I received the following error while installing QuickBooks 2011 on Windows XP. Error 1920: Service Intuit QuickBooks FCS (QBFCService) failed to start. The service that was failing to start was actually “QBIDPService” (aka QBVSS). I tried to start the service manually via Windows Services (services.msc) but received a timeout error. I spent a while trying […]
This article describes how to successfully migrate a physical host running Windows 2000 to a Xen 3.0.3 DomU. The Xen Dom0 is running Linux CentOS 5.2 on Intel Xeon CPUs with VT extensions. Other online discussions and examples led me to believe this would NOT work unless I was using Xen 3.0.4 or later. The […]
BackupPC assumes your mobile hosts will occassionally visit your network and allows backup of those hosts while they are on your local network. But what if you need to backup mobile Windows hosts that NEVER connect to your BackupPC LAN? We will use OpenVPN to build a VPN connection between the client and the BackupPC […]
This article describes how I successfully configured the Sipura SPA-3000 (fw 2.0.13) for use as a single line inbound/outbound trunk within Asterisk at Home (asterisk 1.2.1). Unlike the other examples I found, this configuration is fairly simple and does NOT require configuration of special extensions, etc. This configuration should be fairly secure, but any suggestions […]
This article demonstrates a working configuration of OneOrZero helpdesk that was setup to authenticate to Novell NDS via LDAP. I wrote a simple patch for OneOrZero that is designed to accept multiple Base DN records and search through each record for the requested username (uid). Configuring OneOrZero to Authenticate to Novell NDS via LDAP First, […]