Nov
1
Monitor Server Room Temperature
Filed Under Solutions, System Support
Problem: Was having problems with our small server room overheating. We have a dedicated AC for the room but it was malfunctioning from time to time. In order to avoid server fail/over heating, we needed something that would notify us if the temperature in the server room went above a certain temp.
Solution: Found the TemPageR 3E from avtech.com and it does exactly what we needed. The device is about $200, has two temp sensors and a built in web server so you can literally plug it in and monitor almost instantly. The device acts as one sensor and comes with a external sensor to monitor a different part of the room(You can buy a 3rd external sensor for $25).  I have the box sitting by the servers to monitor that temp and the external sensor is set to monitor the output of the AC. Both have a threshold set and when that threshold gets met, I get an email notification warning me of a possible problem. For the price, this is a perfect unit to give you a little piece of mind during the weekends. It also comes in a rack mount version.
Links:
http://avtech.com/Products/ID/179.htm
Oct
29
The ordinal 421 could not be located in the dynamic link library urlmon.dll
Filed Under Solutions, System Support
Problem: Updated my server 2003 and upon reboot I got the following error: The ordinal 421 could not be located in the dynamic link library urlmon.dll. The server would boot up but most functionality was lost from accessing the internet to checking log files. Tried a couple of things including replacing the urlmon.dll file within safe mode (the version of urlmon.dll that was on the server was an older version than it should have been). Still no luck.
Solution: Realized that the problem had to do with IE8. It turns out that IE8 did not install correctly and therefore created all of the problems. Went into “add remove programs” and uninstalled IE8 and rebooted. The error went away and functionality was restored.
Oct
21
Problem: When opening up new emails in my iPhone, I couldn’t read the message contents or attachements. The email appeared to be blank. This was happening with my Gmail and Exchange accounts.
Solution: Reset the iPhone and that seemed to have worked but the problem came back. The solution without having to reset/reboot the device is to close all of your programs by double clicking on the home button and then closing all of the programs on the list. Once I did that, I was able to read my emails once again. My question is this: Is there an app that will close all of your open programs on you iPhone so you don’t have to do this everytime? Right now, I haven’t found any so please leave a comment with a link if you have found one.
Sep
14
Problem: Cannot authenticate user to Apple Podcast Producer that is bound to Active Directory. It worked before but all of a sudden stopped working. Checked to makes sure it had rights on the server and part of the correct groups and all looked good.
Solution: Turns out the password was expired. Set the password to not expire and the problem disappeared.
Jan
26
Problem: Still learning how to use Vista on my MacBook Pro and the new problem that I have been having was the lack of a page up and page down key.
Solution: While holding down the fn key, use the up and down arrows to achieve page up and page down.
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