Thursday, 23. November 2006
I’ve suddenly started having an issue with a couple of shares on a Windows XP Pro machine and being able to mount them with the Mac. I’ve been actively using these shares for well over a year in exactly the same fashion and it just kind of stopped, I have no idea if there’s any action performed that would have caused this.
Basically, what I got from my Mac when I attempted to mount one of these problematic share is a “connecting to server sorry the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -41)”. When attempting to mount the share via command line the process hung. In searching I found the following error on my XP machine Event Logs.
Product: Windows Operating System
Event ID: 2011
Source: Srv
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: EVENT_SRV_IRP_STACK_SIZE
Message: The server’s configuration parameter “irpstacksize” is too small for the server to use a local device. Please increase the value of this parameter.
The times seemed to match my mount attempts. Recall that this only occured on some of my shares, two out of 10+ on the machine. Further research gave the following from Microsoft.
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Tuesday, 14. November 2006
November 16th, being the third Thursday of November, is the release of the Nouveau wines!Ă‚ Google Beaujolais Nouveau, find and event, celebrate and enjoy.Ă‚ The beauty of the Nouveau events is that this wine is truely meant to be, well, let me quote a gal I met who runs a winery…she says that “…the Nouveau is meant to drank and enjoyed, not over intellectualized.”
Tuesday, 7. November 2006
I’m just too damned excited. I’m going to the Installation and Configuration course for ESX 3 in Columbus, OH next month! When I pass the exams afterwards I’ll be the one and only VCP in my company.
Today, life is good.
On a not so related note, I published the iFolder VM I made on VMware’s site yesterday and my traffic increased to 52 Gig yesterday. 52 Gig would make it about 52 Gig more then my average. 
Sunday, 15. October 2006
As it seems to be usual with Fedora, doing anything with vmware was not completely smooth. Here’s what I found needed to be done to my stock installation of Fedora Core 5. I’m assuming some Linux mojo as I’d think one would have to have some to have the aspiration to do this… Yell if I’m incorrect.
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Thursday, 21. September 2006
So here I sit trying to make a Fedora Core 5 virtual machine, VMware Workstation in my case. Yes, this is what I do for fun…call it pathetic and I’ll kick your ass!
Onward, the installation of Fedora Core failed to recognize the VMware virtual SCSI disk. Solution is as follows:
1) At the warning prompt select “Add Additional Drivers”
2) A dialog will appears that will list the current devices, select “Add Device”
3) Select “BusLogic MultiMaster SCSI” Driver
4) Continue on to a successfull Fedora Core VM installation
Thursday, 21. September 2006
I recently ran across a mysql database I needed to do some work on only the root password didn’t seem to be recorded anywhere. On goes the hunt for password recovery solutions and here is what I found that did the trick.
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
# mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables &
# mysql -u root
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD(“NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD”) where User=’root’;
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
# mysql -u root -p
Thursday, 21. September 2006
Truely funny comment from Tom Limoncelli as seen in Google video
“I’m always seeing advertisement, that say, ya know, ‘get out of that old, boring routine’. I’d like to get into that old, boring routine. I’m a sysadmin, I want one boring day. One boring day when the manual is correct, when the servers stay up, where everything just works. That would be the perfect boring day. And Then I’d be able to work on my projects, because projects are exciting. Then you’d get to play with the newest software, the newest hardware. I want lots of things to become boring so I can work on the exciting stuff”
Saturday, 16. September 2006
First, this is finally what this website is about. Here I get to detail my ongoing struggles with the world of technology for my own records. If somebody else happens to find this useful all the better.
I just reinstalled Debian Sarge on my workstation. I had some things in mind that kind of necessitated a full reinstall including repartitioning my drives. I did a net install and then immediately upgraded to Etch. Prior to upgrading all was working well but afterwards X Windows would no longer come up. The error was a “preinit failed for input device” on the mouse.
The solution, when I finally found it, was to modprobe and then insert into /etc/modules psmouse and mousedev. This fixed the problem completely and as a perk I even have a functional mouse wheel on my Logitech mouse.
Now, I often don’t install X Windows on some of my Debian boxen but I’ve got a plan for this one. I’m going to start by installating VMWare Workstation and an XP machine on that. Once I’m comfortable I may move to VMWare Server (the free version of what used to be VMWare GSX server). That’s a whole nother story though.
Monday, 3. April 2006
I absolutely hate Microsofts Just-In-Time debugging.
I’m rebuilding some servers for the company I’m leaving in less than two weeks. One of the machines is going to running both SQL Server 2005 and ColdFusion. For some damed reason the Just-In-Time debugger that installs without permissions as a component of Visual Studio 2005 believe that the CF installer is throwing an exception and refuses to let the installer continue. In the spirit of documenting stuff the following registry keys had to be removed to disable the debugging.
*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger
*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft.NET\Framework\DbgManaged\Debugger
Now I never have to see that dialog box again for stuff that will continue to work when it’s handling it’s own exceptions…
I’ll say it again, Fucking Microsoft.
