User Licensing Gotchas

Got a call from a client today who was unable to get his laptop to connect to his wireless network. The client has a standard Linksys WRT54G which is sitting behind a WatchGuard SOHO router.  (The WatchGuard predated my involvement …

SpamAssassin has Y2K + 10 Bug

Just a quick heads up, but Spam Assassin (which we use for filtering here at Jephens) has a mis-formed filtering rule which considers 2010 to be a “grossly in the future” and therefore can’t be a valid date. This might …

Virtual Floppy Saves The Day

A client has an oldish Dell Dimension 8400 with an Intel RAID card that requires you to “Press F6 to add Storage Drivers” when trying to repair Windows. This also means that UBCD4Win (my preferred repair tool) also doesn’t recognize …