Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/02
When you do not have DSA.msc installed in Windows 7, you cannot perform the “Active Directory Users and Computers”, which is a very valuable tool to browse/edit a Windows Active directory.
The How to access DSA.msc in windows 7 explains on how to install it, but when your Windows installation is not allowed to add/remove Windows features, you need to download it the .msu, then install it.
The download depends on your Windows service pack. For Windows 7 SP 1, it is here (it is about 230 megabyte):
Download Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with SP1 from Official Microsoft Download Center.
You can download both an x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) version.
–jeroen Install Group Policy and AD Tools on Windows 7.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/01
On an old Windows XP machine srunning SP3, the .NET framework updates provided by MicrosoftUpdate.
One of the affected updates was An update is available for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003: June 2013.
It would throw errors 0x643 (also known as 0x80070643) when installing, even after a clean reboot. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/01
Found out the hard way that DynDNS.org now requires you to perform a web login every 30 days for the free service: Free DNS requires monthly login? – Dyn Community Forum.
Basically I’m looking for a way to either
- host my own dynamic DNS compatible service (I already run normal DNS on 2 domains)
- use another free dynamic DNS service
The biggest problem: I’m using 2 routers that have a list of supported Dynamic DNS services that only partially overlap: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in ASUS RT-N66U, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Tagged: dynamic dns service, software, technology | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/31
Interesting:
Dialogue is a simple Mac application that uses bluetooth to connect your Mac with your phone. It allows you to answer and make normal phone calls over your Mac.
–jeroen
via: Mac App Store – Dialogue.
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/31
I’ve been using a few cloud storage / online backup providers for a while on Mac and Windows now, with the primary goals of
- being able to sync data between machines
- having a backup online
Here are some pros/cons. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Cloud Apps, Development, DropBox, Encoding, Internet, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Unicode | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/31
Wrote a small script that goes into my monthly crontab.
It gets ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.cache into /var/lib/named/named.cache.new, and logs when you need to copy it over into /var/lib/named/root.hint
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Posted in *nix, Development, Linux, Power User, Scripting, Sh Shell, Software Development, SuSE Linux, wget | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/30
A while ago, I needed routines to work with absolute and relative paths on Windows.
These links were very useful:
- The Delphi TPath.IsDriveRooted function (I think it was introduced in Delphi 2010) serves as a IsPathAbsolute function
- Conversion between absolute and relative paths in Delphi – Stack Overflow showing how to use the Windows API functions PathRelativePathTo and PathCanonicalize functions declared in the ShLwApi unit to create AbsToRel and RelToAbs functions.
Thanks Andreas Rejbrand and David Heffernan for the last two!
–jeroen
via: Conversion between absolute and relative paths in Delphi – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | 4 Comments »
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