So your Windows 8 drive just crashed and won’t boot, but you were smart enough to create a repair DVD or flash drive. You place your flash drive into the computer and boot from it. You chose the ‘Automatic Repair’ or ‘Refresh your PC’ option only to to get the following message The drive where…
Creating a bootable drive for a UEFI/EFI machine is actually quite simple. All you need to do is format the flash drive and set it up then dump your files on it from any bootable OS CD like Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 or any of your favourite bootable CD images you use for…
So I was listening to a podcast last night call Security Now. It is a security show that is hosted by Leo Leport of the TWiT Network and features Steve Gibson of Gibson Research Corporation. Security Now is one of my favourite podcasts to listen to every week. I love what Steve has to say and…
BlackBerry OS 10.2.1 has added a new and very innovative feature to the OS called Picture Password. What Picture Password does is it allows you to chose an image, and then place a number (0-9) somewhere on that image. Picture Password replaces the need to type in a password or PIN, to unlock your device…
We were having issues where a single user was having troubles trying to see other users free busy time. They would try to schedule a meeting and add users and rooms but they always got the “No free/busy information could be retrieved, Your server Location could not be determined” This was on a Windows 8 machine…
I have been a Chrome user for a long time. I love the way Chrome works, it’s fast, it loads quickly, Chrome is a no mess no fuss browser. Recently I have been having issues with Chrome and some plugin interference with a page I was developing. While trying to troubleshoot the issue a friend…
We have all done it at one point in time, we’re busy or distracted and we send a message to the wrong BBM contact. This kind of thing normally only causes confusion or causes people to send you back a few ???? This is typical of the fast paced technology age we live in now,…
We were having some issues with GPO deployed TCP/IP printers and Windows 8. It would seem that all the printers got pushed out but they all got pushed out with the same port IP_2.0.0.0 which used a IP of 2.0.0.0. Obviously this was not the IP of the printers. To solve this issue I change…
Okay I have found another issue that I hope I can help everyone else with should they have the same issue. If you just want the solution and want to skip the story click here.. VIDEO SOON Ahhh A New Laptop At work we got in these beautiful new Dell XPS 14 Laptops, Dell…
If you are running a BES 10.1 server you may receive the following error when trying to activate a device: Activation can’t be completed. Check that you are connected to a network or contact your administrator for assistance. The issue can be related to this BlackBerry KB article. What happens is that during activation it looks for…
