ubuntu intrepid 8.10 – no sound after viewing flash webpage

Problem :

Sound was working fine until visit some flash website and all of sudden, all sound related apps (amarok, totem, pidgin & etc) are “mute” or no sound. Checking /var/log/message got these “pulseaudio[?????]: protocol-native.c: Warning! Too many connections (64), dropping incoming connection.”

Solution :

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

Viola!

ubuntu thunderbird with enigmail – error

Problem :

After the installation of thunderbird, opengpg does not work, complained about “Enigmail: Enigmime service not available”

Solution :

  1. shutdown thunderbird
  2. apt-get clean
  3. apt-get remove enigmail mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
  4. apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail

Viola!

Microsoft Windows 2000 – Problem Starting Computer Management Console

When are you having problem to start up Computer Management Console, one of the error you will see in the Windows 2000 error log is;

“Temporary directory is not found or there is not enough disk space …”.

The error message means that Windows is unable to locate Temp Directory (temporary directory). In order to find out system default Temp Directory, Use “echo %TEMP%” to output System Default Temporary Directory folder configuration

If the Temporary Directory is not exist, create one at the sub folder.

Try again to launch your Computer Management Consol, it should works fine now :)

ifconfig – NIC capabilities / functions

find out what is the capability of an network interface, e.g. :

ifconfig -m vr0

configure / set media types of a NIC, e.g :

ifconfig vr0 media 100baseTX
ifconfig vr0 media autoselect

Network Time Protocol Sync with External Server on Windows Server

configure / set network time server :

net time /setsntp:0.pool.ntp.org

start the network time services :

net stop w32time

net start w32time

check whether network time is in sync :

net time /querysntp