in utility Disk Utility. Matt at Mac OS X Tips has an excellent step-by-step process.
Encrypt and Hide your Private Files | Finder | Mac OS X Tips
Experienced this problem with HP DL360 servers w/ 2-72GB disks, RAID 1.
After restoring a Windows 2003 DISK image (GHOST image) to the server, able to boot and work with drive C:. Unable to see and access drives E: and F: also thought to have been restored in the DISK image.
Solved by using DiskPart this way:
You can use the command shell to create and edit batch files (also called scripts) to automate routine tasks. For example, you can use scripts to automate the management of user accounts or nightly backups. You can also use the Windows Script Host, CScript.exe, to run more sophisticated scripts in the command shell. You can perform operations more efficiently by using batch files than you can by using the user interface. Batch files accept all commands that are available at the command line. For more information about batch files and scripting, see Using batch files
Works from a command prompt. It extracts files and maintains their target directory structure just like a new install.
