How do I find which partition holds the menu.lst being used at boot time? Not looking for multiple locations , as where the file could be, but where it is definitely to be found. (e.t. partition) Is the file located on partition 1,2, or partition 8 ? The file in /boot/grub/menu.lst was used to display … Read more
We have an application that uses DBF files – users run the application on their own machines and access the data on the server via a share. This application is installed on thousands of sites, with all combinations of Windows 2000/XP and Windows Server from 2000 up to 2008. Some users (on multiple different sites) … Read more
XP seems to be a lot of “fun”, these days with security especially since the security features XP DOES support are being phased out day by day. for all those who want to drop XP there is always the problem that the people wont be able to access the site, especially since Google Prefers HTTPS … Read more
I have a old java application running on an AWS EC2 but a couple of times per week the application is very slow or down and I have to restart the system which is very bad for our clients. It’s an old application and it’s using a lot of the local file system and also … Read more
Is it possible to use Xeon E5450 with 8GB (preferably 16GB) DIMMs of DDR3 Registered Buffered ECC RAM? I checked Intel’s Spec page for Xeon E5450 and Wikipedia Xeon#Harpertown Harpertown spec table Information paragraph None explicitly mention ECC (specifically DDR3 ECC) with regard to Harpertown Xeon. However the information paragraph does mention that the Seaburg … Read more
I have a very old legacy server running Debian 6.0.10, from which I’m gradually moving things to Debian 10 on a fresh server. There haven’t been any real issues, although I’m well aware there may be vulnerabilities. So as a temporary security measure I thought I’d install ufw while the work proceeds (slowly). However, it … Read more
I have HPE ProLiant gen 10 server with 8 drives. If I use legacy boot mode, but there is nothing in legacy boot order setting. And server tries to boot just from the ethernet. I have installed grub on hard drives and need to boot from them. Please any idea what to do? Some kind … Read more
I have a legacy application that I honestly do not know a whole lot about running on Windows 2000. Sometimes printing is slow. It creates a file at a remote location (I will call this location B) and then prints it. In order to create this file, the user has to mount a network drive … Read more
Please can you show me where I can download the latest Version of VMWare Tools for the following Client: Server is Windows 2003 32 bit with VMWare Server 1.x (Yes, I know 1.x is old. We will upgrade later soon but not now.) Client is Windows 2003 32 bit I could not find the installer … Read more
JUST THIS MONTH, we have started getting reports from a number of very stable clients that MrxSmb event id 50 errors keep appearing in their system event logs. Otherwise, they do not appear to have any networking problems except that there is a critical legacy application which seems to either be generating the MrxSmb errors … Read more
