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Friday 18 May

Apple MacBook Superdrive (CD/DVD) Scratches Discs. Big Time Apple Engineering Flaw In Design. Beware! (15:12) - E-mail: rhianATvazoom.com It seems to be a well known problem on the Internet forums that the MacBook has a serious engineering flaw with its internal CD/DVD drive. IT SCRATCHES ALL DISCS WHEN THE MACBOOK IS TILTED SLIGHTLY TO THE... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 7 February

Have You Defragged Lately? - What Is Fragmentation Anyway? (11:35) - Rhian D. Block rhian@vazoom.com One of the servers which control the services for this website along with the web hosting and email services for Vazoom was performing a bit slow. It took forever to copy files and the hard drives... | 0 Comments

Sunday 2 April

Averatec Gone (12:09) - Last night was a sad night as I paid a respectable goodbye to my 2.5 year old Averatec 3200 Series laptop. 1 ebay LCD Screen later and half a roll of scotch tape BooBoo finally bit the dust. I honestly... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 15 February

How to Remotely Change the Local Password on a Network Workstation (15:58) - Changing the local password of network workstations could be a challenge, but not with this tool! Rather than going from system to system making the change, there is a faster and more automated way to do it. Here is a... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 21 December

Galaxy.vazoom.com Moved (10:39) - A Vazoom.com backup system - Galaxy.Vazoom.Com has been relocated to another location after losing its home in Clifton Heights, PA. Galaxy now resides on a Comcast Businesss uplink in Havertown, PA.... | 0 Comments

Monday 24 January

Moving Your Microsoft Sharepoint Services 2.0 Website To a New Server When Your Databases are on a Separate SQL 2000 Server (16:35) - Author: Rhian D. Block rhian@vazoom.com This article is still under review for errors. Use at your own risk :) So you have a Windows Sharepoint Services 2.0 (WSS2) website that you would like to move to a brand new server.... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 29 September

An Addition to My Article On July 24, 2004 - APPInit_DLLs (17:33) - Author: Rhian D. Block rhian@vazoom.com who the heck am I ? I am a Senior Level IT Consultant with 2 cats! NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS STILL IN A DRAFT STATE AND I AM STILL FINISHING IT UP! Don't YELL about... | 0 Comments

Sunday 5 September

The Very Annoying DNS Resolution Problem 98/ME/XP WinSocket Repair (22:47) - Author: Rhian D. Block Email: rhian@vazoom.com Note: If this entry is helpful to you please leave a small comment! Thx I have come across this issue countless times and it is by far one of the most annoying issues ever,... | 2 Comments

Saturday 21 August

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (12:09) - Author: Rhian D. Block rhian@vazoom.net Today I acheived Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) status with the passing of test 70-210 (Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional) in the MCSA/MSCE track. I can also apply my Comptia certifications as credit... | 0 Comments

Saturday 24 July

Rhian's Tip on a Spyware / Trojan Issue + AppInit_DLLs Registry Key (11:06) - Author: Rhian D. Block rhian@vazoom.net Recently I came upon a machine that had a really annoying issue relating to a spyware / virus trojan issue. After running multiple scans using the great programs of both Adaware and SpyBot - Search... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 13 July

Limited Virtual Memory on Windows 2003 Server (00:15) - Author: Rhian D. Block rhian@vazoom.net Special Thanks: Jeremy Gavin jeremy@itwire.net Yesterday I had to deal with a company whose server which was running Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server displayed Limited Virtual Memory Your system is running without a properly sized... | 0 Comments

Monday 5 July

Problem Selecting Individual Exchange 2003 Mailboxes for Backup with Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 (00:47) - Author: Rhian D. Block Email: rhian@vazoom.net I came across an issue last week with a company that had a problem selecting the individual mailboxes of an Exchange 2003 Server for backup. The information store itself was selected with no problem... | 0 Comments

Thursday 1 July

Core RhianBlock.com Server (08:00) - As a quick post I am showing the current performance of the server this site is running on. As you can see this server really works its ass off! The server handles many requests a day from both E-mail and... | 0 Comments

Thursday 13 May

How do I change the HELO/EHLO SMTP name on my Exchange 2003 Server (20:10) - Author: Rhian D. Block rhian@vazoom.net Ok, this question came up before and I was just asked it again today. Say your configuring an Active Directory domain, and you use the recommended method of a domain.local scheme. Your exchange (email) server... | 0 Comments

Monday 10 May

Your File Replication Service event log contains 13552 and 13555 events? (18:42) - Author: Rhian D. Block rhian@vazoom.net On a recent trip to a electrical contractor in Montomgeryville that had 2 servers (Both W2k Domain Controllers) I came across a problem relating to file replication. My first hint was actually Veritas Backup Exec... | 0 Comments

Sunday 28 March

Setting Up Windows 2003 Terminal Services Part 2 of 2 (00:57) - For those who need to setup Windows 2003 Terminal Services and have not one clue how to do it this is the article for you. This is part 2 of 2. For part 1 click here The original article was... | 0 Comments

Friday 26 March

Setting Up Windows 2003 Terminal Services Part 1 of 2 (07:55) - For those who need to setup Windows 2003 Terminal Services and have not one clue how to do it this is the article for you. The original article was on http://www.windowsnetworking.com courtesy of Andrew Z. Tabona Great website! Check them... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 24 March

Making 'Backups' Of Your DVDs ;) (10:33) - Author: Rhian D. Block So you want to make backups of those DVDs of yours just in the event that your original gets damaged? Where do you even start. Let's say you have a DVD writer already in your computer... | 0 Comments

Monday 22 March

So what powers RhianBlock.com? (09:13) - If you know me, then you know I have had RhianBlock.com for many years. On it, I have provided several services to my fellow graduates of high school and college and to various friends all over the place. Originally all... | 0 Comments