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I had a problem with cron not running after upgrading from 4.7 to 6.2 (with a hop thru 5.x). The log kept showing the error "Cron run exceeded the time limit and was aborted.". I could kick off the cron.php script, but it would always come right back with the error.

I checked php.ini it allowed longer running scripts, so the error was spurious.

I upgraded to the latest version of Drupal and installed a nifty new theme. Let me know if you have any problems or see any errors.

The Grand Rapids Press had a nice article on the 100th anniversary of Converse.

I love Converse! (I have 4 pair, but my immediate family has about 10 pair.)

I had several users, including me, having problems with Outlook not shutting down. Many copies would be left running. This used up a lot of memory and would result in messages not being delivered as Outlook fought with itself and wouldn't get or send messages, until all but one copy was running.

Most of the time, when I restarted Outlook, it would force a repair of the Outlook PST.

The reason for the hang was pretty simple, but it took several days of debugging to find it...

I usually work in Linux when I'm building and mounting ISO images, but occasionally I need to do so from Windows XP.

Microsoft provides an unsupported utility to do so. The "Virtual CD Control Panel" is not that friendly to install, so you'll need some skills, but it works rather nicely once you get it working and it is FREE. Just follow the README.TXT directions and you should be OK.

I needed to be able to monitor a RAID controller on an Ubuntu Linux server running with a Dell PERC 4/SC RAID controller with SCSI drives. Dell does not support this configuration, but they do provide some RPM packages that can be modified to run on Ubuntu. Here's how I did it...

I had to install GimpShop for a client. They run in a reduced rights environment (why isn't everyone running their XP network that way?), which can be a little problematic with some software installations. Stupid software will require the user that will be using the software to have administrator rights to not only install the software, but to run it.

I'll cut gimpshop some slack because it is really just a hack to get a cross platform image manipulation software package to run under Windows and look like photoshop, but still, the installer could have been a lot smarter.

I installed the software as administrator for the domain and it seemed to work OK.

However, I ran into two issues...

I have a client that uses a self-signed certificate to allow SSL communications via "Outlook Web Access" (OWA), https exchange transfer, and a web folder (WEBDAV). They are their own CA (certificate authority) and generated their own certificate for the web server. When the server certificate, which is only good for 2 years, expired, these applications stopped working.

I was working to fix it and was just looking around at my options when I "accidentally" renewed the CA certificate. This was due to expire in 2036, but was now due to expire in 2038. This seems to have lead to not only the users' applications not working, but prevented much debugging information from showing up.

The clients don't really get much of an error other than "operation failed" or a dns error in the browser. If you hit refresh after the dns/connection error, you'll see the ssl lock shows up in the browser and the IE flag starts spinning, but Internet Explorer (IE) seems to hang and nothing happens. No error message appears.

It took quite awhile of messing around to finally figure out a solution.

First of all...

I found a great article here about how to move a subversion repository to another server and it saved me some time. So, basically, here is what it says;

I had a client with a Ubuntu 6.06 server install primarily running just samba and a few other apps. I had it set to automatically update with all security updates at 6am each morning.