Yet another one that one of our clients received the other day. This was on their Verizon phone. We confirmed that it happened to another Verizon customer as well.
From: MsgID5_YW6WAWUF@v.w
Sooper Credit Union Alert:
Your CARD has been DEACTIVATED. Please contact us at 303-482-2272 to REACTIVATE your CARD.
Windows 7 (and Vista) have changed the way that the old command line window works. You no longer have ultimate unlimited power when you click the command line prompt in the start menu.
Try something fancy and you will get the dreaded “The requested operation requires elevation.” Elevation? Wait a second, we are in Colorado, is that not elevated enough? Apparently not.
Now it gets fun. You can either 1) right click command prompt and choose “run as administrator” or 2) you can use a keyboard shortcut.
Right click method:
Keyboard Shortcut method:
Type cmd.exe into the search/run box in your windows menu and then press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER. Wow, that’s easy to remember, right?
We just got a report from one of our clients that the old Jury Duty scam (around since 2001) is back on the rise. In this particular scam you get a call from a person claiming to work for the courts who is outraged that you did not show up for your scheduled jury duty.
This is the proper time to hang up. If you stay on the phone the scammer will start asking for your phone number, social, address, etc so they can “verify your information”. Next thing you know you are being taken to the cleaners by a bunch of crooks.
For more details see the article on Snopes.com.
Microsoft let slip today that the R2 release of their Server 2008 operating system is set to be release in concert with Windows 7 on October 22nd of this year.
Original Article at Computer World
The big highlight for me is the inclusion of read only replication groups in DFS-R. We use DFS-R as an easy method for copying project files from remote sites to a central location for consolidated tape backups. Making those replication groups read-only would provide an extra layer of security to ensure that the central site cannot make a fat fingered mistake that modifies the remote site’s files (trust me, this can happen).
I use Wordpress 2.7.1 for this blog. Earlier today I ran into an issue where the image would upload to the Wordpress Media Library, but the link that Wordpress created to the image would not work in the post.
Several other posts I found on the internet mentioned editing some settings in the miscellaneous screen under the site administration settings. Miscellaneous? What miscellaneous?
Where is my missing miscellaneous?
I went into the wp-admin directory on my wordpress server and found that I did indeed have an options-misc.php page. I typed that into my browser’s address bar and hoped for the best. Sure enough it pulled up the settings page for configuring the image URL location on my Wordpress installation.
I noticed that the setting for “Full URL path to files” was incorrect. I tried blanking the entry (the recommended setting), but that did not work. I then noticed that my Wordpress installation had added the full URL of my website into the directory structure for the wp-update directory. I added that extra bit to the end of the image path…
Wordpress miscellaneous settings with corrected full URL path.
and presto, I had images.
If anyone has a suggestion for getting the miscellaneous option to appear in my admin menu, please let me know.
I have an HP Pavilion tx2000 laptop/tablet running the x64 bit version of Windows 7 RC, Build 7100. The TrueSuite.FPR application would crash every time I tried to register a finger using the Control Panel fingerprint application.
I did a bit of research and found this solution on the Microsoft Technet forums:
“Try to run “regsvr32.exe “C:Program FilesWIN7TSWBFLibrary.dll”‘ from elevated command prompt.
It seems that COM-object from this library is not registered in installation process.”
The author (thank you imLex) was absolutely correct and the fix worked perfectly. It didn’t even require a reboot.
I have downloaded and installed Windows 7 on one of our laptops. So far I am impressed as to how much better it is then Vista. However, I’m still not convinced that it stands up to good old Windows XP. I will post more findings soon.
One of our clients uses a MacBook Pro for doing development work. She uses Microsoft Visual Studio on Windows XP running under a Parallels virtual machine. Today she managed to get the keyboard stuck in delete mode, instead of the standard insert mode. Typing new text would not move the remaining text to the right, but instead would go right over the top of the old text.
I did some research and found out that she uses the Ctrl+Shift+M keyboard shortcut a lot for some weird SQL thing and had accidently hit Fn+M. It turns out that Function M is the equivalent of hitting the Insert key on the numeric keypad on a standard full sized keyboard. Presto! Problem solved.
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