AccPac Error.

Currently I am upgrading a large school network from Netware to Windows Server 2003. Part of the migration included moving AccPac over to the new system.

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Displaying File Permissions with PHP

For whatever reason you may need to display file permissions for one of your websites. I have thrown together a very basic script which will recursively (yay recursion) navigate your filesystem and save the folder/filenames and their respective file permissions into an associative array. The script then displays the array very basically.

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Using NTFS Resize

Recently I found myself in a situation which required me to resize an NTFS partition in order to fit it onto a replacement HDD. In searching around and seeking some advice from a work mate I found the SysRescue Live CD (downloadable from: www.sysresccd.org) that has a tool on it called NTFSResize.

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EAPOL settings and troubleshooting

I had just installed a new AP onto a wireless network of ours that is configured using PEAP with 802.1x authentication this week and was having no end of trouble with clients connecting to it. It seemed to work for about one minute and then things turned decidedly pear shaped and eventually the entire laptop would lock up requiring a restart to correct.

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How to install a disk controller driver when Windows won't boot following an upgrade of drive type.

I found myself in this situation on site about a month ago. I had upgraded (well okay maybe downgraded) a drive from SCSI to SATA and Windows would no longer boot. Normally in this situation I do a repair install but this time I was feeling adventurous and wanted to try something I had thought about doing a while back. Besides repair installs are never any good on servers and always end up causing more problems than they solve.

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