November 2006 - Posts

• Sychronize Outlook calendar between two PC's for free

  A very common problem with no "free" solution. If you come across this post, you've undoubtly read and re-read the Slipstick article . With the help of Jake Ludington's blog , I came across a nifty freeware plugin to sychronize an Outlook Read More... Posted Friday, November 24, 2006 11:57 AM by jeff | 2 Comments

• "Un-remember" IE download setting

  Have you ever accidentally unchecked the "Always ask before opening this type of file" checkbox when downloading a file using IE? Wish you could change it back so that IE will ask you where to save to the file instead of automagically opening Read More... Posted Friday, November 24, 2006 9:36 AM by jeff | 0 Comments

• Retrieving Data from a SqlDataSource Control

  There are plenty of examples of how to create a SqlDataSource control in ASP.NET 2.0 and how to then bind that control as the datasource for another control, but they're aren't any that will show you how to retrieve data from the control to use Read More... Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 4:20 PM by jeff | 8 Comments

• Microsoft Update causes 100% CPU for svchost.exe process

  <UPDATE>John Bigg brought to my attention a hotfix Microsoft recently released for Windows Installer 3.1 v2: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089 that fixes this specific issue. Thanks John!</UPDATE> You may have noticed since switching Read More... Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:23 AM by jeff | 3 Comments

• Port Trunking in Cisco IOS

  Port trunking is the process by which ports are designated as common uplink ports to carry traffic from multiple VLANs across the same physical cable. In the following example, we enable trunking on an etherchannel group to carry specific traffic from Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:37 PM by jeff | 0 Comments

• Port Aggregation in Cisco IOS

  Port aggregation (in the cisco world known as channelling) combines two ports for increased bandwidth and link redundancy for connecting switches together. Router# configure terminal Router (config)# interface range Gi0/45-46 Router (config-if)# channel-group Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:34 PM by jeff | 3 Comments

• WLBS Causes Service Failure on Windows 2003 Server

  You may receive a "One or more services failed to start" error message when booting a Windows 2003 Server installation which may or may not be accompanied by an Event ID 7000 in the system event viewer. This is caused by the WLBS service. To Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:51 PM by jeff | 0 Comments