Adobe Indesign/Illustrator/Photoshop/other: Missing fonts that are installed
Ran into an issue where adobe products were not showing fonts that I had installed. Word/Wordpad would have the fonts listed just not any Adobe products installed.
Answer: Search your computer for *.lst and delete them.
Aparantly Adobe maintains a list of fonts on the PC and fails to update them. This gets those products to find the fonts that are installed again.
Example: Indesign documents would open and have a missing font prompt even through the fonts were installed
Windows XP/Vista/7: Folder Redirection Not Working?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305293
XP and newer may bypass/do quick logon which will stop folder redirection from happening. Adding this policy can make redirection work. Ran into this on a place that was redirecting mydocs and we moved the home drives and computers were not picking up the change.
Policy Setting:
Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesSystemLogon Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon
Adobe Acrobat Reader: Disable Protected Mode Registry Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesAdobeAcrobat Reader10.0FeatureLockDown
Add the below to the FeatureLockDown Key
“bProtectedMode”=dword:00000000
SQL 2008: Shrink Database Log File
alter databse databasename set recovery simple
dbcc shrinkfile (databasename_log)
exec sp_helpdb databasename
alter database databasename set recover full
Internet TV Streaming: Cutting the Cord
I have done a signifigant amount of research on this and one thing lead to another and another and so on. My final setup on this is as follows:
Roku 2 xs~$100:
Can’t beat the price for what it can do. There a bunch of private channels you can use. Works with pretty much all the streaming services out there. Some of the channels you can use are: Crackle, Hulu Plus, Amazon, Netflix, Playon.
Xbox 360:
I already had it. I already love it. Works with most streaming services. Many of the same services as Roku which was key for me so I can have my content the same on different TVs.
Winegard Metrostart 360 HD Antenna:
Gotta have live TV. Like to watch Packer games and other things. Plus the HD quality is better than cable/satellite. Just hooked it up to the old splitter for cable and bam all my TVs now have antenna TV.
Those 3 things have brought me Video Content bliss. Now after I had all that setup what else can you do? Well looking at services lets have a see
Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon are all cool streaming services but I need to get more programming from the networks. CBS is not on Hulu Plus along with several other networks. Hulu has a bunch of programs that are not on Hulu Plus however there is no regular Hulu channel or app to add to my XBOX or ROKU. Here is where the gloriousness of Playon comes in.
Playon basically grabs video streams off websites to dump to your device. Install on a computer in your house and then your device will find your computer and give you your content! Works with my ROKU and XBOX. For a full channel list check it out: http://www.playon.tv/content-channels and at only $30 bucks for the year? Far cheaper than cable. Content is not HD, however the programming for instance from CBS is good and depends on how the website is putting the streams up. Bonus for Playon has a My Media which will play your own media files.
Playing my own media files? This got me to thinking ok, I have a cabinet full of DVDs. Rather than searching through those for a movie to watch would be cool to have those on the my media section. I had several in .ISO format. That was no good as it would not play those. Time to convert them! Used Handbrake to re-encode the movies to .mkv files with h.264 codec. DVD that is normally 4 gigs can be down to 1gig or less! You can build an impressive library of Movies that are ready at a clicks notice!
PBS has a nice article outlining various devices, services, etc here:
12/12/2012 – Update:
Playon is still cool if you need channel content streamed to Rokus. Currently I have switched primary media streaming in favor of Plex. (www.plexapp.com). New content setup is a:
1 – Synology DS212 with 2 x 3TB HD for redundant storage.
Synology can run Plex on the device and stream content to your devices (my case roku’s and Xbox 360). Be sure your content is in an acceptable format which seems to be the mainstream standard now: h264 video and aac audio with a MP4 container. If you have stuff that is in that format and not in a .mp4 file you can use FFMpeg to copy the contents to a .mp4 file. (xbox and roku compatible for HTTP streaming as the DS212 cannot transcode, give it a break it is a 2.0ghz arm proc).
DNS: How to determine a Host (A) Record entry needing to be added to your local DNS to match external site address
Had a web developer today tell me hey add this website to DNS for me. I asked him what IP do you want me to point this to? He said huh? Fun fact: some companies have their Active Directory Domain the same as their external domain name. This was the case for this Host record needing to be added.
1. Determine the IP address of the host you want to add via, Network solutions who is for the domain you are adding a host for such as: thiswebsiterocks.yourcompany.com so search for who is info for yourcompany.com
2. once you know the Name servers listed at the bottom time to bust out good old command line nslookup (I am sure there are various other ways to do this and if you have others great, I enjoy nslookup on win7). Start, Run, cmd or Start Search for CMD and open it.
3. nslookup
4. server <the name server you found from the who is search>
5. thiswebsiterocks.yourcompany.com
6. This will return the IP address for the site.
7. Give your DNS admin the thiswebsiterocks.yourcompany.com and IP address and you will be all set!
End of confusion.
BES: BlackBerry Enterprise 5 SP1 upgrade to 5 SP3 challenges – Removing MDS Integration
There are a couple of things to note when upgrading BES from 5.0 to the latest SP3 and Maintenance Release. As of SP3 they no longer support MDS Integeration. If you normally do a default install of BES you will have this installed. When going to SP3 it will tell you to remove Integeration services. Well that will seem easy enough at first however it is not as simple as doing it through add remove programs!
1. Login to Adminstrator
2. Go to Server and Components > BlackBerry Domain > Server View > MDSSx
3. Click on Supported Dispatcher Instances and remove all from right hand column and exit Administrator.
4. Lauch BES 5.0 SP2 installer and remove MDS Integration Service (requires reboot).
5. Login to Adminstrator
6. Go to Server and Components > BlackBerry Domain > Component View > MDS Integration Service
7. It will say it is uninstalled however you need to remove it from the configuration database (no really when I said uninstall integration services from my SP2 uninstall I meant just uninstall it and leave it in the configuration database so my SP3 install will fail still — sarcasm). Say Yes – Delete this instance.
8. Install SP3 and reboot
9. Install Latest Maintenance release and reboot.
10. Test to make sure users are getting emails.
Windows XP/Vista/7: Tool for cleaning up your PC – ccleaner
http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/advanced-usage/command-line-parameters
Great tool for cleaning up PCs. Can be used with command line options for scripting! Rock it out and keep your desktops and laptops clean with out lifting a finger!
Tools: How to determine your Lan Speed?
Free tool I found for this a while back: Lanspeedtester
http://download.cnet.com/LAN-Speed-Test/3000-2085_4-10908738.html
Works great. Virus scan apps will mess with it so disable virus scan before testing your speeds!