http://abortretryfail.net Tech articles written by crazy ninja flying monkeys. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:58:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Problem 1: I set the Office SharePoint Server Search Service to use a dedicated web front end computer for crawling. After doing this, the server I set to be dedicated for search crawling (indexing) started throwing this error: Event ID: 6482 Source: Office ... http://abortretryfail.net/2008/12/17/sharepoint-search-service-and-the-hosts-file/ Run the following from a command prompt: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 I use this usually after someone has removed NIC’s from a server and not reset their configuration prior to removal causing pesky messages about another nic in the same machine using the same IP or gateway. http://abortretryfail.net/2008/08/29/show-non-present-devices-in-device-manager/ In my current job I have been tasked with building and maintaining a few DB2 servers. Until now I have never used DB2 so I thought it would be wise to get some training. I checked out IBM's website and found that they have some nice materials to get you ... http://abortretryfail.net/2008/08/26/db2-cert-training/ I recently installed the latest pidgin for windows which comes bundled with GTK.  One of the features that I require in an instant message program is that I can start typing someone's name and it find the contact based on what I'm typing.  In the latest pidgin this is broken, ... http://abortretryfail.net/2008/07/25/only-able-to-type-one-letter-when-searching-for-a-contact-in-pidgin/ I ran into an issue where I needed to recreate a Shared Service Provider for a SharePoint environment. The original admin setup the SSP admin site inside of an existing Web Application/Site Collection. Besides manageability, this kind of configuration can cause problems with the search provider and mysites. There are a ... http://abortretryfail.net/2008/07/07/removing-sharepoint-parent-ssp/ There is an interesting article that goes over some of the real requirements of setting up a cloud environment at your corporation.  One of the things I hate about most cloud discussions is the marketing fluff that goes along with them.  This article talks about the real hardware involved in ... http://abortretryfail.net/2008/06/24/wait-there-are-real-servers-in-cloud-computing/ The people over at Data Center Knowledge dug up a video demonstrating a gas fire suppression system.  Cut to 40 seconds in to see the system go off and skip the marketing fluff.  http://abortretryfail.net/2008/06/24/fire-suppression-in-the-data-center/ According to InfoWorld Red Hat will be open sourcing their Red Hat Network software.  This should be great for the community but I hope it doesn't cut too much into the profits for Red Hat. I can imagine that soon CentOS will release a RHN server to easily manage ... http://abortretryfail.net/2008/06/18/red-hat-open-sourcing-rhn/ I recently installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my home computer and ran into a problem when I would switch between my user and my wife's.  After we were both logged on and I performed the switch, it would go to a "white" screen.  Searching around, this is a known issue.  ... http://abortretryfail.net/2008/06/14/ubuntu-switch-user-white-screen/ I ran into this problem today, I have a user account on a FreeBSD machine that needs the ability to rsync and scp files to the server. I really didn't see any need for the user to have full ssh access to the machine. So I headed over to the ... http://abortretryfail.net/2008/06/13/freebsd-limiting-users-to-only-scp-rsync/