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Performed an in-place upgrade of a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server machine from SUSE 10 to SUSE 11. Afterwards, I noticed that I couldn’t use the ping command. I get the message socket: Permission denied. Checked the permissions on the ping executable and it looked okay. Google didn’t seem to be coming up with anything useful, but I kept glancing over… Continue reading SUSE Linux – ping socket: Permission denied

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I just picked up a fancy Netgear Nighthawk R7000 AC1900 router. I have a couple of devices capable of AirPlay such as a Pioneer audio receiver, XBMC, etc. These devices had been working solidly before this router but now, I was getting a very unreliable intermittent AirPlay connection. If I paused my music for more than a second, I would… Continue reading AirPlay not working with Netgear Nighthawk router R7000 AC1900

Visual Studio 2012 installation was failing, seemed to take a long time on “Creating a system restore point.” Eventually shows an error screen saying “Setup Engine: Access is Denied.” Log file in TEMP directory says: Error 0x80070005: Failed to write run key value. Error 0x80070005: Failed to update resume mode. Error 0x80070005: Failed to begin registration session. Error 0x80070005: Failed… Continue reading Visual Studio 2012 Setup Engine: Access is Denied Error 0x80070005

I’m not exactly sure what the situation is that causes it but if your Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 crashes on startup and you check the event log and see this error: Faulting application name: OUTLOOK.EXE, version: 14.0.4760.1000, time stamp: 0x4ba8fefd Faulting module name: olmapi32.dll, version: 14.0.4760.1000, time stamp: 0x4ba8fe34 Exception code: 0xc00000fd Fault offset: 0x0003807a Faulting process id: 0x608 Faulting… Continue reading Microsoft Outlook 2010 crashes on startup olmapi32.dll

When trying to pslist a remote machine, you get this error: PsList 1.26 – Process Information Lister Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals – www.sysinternals.com Process performance object not found on COMPUTERNAME Run Exctrlst from the Windows Resource Kit to repair the performance counters. For once, the error message is right! Run exctrlst, and then…umm…now what? One more line of… Continue reading PSLIST Process performance object not found Run Exctrlst from the Windows Resource Kit to repair the performance counters

It’s frustrating when things don’t work as they should. While setting up a Samba server on SuSE 11, I had the pleasure of troubleshooting why permissions weren’t being inherited by children of a folder. I had what seemed like all of the appropriate settings in my smb.conf file. I looked over it a million times. inherit acls, inherit permissions, blah… Continue reading Samba not enforcing permissions inheritance