Published July 29th, 2007
in Personal Issues and Techie.
In college I purchased Quickverse 4 Deluxe with a couple Bibles and commentaries (which I still have). This was a great help with my term papers and homework, I started quoting the Bible a whole lot more with cut & paste.
After graduation I purchased Version 5 Enhanced with many more books, and I used this more as I started preaching. Unfortunately version 5 does not work with XP, but so long as it was only my laptop running XP I was just fine.
So when I moved my primary desktop from 98SE to XP in 2004 I had to upgrade to version 8. The problem was that I just purchased the standard version and I couldn’t get it to recognize my large collection of older books (including the NIV). This meant that I was using my old computer for sermon writing until I could get it figured out.
After a few hours of digging I discovered how to manually add my collections into Q8 again and how to manually manage the library.xml file to adapt everything to my own preferences.
In late 2005 I reinstalled my OS from scratch to do some changes on my system and I archived my old installation. Nearly 2 years later I have reinstalled Q8 (plus the 8.0.4 update) and just went through a bit of a headache to reintegrate my previous changes. My Library is once again sanely organized and named, and all my books are there. I did forget to backup the QVProfiles folder from the “Application Data” folder in Documents & Settings, but I didn’t lose much there.
All of this because I start teaching a Bible Study tomorrow night and need quick reference again.
Published July 27th, 2007
in Misc Othr Stuf.
There I was, standing between the croissants and cookies at Sam’s Club picking up supplies for the weekend and I heard Mr. John c. Dvorak(.org/blog) comment on Megachurch IT.
Listen to Episode 74 at approximately 25 minutes. While discussing a spammer convinced he is going to hell, Patrick Norton (DL.TV) and Sabastian Rupley (PCMagCast.com) started talking about how the spammer could start working for a Megachurch and John jumped in to say “Those Megachurches, don’t kid yourself, have a lot of IT departments that know what they are doing.”
So, to all you Megachurch IT departments out there that know what you are doing, there is a Good-on-ya from Mr. Dvorak.
I’m not completely sure what he really meant about it, but someone out there has made an impression on him.
Published July 26th, 2007
in Personal Notes and Techie.
I keep looking for this information on the blog here and forgetting that it is actually in the forum here: VPN’s.
So, without further ado, I will post it here as well (note: I am not using the port mentioned here).
Notes: You can change the listening port for remote desktop
Then connect on that port
To set up remote desktop on port 3053 instead of 3389
Using regedit (if you don’t know what that is then don’t do this) change:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\System
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\TerminalServer
\WinStations
\RDP-Tcp
\PortNumber
to 3053 (or bed in Hexadecimal).
Reboot Windows to make sure the setting took properly
Open port 3053 on the Windows firewall
Set the IP address so that a future reboot would not give me a new IP.
Open 3053 on the router’s firewall and point at the IP set for the computer.
To test it I connected to my home computer and then had it connect back to the computer here using domain.com:3053 and it worked. It was dead slow, but it worked.
Just a note that even a fast internet connection gets sluggish when you are connecting both directions over RDP.
Published July 21st, 2007
in fun.
I see something that may need to be added to our employee handbook.
Man chucks computer from window, everyone empathizes.
Published July 21st, 2007
in Personal Notes and Podcasting.
Published July 6th, 2007
in Techie.
PhotoShop 7 has trouble saving over the network to a drive with more than 1TB of empty space. Since we have just moved the “My Documents” storage to a much larger drive we are now hitting this issue.
That one drive has 1.01TB of empty space. I started to duplicate a large number of files to make up for the gap and then remembered it was possible to make a big file place holder.
I tested it by incrementing the size up until I had the right size file in place. The final result was
fsutil file createnew d:\junkfiles\BigFillerFile.junk 15000000000
In a few months/weeks we will probably have that 15GB filled up with regular files and then I can delete that filler file and be just fine.
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