Das Werkstatt

[Problem] After a reboot, MS SQL 7 did not start up. After manually launching it by executing C:\mssql\binn\sqlservr.exe in the shell, i got this error message: Error: 9003, Severity: 20, State: 1. Cannot recover the master database. Exiting. [Solution] I've tried a dozen things, but this is really...

[Problem] When trying to use USB devices on a booted Devil Linux system, you might run into a wall, being this error message: usb 4-2: device not accepting address [i]nn[/i], error -110 [Solution] It took a while to find this one out, after trying a lot of USB chipset driver modules and a lot of ot...

[Problem] When installing devil linux on a XPC Shuttle ST20G5, i had trouble finding the correct network driver for the on-board ethernet card. [Solution] The correct driver for the on-board device is the 'tg3' module. This stands for (Broadcom) Tigon 3. After using the devil linux setup / manually...

[Problem] Using "Devil Linux", i tried to set up a small fileserver recently, and ran into the following. After configuring xinetd for swat, you only get an empty page when trying to connect - or no connection at all. [Solution] The xinetd.conf (usually /etc/xinetd.conf) has a default blo...

Front:

Friendship is like pissing your pants

Backside

Everyone sees it, but only you can feel its true warmth

Honour good movies!

I will also put stuff here that i would love on a T-shirt

Front:

Be excellent to each other

Backside print:

Party on, dude!

[Problem] Right when installing windows 2000 on the new box (A8R32 MVP Deluxe, AMD 64 X2 4200+, 2 GB of DDR 400 CL2.5, 160GB Barracuda SATA II), i ran into a few pesky problems. 1.: After setup, it does not show the second CPU 2.: Changing the machine type in the hardware settings to something else ...

[Problem] I built my new box on the base of a Asus A8R32 MVP Deluxe motherboard. Since the gfx board and RAM was not delivered yet, i just put in a single DIMM (Single RAM only works on RAM slot B1!) DDR 266 and a PCI gfx board, to see if it would actually boot up or if the delivered motherboard wa...

1. Welcome to the boards 2. English is the board language 3. I have a weird hangover 4. Welcome to the boards, again. Now on topic: As i said yesterday on the phone, first of all, check the following things. * Cable from Modem to Computer (you already did that) * NIC eth0 in the computer * dhcpcd (D...

/me points to the "As usual, there will be a way around. Hacked firmware, hacked drivers, whatever"-line. Then i'll play my favourite games on emulators, dont buy new games, and use linux for my desktop. Because if it wasn't for gaming, i wouldn't use windows much :P Besides there sure are...

[Problem] After installing Oracle 10 Release 2 , you want to use the Enterprise Manager (EM) to schedule a backup of the databases. However, in the end it asks for logon credentials for the operating system (So, for a user account of the OS , not of Oracle). Even tho you entered "Administrator...

As usual, there will be a way around. Hacked firmware, hacked drivers, whatever.

If not, they can suck my nuts, and i store a million good old DVDs in the cellar, + some backup DVD-R/RW drives and compatible hardware.

[Problems] I was trying to get a HP RR 1640 to run with SuSE and Debian, and failed on both in the beginning. The behaviour was weird overall, from not detecting any disks to detecting one disk or nothing.... Then, when trying to compile the driver from the HP homepage, i ran into another error, wh...

[Problem] You try to access the webinterface to configure your ts2 server, but get a: Access denied You do not have sufficient priviligies to access this document. [Solution] You probably deleted the "superuser" - user in the superuser configuration. Even if you are not going to use this ...

[Problem] After the ts2 server ran for quite a while, and had some traffic going, it suddenly hung up. It was still "running" (as in, there was a pid, and i could stop it and restart it with the startscript w/o problems), but did not respond to any connection attempts. The logfile says: E...