Month: July 2007

The first form factor of the early PC clones was the AT style. This gave birth later to what became known as the “Baby AT” which was a common motherboard type for many years along with the AT type power supply. The original AT motherboard measured 305 x 350 mm. The BabyAT boards varied in… Continue reading From ATX / NLX to Micro ATX / Low Profile

eTrust ITM services are not started after installation on Vista. The Realtime agent will report that it cannot access the Realtime service. InoRT, InoRPC and InoTask services are all stopped. Windows Security Center reports that eTrust ITM is out of date. The PC is very slow with a high level of disk activity. Resolution: From… Continue reading NZ Schools 2007 Software Issues

These days with the increasing tendency to use double-barrelled surnames resulting in a username that could exceed 20 characters in length, it pays to be careful when setting up accounts for such people. Suppose we have our usernames in the form firstname.lastname and we have a user “abcdef.ghijkl-mnopqrs”. This username is 21 characters long including… Continue reading %username% with usernames over 20 characters