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How to power on a server via IMPI

Sunday, 2012.06.24 J.D. H. Leave a comment

The following instructions are for a Supermicro mini-itx dual core Atom based machine with IPMI built in 🙂 Load the administrative interface by specifying the IPMI interface’s IP address and entering it in your web browser Example: http://192.168.1.9/ Default login: User: ADMIN Password: ADMIN (both are in all caps) Go to Remote Control -> Power Control menu option Select Power On Server Click the Perform Action button The computer will then power on. 🙂 Top Search Terms:supermicro impi (6)howto power

How to recover missing SABnzbd queue

Friday, 2012.06.22 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Occasionally SABnzbd may totally lose it queued downloads, if that happens you will likely seem something like this in the error logs: When Type Warning 2012-06-18 08:30:54,999 ERROR: Loading C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\queue9.sab failed 2012-06-18 08:30:54,999 ERROR: Loading C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\postproc1.sab failed 2012-06-18 08:30:54,874 ERROR: Loading C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\totals9.sab failed Thankfully, here is a simple solution that will normally recover your queue! Load the SABnzbd web interface Click the ‘Status‘ link near the top left of the screen Choose the ‘Queue repair’ tab Press the ‘Repair‘ button

First Generation Kindle on eBay

Friday, 2012.06.22 J.D. H. Leave a comment

The latest entry in the Bought & Sold series… This is where I list items that I sell on eBay. Simple enough huh? Here we go… Up for auction: 1st generation Kindle Description: this is the replacement Kindle that Amazon sent us after American Airlines killed our original Kindle. It has not been used other than to be turned on, as my wife and I bought an iPad while we were waiting on Amazon to send us a replacement Kindle. Condition: I believe

Annoying AVG Free disk space requirement

Thursday, 2012.06.21 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Tonight I was installing AVG Free on a virtual machine running XP that was setup to only have 10GB of hard drive space. With all the various updates and programs installed there was only about 800MB free space left. Annoyingly AVG Free would not allow an install until 1GB of space was free. 🙁 If AVG actually needed a gigabyte of space that would be one thing. But guess how much space it actually uses? About 100MB. Yes, they are

What is Sam’s Club return policy on iPads?

Wednesday, 2012.06.20 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Sam’s Club: 30-day return policy on iPads While most items at Sam’s Club are covered by a 90 day return policy (with the receipt), for the iPad the return policy is 30 days: Cell phones, tablets, e-readers and GPS must be returned within thirty (30) days of the original purchase and with a receipt. More info: Sam’s Club website [end] Top Search Terms:sams club ipad return policy (37)sam\'s club return policy ipad (36)sam\'s club ipad return policy (20)sam's club return

Grey screen with login, incorrect voucher, start.exe [antivirus info]

Wednesday, 2012.06.20 J.D. H. 15 comments

UPDATE 2012.09.20 commenter Lauralea suggested the following simpler procedure: Reboot Windows (you can power off your machine if necessary) When your computer restarts, enter safe mode by pressing F8 before Windows can load Run malwarebytes (alternate link) to remove the infection Reboot and you should be good to go!* *NOTE: I would recommend performing an additional virus scan after you reboot, just to make sure there aren’t any other viruses/trojans. -JD Original instructions: If you get a grey box like this, then you have a virus infection or

Disable Java Auto Updater on Windows 7 stop pop-up [SOLVED]

Monday, 2012.06.18 J.D. H. 29 comments

Question from FrankT: I have a nice Windows 7 computer that runs great EXCEPT it has a super annoying “Java Auto Updater” popup that occurs every day! I go into the Java Control Panel and uncheck the auto updates box but it always ends up being checked again next time I check 🙁 I am wondering if I have some sort of java auto updater virus??? I am about to go crazy with this, so if I don’t have a

Test of Blogsy

Friday, 2012.06.15 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Testing out the Blogsy iPad app… So far it is pretty cool. Nice photo uploading and integrated browser. I have not been impressed with the (in)ability to easily and seamlessly deal with linking 🙁 Also the featured image implementation is not as straightforward as I’d hoped for. Top Search Terms:blogsy (1)blogsy featured image (1)blogsy for macbook free download (1)blogsy for windows (1)blogsy macosx (1)blogsy windows (1)ipad apps (1)