Have You Heard Yet of CD-ROM?
I recently came across a letter that I wrote to a theologian friend in November 1987 about a business idea. Reading it was a fun reminder of how far technology …
TurboTax Fails to Print Supporting Details
I want to raise awareness about a TurboTax bug that may affect your ability to defend yourself in the case of an IRS audit. I use the TurboTax Supporting Details …
Office 365 SMTP Relay: What KB2600912 Doesn’t Tell You
Yesterday I was trying to set up Office 365 to relay email messages from Line-of-Business applications. I was following the smart-host method described in Microsoft KB2600912: How to set up …
Lenovo System Update UNCServer.exe
I had a moment of panic this morning when I discovered UNCServer.exe running on my Windows 7 workstation. I thought it was a VNC server, which could allow external control …
Event 7026: Boot-Start Device SBRE Failed to Load
I was getting this message when rebooting a Windows operating system: Log Name: System Source: Service Control Manager Event ID: 7026 Level: Error Description: The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) …
Scoped Snapshots vmicvss Error 13 on Server 2012, Windows 8
I’m running Server 2012 Essentials running in a Hyper-V machine under Windows Server 2008 R2. The Hyper-V host does a daily Windows backup at 9pm. The backup is configured to …
Mom Dodges a Fake Antivirus Bullet
Tonight my mom was browsing her local utility’s web site when she got a popup “Message from webpage” that Microsoft Antivirus had found critical activity A “Microsoft Security Essentials Alert” …
Batch Convert PDF to PDF/A
Note This post is outdated . See the 2018 version here. I’m developing a paperless workflow for my home and office. I want to save all my documents in PDF/A-1b archival format …
Skype Password Token Is Not Recognized
So you’ve gotten rid of Microsoft Messenger and switched to Skype. But you forgot your password, and now Skype has you in an infinite loop of “Sorry that password token …
Find the Largest Files on a Linux Machine
The PBX in a Flash machine at a client site sends me a daily Logwatch email (setup described here). At the bottom of that email are a few lines telling …