If you receive the below error on Windows XP then your boot partition has likely become corrupted for some reason. I would suggest that immediately following repairing the boot partition that you backup all of your important files or all of your files if possible because a lot of the time if the boot partition…
NTFSResize is a very useful tool on Linux when you also have Windows computers in your household. I have had many NTFS hard drives fail over time and its nice to plug them into a Linux server and gain basic information about them. A brief description from the man page is located below and if…
The btmp log keeps track of failed login attempts. I have seen on a default linux setup with logrotate configured where the btmp log is left out of rotation and eventually grows out of hand. So first you want to make sure that the btmp log is rotated using logrotate with the below information. Log…
When mounting remote NTFS network shares to a Linux server smbmount used to be used. This command is not used any longer and has been replaced by mount.cifs. If you had previously been using smbmount you should switch to using mount.cifs instead. If you attempt to use smbmount with a newer kernel version you will…
Sometimes it is necessary to hard reset a Plantronics Voyager 510 bluetooth headset if it stops responding to button presses or if you need to start pairing with another bluetooth device again. Below is an image describing the four buttons that can be pressed on the PLT-510 headset. These buttons can be pressed in various…
I had some of the Microsoft Vista Dream Scenes that I wanted to convert to screen savers but I couldn’t figure out a good way to do this in Windows Vista without installing a third party application. I went through a lot of shareware applications that were trying to suck me in to spend money…
The error in the title causes all pages on a ZenCart installation to display this followed by a SQL select statement. The error is related to the Ultimate SEO URL’s ZenCart addon. The issue could be caused by one of two things which are the SEO URL cache is corrupted for some reason or the…
Restoring your Outlook 2007 dictionary additions is easy but you just need to make sure you can recover the data or you back the proper file on a regular basis. The additions to the Microsoft Outlook 2007 dictionary are added when you Spell Check an email and instead of correcting the spelling you click the…
I recently started using Evernote to store all of the notes I take on a daily basis across platforms. Evernote allows me to take notes and sync between numerous computers, my T-Mobile Blackberry Curve, and my iPod Touch. One thing that Evernote lacks is a solid method for accessing my notes when I am out…