Windows

LibreOffice: Open source M$ Office alternative

Posted by on November 9, 2011 at 3:27 am

While OKB fully supports the Open source community. We enjoyed our time testing out a new Office application called LibreOffoce . This project is backed by The Document Foundation . We found the application to be comparable with Microsoft Office suit 2000 up to version 2010. You can save in docx, xlsx, doc and xls. [...]

PHPBB: specified DSN contains an architecture

Posted by on November 7, 2011 at 12:22 am

Full error: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application Server: Windows 2k8 64bit SQL Server : SQL 2k8 R2 Summary: This is occurring because you are trying to connect to a 64bit system. Notice that PHP runs in 32bit mode so you will need to set a [...]

Windows: screen flipped upside down

Posted by on October 23, 2011 at 6:17 pm

Oops, You hit a few keys and notice your screen is flipped upside down. You can resolve this by holding down the CTRL +ALT keys then hit the up arrow.

Plesk: SWKeyExFatalError error

Posted by on October 3, 2011 at 5:59 pm

ERROR: SWKeyExFatalError xmlrpc error: XML parsing failed 0: common_func.php3:4523 of_get_key_by_product(string ‘plesk-win’) 1: common_func.php3:4523 getPleskKey() 2: common_func.php3:4602 getKeyProp(string ‘demo’) 3: auth.php3:54 Solution : Check the size of the file %plesk_dir%\admin\repository\registry.xml. If file is empty and equals 0KB, delete this file. Once it is done, try to access to Parallels Plesk Panel. New file should be generated [...]

IIS6: can you install IIS6 on Windows 2008

Posted by on September 28, 2011 at 2:51 pm

You can not install IIS6 on windows 2k8. You can however install IIS6 management tools under windows 2k8. Some people use the management tools to setup FTP users. Let it be noted that I do not understand why you would do such a thing. IIS7+ has the ability to manage FTP users.