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Can Dell PE860 (power edge 860) run 3TB drives on the motherboard SATA?

Mar

2013

I found out the answer is yes! I have hooked up 2 3TB drives into the onboard SATA and was able to successfully raid 1 them within Ubuntu 12.10. I was not able to do this with the Perc raid controller, as it only saw 2.2TB.

Microsoft Office 2013 PRO ISO/IMG Direct Downloads

Jan

2013

I needed these for a retail key I received from my employer for $10, so these were useful, as I did not want to install the cheap software they had to go and download the IMG. 64bit: http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/2/9/C/29CC45EF-4CDA-4710-9FB3-1489786570A1/OfficeProfessionalPlus_x64_en-us.img 32bit: http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/6/2/662A612F-B3E9-4A94-9396-C92F656BA100/ProjectProfessional_x86_en-us.img

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted – MySQL error – PHPMyAdmin

Jan

2013

I had a client trying to import a 200M zip file to phpmyadmin to import into his MySQL database, he kept receiving this error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 201380904 bytes) in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/libraries/zip_extension.lib.php on line 65 It ends up that phpmyadmin is using its own php.ini config, and ...

Samsung 830 256GB in raid 0 with Z77 chipset and TRIM

Oct

2012

Got my new drives, two Samsung 830 256GB I then dropped them into an intel ROM raid 0 with Intel RST 11.6 drivers and I get some pretty great looking benchmarks AND TRIM! These were running on my Asus P8Z77-I DELUXE ITX motherboard. The benchmarks speak for themselves. If anyone would like me to run ...

How To Install Windows 7 from a USB Key with ISO links!

Oct

2012

I’ve been reading a few methods to install Windows 7 from an ISO to a jump drive, or DVD. The best method to do it from a Windows computer is to obtain Microsoft’s own software for the task : http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe Install that, and point it to the jump drive you want to use (it will ...

Temporary profile creates in Windows 7

Sep

2012

I had a user who logs in with a domain account and creates a temporary directory every time he logs in. This is what I did that fixed it : 1. Log on to the system by using an administrative user account other than the user account that is experiencing the problem. 2. Back up ...

The Best Way to Farm Act1 Inferno – Diablo III 1

Jul

2012

1) start the quest “The Imprisoned Angel : Enter the Cursed Hold” 2) First take the waypoint to The Old Ruins and check for “Dark Cellar” which has a low chance to have a rare monster or treasure goblin. The chance has been nerfed from when it was being farmed regularly but there is still ...

Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 MC7750 4G Verizon Issues – 2101 Error 6

Jun

2012

We have a few new Toughbook CF-53′s in that occasionally get the 2101 error within Verizon Access. I was wondering if anyone else was having these issues? I am in touch with Panasonic, and Verizon on trying to get a permanent fix, but it seems to be very intermittent right now. If I get a ...

FPS stuck at 50 in Diablo 3

Jun

2012

I am not sure what was happening, but every time I would join a new game, hit CTRL + R (gives you ingame FPS) it would be locked at 50FPS, even with the limiter at 61, or even off. To fix it, I had to do the following : For reference, I have an i5 ...

Large ntuser.dat files in server 2003 – HP driver issue

May

2012

Originally our terminal service server ran out of space, wondering why, we went to investigate and saw that ntuser.dat files were about 400MB or more. We also noted that new users logging in were taking 15-20 minutes to actually load into the terminal service the first time. What we eventually found out was that the ...