Previously I posted a blog about completely resetting a Foundry ServerIron XL But what if you only want to reset the password? This is how it works.. Connect with a serial cable to the Foundry ServerIron XL. 1) Unplug the Switch 2) Plug the switch back in, and be immediately ready to: 3) Hit b within 2 seconds, to enter into the boot monitor 4) Type: no password boot system flash primary 5) Foundry will boot up, now FastIron> enable No...

When deploying a new Windows XP installation your first task is installing the countless Windows updates. When you wait for Windows XP to check for updates you’ll need a lot of time. To accelerate this process just run the following batch file. @echo on net stop wuauserv REG DELETE “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update” /v LastWaitTimeout /f REG DELETE ...

After editing a English document in OpenOffice 3.2 I noticed there was no English ( VS ) spell checker installed. This easily corrected. Just open Synaptic packet manager and search for “my-spell”. Select the languages that you want to add to the spell checker. Start OpenOffice and open the “spelling and grammar” with the F7 key. Select the language and done.

I tried to make a copy of one of our SharePoint sites. It took some help to figure out how to this. So for the future, lets put it here. The  thing you should check are the version numbers of the original and target SharePoint servers are the same. They MUST be the same. In my case the SharePoint Services 3.0 was updated with SP1. The version number is : 12.0.0.6219 You can check this at “Central Administration, Site Actions, Site...

After restoring a site with AkeebaBackup I got the following error. JError Unable to load Database Driver After some research the configuration.php missed the database information. The following lines were not complete. var $dbtype = ‘mysql’; var $host = ‘xxxxxxxxxx’; var $user = ‘xxxxxxxxxx’; var $db = ‘xxxxxxxxx’; var $dbprefix = ‘jos_’; I filled those lines with my MySql...