My Life Tech Notes

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Found a great solution for fixing a CD-ROM hardware missing in XP at http://sillydog.org/forum/sdt_9200.php.  Many thanks to the dude at sillydog.org.

Here is the breif version:

CD-ROM shows in Device Manager with yellow exclamation. Error code 41 or 39.

To fix this problem, I performed the following:

Start Registry Editor (Start, Run and type in regedit then click)

Find “UpperFilters” and “LowerFilters” (and “UpperFilters.bak” “LowerFilters.bak“, if they exist) value under the following key in the registry, and delete it:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Quit Registry Editor.

Reboot.

NOTE: You might need to reinstall any CD recording apps you have, if they start to not work completely, after doing this.

Oh oh oh …. found a problem with a cable built must be eight years ago. Pinning was wrong. Fixed it and the connection works just fine

Found where my image upload was mis-configured. I have the right write permissions on the folder I was uploading to …but the path in WP was wrong. I do not remember changing the path but took a look at Settings –> Miscellaneous –> Uploading and set things right there.

Have choir practice so gotta go!! cya.

OK so I’m working feverishly learning WordPress.  Having trouble uploading images using the “Add Media” above.  Also trying to hunt down so tutorials on how it works instead of just following my nose into the application

I want to be competent in WP  and use it for my church website as well as my County Republican site and for customers.  To be a resource for WP solutions.  Will let you know how it goes.

Well after the golf fun I settled in to get a clients computer fully installed and upgraded for their workday on Monday. Did not actually get it in place for then until 11:00 am due to all the apps needed and printers. Still hoping that all was well and little will need to be done to complete the recovery process.

A DNS Poisoning issue has been discovered and everyone running a server needs to get their DNS updated ASAP (3 weeks ago) so I spent some time last night making sure all was well with my systems. Apparently end-users may also need to run updates. This means that you should be sure to allow Windows Updates and Mac OS X Software Updates to do what they need to do.

OK, as a result of the adjustment to the mail server, during which I attempted to get MailScanner running again (its been disabled for quite a while), A number of messages in the old MailScanner queue (from Feb?) were delivered and also if you happened to leave mail on the server for a few days you received another copy of those left. What fun, eh? Meanwhile MailScanner proceeded to put excessive loads on the server slowing it to a crawl. In the end I disabled MS again and all is back to normal. Will need to clear the cache tonight so the mail will be delivered and this (the mail part) won’t happen again in the future. Annnd I need to explore why MS dominates the server when it it started up.

A few other anomalies made for some interesting exploration. dovecot, vsftp, mysql, and httpd. It was good, I need the refresher……And finally I decided to get this blog going using WordPress.

Whoa 1st Post is a Tech Post!

I have been working with Wes at Desticam.com in maintaining his webcams on Orcas Island. He is using some nice cams from stardot-tech.com. So I have been adjusting and configuring them out over the last few days. The goal of course to be familiar with the system, but for the system never to need me. So…. I need to get it working well and documented well so I can remember how to access and resolve issues quickly and efficiently for him.

Anyway, I found a camera with ClearWire DNS 64.13.16.5 and 64.13.48.12 on a CenturyTel DSL setup. Wow ClearWire allows outside DNS lookups!