Prevent Outside Parties from Scheduling Your Calendar
Ever receive an email with an Outlook calendar item attached, then find that the item appeared in your calendar without your permission? It turns out that by default, Outlook lets …
GoldMine Time Bomb Triggered in 2011
When I started GoldMine 6.5 for the first time in 2011, I was greeted with a rather unwelcome message: “Please note that your computer’s system date is erroneously set to …
Restore a Hyper-V Server to an Optiplex 960
Recently I upgraded a small server to run Windows Server 2008 R2 as a Hyper-V host, with Server 2008 R2 as a guest as well. I’ve read that Windows Server …
Web-Enable Your Custom Software Application
Are you using custom software to run your business? Perhaps an older Access or FoxPro application? Or maybe some Excel spreadsheets with custom macros? Ever wonder about converting that to …
Android Certificates
I’m enjoying my new Samsung Captivate, still running Android 2.1 (c’mon, AT&T, let’s see 2.2!). But I’ve found that Android doesn’t trust the SSL certificate I installed from StartSSL. No …
Identifying and Avoiding Fake Anti-Virus Programs
One of the biggest threats to your computer comes when you land on a web site containing a fake anti-virus warning. These sites try to trick you into installing a …
Set up Windows Authentication in IE8
If you have a web site that requires logging on with Windows Authentication, you can set Internet Explorer 8 to pass through your current credentials, thus bypassing the logon prompt. …
GoldMine Sync ERROR 00000024
Sometimes the most difficult problems have the simplest solutions. I’m using GoldMine 6.50.40704. For years I was able to sync with Outlook using the built-in wizard. Since upgrading from Exchange …
Accessing a Button in a Visual WebGui ListView
I’ve developed a Visual WebGui 6.4 RC1 form that uses a ListView control with a button in each row. The button opens a custom control when pressed. It’s very similar …
How to Repair the SBSMonitoring Database
My daily report from SBS 2008 told me that MSSQL$SBSMONITORING had raised error event 8646 “Unable to find index entry in index ID 6, of table 357576312, in database ‘SBSMonitoring’. …