The Macbook keyboard layout maps "Delete" to backspace which effectively makes it impossible to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete unless you have an external USB keyboard. The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit comes with a handy tool called remapkey.exe but if you don't want to download it, just save this code to a .reg …

Woohoo!! A few months ago, I contributed to onmac.net, hoping that somone would be motivated by the nearly $13,000 offered up to get Windows running on a MacBook. They did, and two weeks later, Apple came out with Bootcamp which did the same thing but better. I swore that THE DAY the 13 inch widescreen Macbook came …

This isn't a very common scenario, but I figured I'd write about it anyway. We recently implemented a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain at work. I suggested to my employer that, going forward, we only install SQL Server 2005 when we need a database server (phasing out 2000). I'd also suggested consolidating a couple …

I recently loaded up one of my servers and out of nowhere, I ran into this error: Server Configuration Error The server has encountered a configuration error attempting to process your request. The configuration parameter MD_CUSTOM_ERROR (6008) has an invalid value. Please contact the server administrator for …

Using a Custom 404 error script in IIS makes it possible to emulate a very basic URL rewrite. Sample Environment - IIS 6 - Website domain: "www.me.com" - URLRewrite directory: "code" Steps 1. Create a file named rewrite.asp in the code directory. 2. Add a Custom Error for the 404 Not Found. Open up …

[super old post, reposted] A few weeks ago, I asked in an IT forum if it was possible to have a "perma-VPN" connection with Windows XP. After searching for awhile, I found that Microsoft calls perma-VPNs "Demand-Dial Interfaces" and these can only be found in the Windows Server family, not Windows …

I dug up this cold from my old netnerds blog. For Googlers wondering if sustaining a remote session is possible, the answer is yes; I've sustained remote cookie sessions using both ASP & VBScript. I've provided simplified code below. It should be self explanatory. If not, drop me a comment and I'll explain it. …

The MSPress Exchange Training Kit supposedly says that you must uninstall/reinstall an Exchange Server in order to move it from one Administrative Group to another. I managed to do change the administrative group for one of my servers today using adsiedit. Here’s how I did it. - Install the Support Tools from Microsoft …

Awhile back I tried out FreeBSD for a couple months. I was used to SuSE (which I'm back to) so I ran a few commands to make my environment a bit more familiar. If you are a recent convert, you can use this code too. whereis bash chsh change shell to bash (used sysinstall to install bash) ln -s …

Your answer is Ctrl-Alt-End. Have fun!