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Saturday, August 31, 2013

skydrive pro - another cloud storage?

skydrive pro - another cloud storage?

the skydrive pro is not the consumer skydrive

it used to be MS Office 365 sharepoint mysite.

so you need MS O365 subscription to use it .

skydrive pro client is available on my iphone 4S.

but for windows, there is no standalone download.

it is boundled with certain version of Office 2013 ( office 365)

current version is 25GB size limit, but can purchase more

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

recovering / troubleshooting a windows 2003 server blue screen STOP C000021a

recovering / troubleshooting a windows 2003 server blue screen STOP C000021a , fatal system error

the windows subsystem system process terminated unexpected with a state 0xc0000006

the system has been shut down

windows 2003 server, started to blue screen, upon login, the hard drive thrashes, eventually to blue screen.

tried last know config, no luck

replaced the video card, Network card, no luck

but it can boot to safe mode, and it can boot like normal when there is no NIC configured.

well, more credit to their software guy, eventually found out a 3rd party mail server named MD was crashing the system. once the md is disabled, the system can sort of boot to normal mode.

lesson learned, it's still a process of elimination, if it can boot to safe mode, then disable all start-up items and non-MS services to see what happen next

 

windows XP with a DLINK usb wireless dongle keeps crashing to blue screen, what could be it?

windows XP with a DLINK usb wireless dongle keeps crashing to blue screen, what could be it?

the blue screen is STOP: 0x0000009F

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE

other symptoms like internet explorer acted up weird, un-stable, eventually crashed to blue screen


I had something like this on my home PC ages ago,

the trick is to update windows and passibly drivers. run lots of scandisk and defrag
 

Monday, August 26, 2013

what happens after server 2012 trial expires

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574204.aspx

All evaluation versions are fully functional during the evaluation period, although booting to Safe mode is not available. The Windows Server 2012 Standard and Windows Server 2012 Datacenter editions come with the activation key pre-installed. After the 180-day evaluation period elapses, the server warns you in various ways depending on the edition:
Windows Server 2012 Standard; Windows Server 2012 Datacenter:
  • The following warning appears on the Desktop: Windows License is expired
  • When you log on to Windows, you are prompted with the following options:

    • Activate now
    • Ask me later
  • The system shuts down every hour.
  • The only updates that can be installed are security updates.
  • Event ID 100 from source WLMS “The license period for this installation of Windows has expired. The operating system will shut down every hour.” appears in the Application log.

Sunday, August 11, 2013

enable server 2012 R2 remote desktop remotely

http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=14779

this trick still works with server 2012 R2

use a server 2012 R2 to enable another server 2012 R2 RDP,
copy/paste

The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\fDenyTSConnections value is set to 1 by default to disable remote desktop; editing the value remotely to 0 will enable remote desktop

and you don't have to restart for it to take effect

 

Saturday, August 10, 2013

reveal passwords saved in chrome

reveal passwords saved in chrome

no password revealer needed

goto chrome://settings/passwords and click show

and google is said to not to do more about show