Aug/099
Windows: Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error: 0×80300001
Well… all these years of development and Microsoft still can’t get the installation part right. If you have a storage controller or using motherboard RAID it’s quite possible that you see this error message after loading the driver, IF you removed the installation CD and insterted your RAID manufacturer’s driver disk (single CD drive system). It’s likely to happen if you have a USB drive connected to your port as well.
If your driver CD is still in the drive (or USB drive) and Windows CD out on your desk, you won’t be notified properly. Instead, you will see the above error message which was very frustrating in my case. Remember to replace the driver CD with Windows, wait until you hear it spin and then you will notice the Next button is no longer grayed out. It is not safe to assume that Windows would give you a hint. I wonder how much the missing error message was going to cost Microsoft that they decided not to add it.
Frustrating… very unprofessional of Microsoft to say the least.
Aug/090
Outlook: cannot start microsoft office outlook. cannot open the outlook window error message
Start Outlook with /resetnavpane switch. That should fix it.
Jul/090
Misc: Error 500 – Internal server error while editing posts – unable to view wordpress dashboard items
If it’s only happening to a few posts or you can’t see all items/boxes in your dashboard then it’s your php module starving for more memory.
If you’re hosting the site, edit php.ini and add give it more memory. If you don’t know where php.ini is use the following command:
find / -name "php.ini"
Find memory section and dedicate what you want.
If your site is hosted, then create a php.ini file in wp-admin directory, and add the following line:
memory=15MB
If 15 is not good enough try 20 or 30.
Jul/090
Riverbed Steelhead: Purdy kernel panic message :)
So I was playing around with a brand new Steelhead web accelerator appliance. Curiosity made me try to virtualize the darn thing and see if I can get it to work with multiple NICS and without the fancy box. Since nothing is impossible and no one was around to stop me, I created an image of the drive and converted it to a VMware Server virtual appliance… it MUST be a *nix flavor, right? No doubt! Who the heck would ever think of Redmond when it comes to creativity?
I was right because the first thing I ran into was a kernel panic. I decided to screenshot and post it for everyone to see… it’s “slightly” different than a normal kernel panic:
There it is. I leave it to you to figure out why I liked it. To the Riverbed guys: nice touch 
P.S. Don’t ask about what happened after I took care of the panicing kernel… hush!
Jul/093
Linux: vsftpd and symbolic links
vsftpd is all about security, and that’s why you cannot access linked directories through vsftpd with any ftp client. My arguement is that if you know how to use symlinks, or are careful enough not to link directories you don’t want to share then who’s vsftpd to butt in and completely disallow you to use such convenient feature of an OS? Reminds me of Windows Server type security… they block IE by default so that you have to either allow every single site, or disable IE ESC altogether.
Here is my convenient workaround: use mount bind!
mount --bind /sourcedirectory /destinationdirectory
You can either use @reboot cron job to have the directories mounted, or mount though fstab by adding the following line:
/directory-you-want-to-mount /destination-directory none bind
Haa… gotcha, but don’t go too fast! This is mount, not ln and will NOT create a mount point in your destination directory. For instance, if you want to mount /home/share to /home/user/share you will need to create /home/user/share first, then mount. Also keep in mind that if you have a copy or rsync job to copy contents of /home/share AND /home/user recursively, you will create two full copies of /home/share directory. One in /home/share and one in /home/user/share. Exclude one of the directories from your cp or rsync job.
