Monthly Archive for June, 2008

FX5200 and 8800GT Video cards DO NOT work in the same system.

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Eric Greer
on June 26, 2008
in Web Design and newbie.blog
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I wanted to upgrade my current PCIex16 NVIDIA 8800GT computer with two monitor outs to have a third monitor. I have the monitor sitting here, ready to go, and i ordered a PCI (not PCIe card, which I have no more mobo slots for) FX5200 because the www.nvidia.com site shows Vista drivers for it. I use Vista 32bit.

So I got the card and excitedly installed. Drivers install, BSOD. Crap.

Restarted, fiddled, tried different driver versions, changed video priority in the BIOS, nothing helped. I even tried some modded video cards from some 3rd party sites in the hopes they would magically bypass this problem – nope.

In short, in case you’re wanting to install an NVIDIA FX5200 with an NVIDIA 8800GT, it just doesn’t work. NVIDIA sadly does not give a shit either, because I can find a few others posting about this online too, with no help from NVIDIA or plans for a future driver.

Outlook 2007 preview plane blank, input initials box flashes up, and Outlook will not close

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by
Eric Greer
on June 25, 2008
in newbie.blog
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In the process of configuring someone’s email, it worked for a day and then somthing wacky started happning. The next day the user went to go check their email, all of the preview panes were blank for any email he clicked on, and outlook would give the error that ‘another dialogue box is open’ when he tried to click reply, forward, or new email.

Upon further investigation I found that outlook 2007 would not close, and quickly flashed up a screen displaying the ‘input initials’ prompt when it was restarted. Outlook also attempted to show a window that said ‘configuring accounts’, even thought that process had already been run at a different time.

Turns out that somthing was wrong with outlook, or one of the other programs on the computer was interfearing with it. Outlook was opening a prompt for initials, auto-hiding it, then throwing errors about a prompt being open.

I found this article online that suggested just opening another office product, inputting initials there, and re-opening outlook:
http://www.jasonslater.co.uk/2008/05/28/outlook-2007-reports-dialog-box-is-open-alert/

It worked great, and I should have throught of it!

Enable or disable 32bit IIS6 applications on Windows x64 versions

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by
Eric Greer
on June 19, 2008
in newbie.blog
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Enable 32bit App pools on x64:
cscript %SystemDrive%\inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1

Disable 32bit App pools on x64:
cscript %SystemDrive%\inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0

thats it!

Use rsync 2.0 with trickle for upload-limited differential data backup

Published
by
Eric Greer
on June 18, 2008
in Linux
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Recently, I wanted to backup all my home pictures to my web hosting at www.dreamhost.com, which has tons of transfer… but I wanted to do it with the linux server in my home. I yum’d in rsync, but it was version 3 and was incompatible with my web host.

Didn’t seem like a problem.

So i downloaded version 2… but surprise, version two does not have a –limit option for bandwidth.

I did some searching and found a program called trickle, which through methods I don’t fully understand can be successfully used to limit upload to 15Kb/sec for rsync as seen below:

rsync -a -r -e "trickle -u 15 ssh" --progress \usr\homeserv\Pictures backupuser@backup.integrii.net:your/path/to/files/

It helps to run this in a screen session that you can check up on.

I set this to run in cron.d and my pictures are automatically synced up behind the scenes for me and securely stored off-site. Yay!