My Apple iPod Nano 8GB froze when I connected to my HTPC computer system where I had installed iTunes package. To fix that see instruction below:
Press and hold the Menu and Center buttons for at least 6 seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
Archive for March, 2009
Apple: Reset iPod nano 8GB
Friday, March 27th, 2009Server management: Symantec LiveUpdate
Thursday, March 26th, 2009If you are managing Symantec LiveUpdate server and you sized your server diskspace on the save side than you may run into full disk space issues. Example below having the update running for some weeks:
Well it happened once that disk size had 34MB left and Symantec was not updating for weeks…
Today I created and scheduled a script which runs once a week and deletes all files older than 7 days. This script can be used for other files and is very useful to know about. Click here to read the page.
File server: Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
If you are managing a Windows Server 2003 file server than this add-on should be installed.
Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration makes visible only those files or folders that the user has the rights to access. When Access-based Enumeration is enabled, Windows will not display files or folders that the user does not have the rights to access. This download provides a GUI and a CLI that enables this feature.
This is the first time I installed and used this tool myself. Easy to install and no reboot is required of the file server. It cleans the users view and we as system administrators have fewer “security audits” in our event viewers.
Click here to download the MSI setup files.
Software Packaging: Internet Explorer 8
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Here is my script and commands I used to install Internet Explorer 8 with a cmd script. I used this script to perform manual installation but it can also be used to deploy the package with software distribution.
IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe /passive /nobackup /norestart
The script will install IE, without user interaction, create no uninstall package and does not reboot the system. If you want to hide the installation window add “/quiet” to it. For more information click here.
Twitter: TweetIE for Internet Explorer
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 
CloudBerry TweetIE is a Twitter plug-in for IE
CloudBerry Twitter plug-in for IE helps you to post excerpts from the websites you visit with a click of the button and attach a short URL to the source page.
- Select the text on the web pages and tweet it to your friends
- Add link to the source with Chilp.It
- Install in a few minutes
- Download for free
- No registration required
System requirements
- Windows XP/2003/Vista
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
- Twitter account
After I installed IE8 on my Windows XP system and found out this cool plugin for IE. The TweetIE is cool and adds value to my IE installations. Try it out yourself. Click here to download.
Wordpress: Reset Admin password
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
I am not sure when Wordpress started to create the default admin password for us but couple times it happened that I lost my admin account password. There are serveral ways how you can perform the password reset for Wordpress. Click here to read more.
This is my instrcution how I reset my “admin” account password for Wordpress 2.7.1:
- Open a linux shell and run where password is your own one:
echo -n password | md5sum - Open phpmyadmin and open your wordpress database; run following sql (please change the database to yours):
UPDATE ’name-your-database’.'wp_users’
SET ’user_pass’ =’ 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99′ WHERE ’wp_users’.'ID’ =1 LIMIT 1 ; - You can also run mysql; select the database with “use name-your-database;” and run the UPDATE sql from above.
