Data loss is one of the leading cause of hair loss to IT administrators and anemia to the company’s treasury.
Here’s a quick and simple but effective guide to preventing data loss disasters for a typical webserver (and probably preventing you from going bald):
After a bitter experience with Synapse Global Corporation, a hosting company that supposedly have good and long reputation, my service provider have finally moved away to GNAX.
Hopefully, there won’t be any server hard disk head crash anymore. I’ve devised a contigency plan and disaster management strategy too just in case it happens again.
Thanks alot to Mr. Caric Tan for losing his sleep trying to recover my data and Mr. Michael Foo for working tirelessly making ends meet.
Surprisingly, one of the most useful extension to Microsoft Visual Studio goes largely unnoticed: Visual Basic PowerPack.
Think of Visual Basic PowerPack as the managed code reincarnation of a collection controls that made life easy on VB6 but were dropped since VB7:
Controls include PrintForm, LineShape, OvalShape, RectangleShape and DataRepeater. Oh those good old days are back!
This brief tutorial teaches you how to disable Autorun to better protect yourself from malwares spreaded via USB flash drives and other removable media on Windows PCs.
Problem: Adobe Illustrator CS3 crashes whenever you try to save a document in its default format.
Cause: The print spooler service is not started.
Solution: Start the print spooler via services.msc or this command:
net start spooler
