Month: July 2010

No significant record of problems with Aficio 1045 or 3045 either PCL or RPCS. Problems started with using PCL drivers for Aficio MP C5000 colour copier with popup user code customisation by Ricoh NZ. Some users had difficulty printing from Word / Publisher etc but OK when file converted to PDF and printed in Adobe…

Probable (preferred) backup solution: Low end dedicated backup server (Intel entry server SC5299, S3210 board, Xeon, max 8 GB RAM, RAID-1 disks, Promise EX8350 8 port SATA disk controller) – $2000 – $2500 Stardom SOHOtank 4 tray removable disk array (eSATA) Evaluating DPM for 180 days. Automated agent deployment unsuccessful so far (probably firewall problems).…

Use DBAN (www.dban.org) The old version 1.0.x doesn’t always work but there is a newer version 2.2.6 beta available which works well (tried on Toshiba S200 so far). If installing Server 2008 on a box that needs RAID drivers the process is vastly improved from 2003 which could only access a FDD. 2008/R2/Vista/7 can load…

Using Group Policy Preferences to deploy printers and getting “Access denied”: ensure the printer’s security permissions include Full control for the System user. Using Group Policy Preferences to deploy printers to Windows 7 / Vista computers and getting event ID 4098 with message “The RPC server is unavailable”: on the properties of each printer item…

What should this blog be about? I’ve decided it will just present technical info / tips / notes in abbreviated format – quicker to write – NO POLITICS OR COMMENTARY ANY MORE – can’t be bothered. Who needs Facebook etc or iPhones or iPads. Why do we need all this technological development. Where is it…

Following our prototype deployment of Windows 7, we now have five laptops in regular use with this OS, along with Office 2010, with few if any significant problems showing up. This includes switching one existing laptop running Vista to Windows 7. Office 2010 has a lot of improvements, especially in Outlook which has adopted the…