NZ Tekonverse

Some weeks ago I may have mentioned that the upgrade Vista Business DVD supplied to NZ schools is non-bootable. When I made enquiries, I found we could not get a bootable DVD from Microsoft on this program. However, a bit of experimentation has led me to discover that I can do a clean install of…

Ever heard of “One Laptop Per Child”? This is an international initiative to deliver affordable, rugged computers to developing nations for children to use. The XO1 laptop has just got into production. The product will naturally be of interest to schools and other educational institutions due to the reduced cost and the design of the…

Existing users of Ghost will be most familiar with the process of creating boot packages using the built in wizard tool. These packages load a version of MS-DOS and the 16 bit Ghost client. Typically they have to be customised for the specific type of network card in the host machine. On some modern PCs,…

Outlook 2007 has one big improvement above all others if your staff connect to an IMAP server, and that is built-in support for storing Sent messages on that server. This means your users have only one Sent folder that is the same for Outlook, and for any web mail system you may have, that can…

These are issues I’ve spent only the minimum amount of time on lately, yet they demand resolution. The MrxSmb errors followed me when I took the PCI Gigabit card (DLink) out of my old PC and transferred it to my "new" one. After finding there was still a problem I switched to the onboard Intel…

Maybe if you’re like me, you changed the time manually on your three servers a week ago when Daylight Saving started, and thought no more of it until you logged in this morning and discovered all the servers had reset themselves to an hour later than the current time, as well as your desktop… This…

Back in July I wrote about these errors and how they were happening because the DNS zones were not configured properly on one of our servers. Well, today I was reviewing the event log on a desktop PC and I just happened to notice a resurgence of the errors. After all being quiet for the…

I’m pleased to have discovered that Windows Live Writer can be used to compose messages in my newly established site support blog. I installed WordPress for this purpose and have managed to get it running properly after going through various new learning curves. These involved IIS6, MySQL and PHP as well as WordPress. Often in…

PROBLEM: When setting up a new account in WLW Beta 3 for a WordPress 2.2 blog, the following error is returned: Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlog method received from the weblog server was invalid. / Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server CAUSE: A file loaded in xmlrpc.php is unable to…

Now for MySQL. After a lot of looking at documentation I installed MySQL Administrator, a GUI tool which is freely available from the main MySQL website. I had earlier installed the MySQL DBMS which I downloaded from their site last week. Working with PHP is not at all new to me, but both WordPress and…