Month: July 2007

FileZilla Forums :: View topic – always get "empty directory listing"

From
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3841
(I haven’t registered on the forums, I use FileZilla Server very rarely. 😉
I had similar trouble. Comodo firewall, and no files showing in the directory listing.
This is while connecting to the server running on my computer, from an FTP client running on my computer (I tried Filezilla, and Firefox).
What fixed it for me is this: I went into Comodo Firewall. In the Application Monitor entry for Filezilla Server.exe, right click, choose “Edit…”, Miscellaneous tab, and check “Skip advanced security checks”.
After that, I’ve been able to see the files in the directory.
Could you post this there for me, please?
– AshyRaccoon

FileZilla Forums :: View topic – always get “empty directory listing”

I do not know what happened exactly but my FTP server was not working. A FTP client connected but showed a blank directory listing. I was kind of hoping for an error message but no luck. So I checked my Comodo firewall. It looked like my Comodo firewall had updated itself but everything looked pretty normal in Comodo. I could see the FTP connections. So I checked the XAMPP installation. I recently updated it but the Filezilla portion was unchanged except for the configuration file. Everything should work but it didn’t. Finally after some fruitless troubleshooting I found this article. I changed the inbound rule to “Skip advanced security checks” and everything is back to normal.

Just when you thought it was safe to go out alone in the Linux world …

NIC Broadcom AC 131 not properly detected – Ubuntu Forums

we are also having problems with the Shuttle SS31T, we can boot from a live CD and install the OS to a IDE hard drive but the NIC and SATA are not recognised?
Do you have any tips on how to get the NIC and SATA devices working?

NIC Broadcom AC 131 not properly detected – Ubuntu Forums

I bought a Shuttle SS31T this week for a non-profit. I am turning it into a cheapo M$ terminal server. The nonprofit has lots of dumb PCs(aka Win98) but not a real PC(i.e. something made in the last 3 years) to be found.

The SS31T is a cute box and the price with a 940 D, disk drive, and a gig of memory is attractive. To make sure that everything was connected properly I booted Ubuntu’s LiveCD. Everything looked fine except for the minor details that it was not talking to the LAN and it did not see the SATA drive. The Ethernet link light was on at the back of the PC but no traffic made it through. Next I booted FreeDos. At least it could see the SATA drive. In a panic I installed a trial version of XP since my 2K3 is in transit. Whew it worked! All of the problems in the Device Manger cleared up when I installed the Shuttle drivers.

Bill’s Grand Adventure

I finally got motivated to resuscitate my Ghettobox2006. It took me a little debugging but I finally got it to recognize my SATA drive. My plan was to use this box as a general purpose Linux box running several VMware guests. The problem was that I could not get the box to boot. This was a strange problem. I had the motherboard working in another case with an IDE drive and a SATA. I moved the motherboard and the SATA drive to a new case and it would not boot. The SATA drive was not recognized by the BIOS and the drive acted like it was not getting power. I wasted a fair amount of time trying to figure out the source of the problem but eventually had to go work on higher priority tasks.

Last weekend I got an idea on how to fix the problem and went back to working on the box. My idea did not work but I did find the problem. The BIOS had the SATA controller turned off. How did that happen? Well, it boots now!

So I was off to the races. Awhile back I decided to use Centos for the host and I had already downloaded a version 5 DVD. I did not have a big reason for selecting Centos besides that I am slightly more familiar with Centos/Fedora/Redhat than I am with Ubuntu and Suse. My installation was a little unusual since I had three partitions on the disk I wanted to keep, a W2K partition, a partition with several existing virtual machines, and an empty partition for a future operating system. I had about 60 GB of free disk space left for Centos. I chose to install the standard Centos Desktop.The installation went smoothly. I was pleased to find out that I could still boot to the W2K partition from GRUB if I wanted to. Dual booting Linux and Microsoft used to be so funky.

Along the way I found a solution for an interesting Java problem. After I finished installing the operation system, I cranked up the web browser and Firefox told me that I needed the Java plugin. Reluctantly I downloaded the plugin and installed it. The Java plugin installation is about as dorky as it comes. Been there…done that…you mean I have to do this again. This is one area that Windows really shines over Linux. Surprise…surprise the Java plugin did not work. To complicate the matter there was no error message either. I was a little annoyed so I tried to open the Java control panel. It did give me an error message. It could not find libstdc++.so.5. A quick search of the Internet found two potential solutions. I could either install a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.6 or install compat-libstdc++-33. I installed the compat library since it may fix other problems I do not know about yet. I just want the standard stuff to work without a lot of fiddling. Sometimes that can quite a challenge. Now when I validate the plugin at the Java site, it worked as expected.

I will talk about my adventures with VMware in another post. I still have some kinks with the networking to work out. I was pleased to find out that all of my virtual machines worked. Even the W2K virtual machine I created using VMconverter worked.

MSKDetct.exe – Application Error – Software – Virus/Spyware – Dell Community Forum

Please follow the instructions below to run the SpamKiller removal tool. This will completely remove SpamKiller from your computer.
Download and save the MSKCleanupTool.exe to your desktop.
Locate MSKCleanupTool.exe on your desktop and double-click to launch.
to download MSKCleanupTool.exe, type the link in your URl address bar:
http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MSKCleanupTool.exe

MSKDetct.exe – Application Error – Software – Virus/Spyware – Dell Community Forum

The Comodo firewall reminded me that the standard uninstall of McAfee does not completely remove everything. MSKDetct tried to call home. I dread uninstalling virus checking programs because sometimes they don’t work. You can create a real mess with a “bad” uninstall. I downloaded the cleanup program to remove the leftovers. The log file confirmed that most of the product was already gone. There were only a few leftover programs. So far so good!

Template Menu for Word

Today I was reading the SBS Diva’s blog about a custom toolbar menu she has been using in Office 2003 for ten years. It sounded like a great idea for the Word 2003 templates I use to create business letters. My basic template prompts me to select a name from my Contacts in Outlook 2003 and then a small macro fills in the name and address fields in the letter and envelope. The template is a real time saver for me so I have created three versions of the same basic template with different letterheads and footers. I suspect this menu will be helpful if you have three or more templates you need to use on a semi-regular basis.

Recently I have been writing more letters so I am naturally interested in saving a few steps in bringing up the template. My natural work flow is to start Word, click on File-New, and then click on one of the recently used templates. This is not too bad but a custom toolbar menu is a little more intuitive and quicker. Here is how I created my toolbar menu.

  1. The first step is to create a macro that loads the template. I recorded a macro since my VBA memory is fuzzy. The macro has only one command in it so you may want to create the module from scratch and save it in the normal.dot.

    Documents.Add Template:= "\\srv1\Users\whuber\My Documents\Templates\WEHC Ltr.dot",_
            NewTemplate:=False, DocumentType:=0

  2. To create the custom toolbar, click on View-Toolbars-Customize menu item. A Customize popup window will appear. Click on the New button to create the custom toolbar. I called my toolbar, My Templates.
  3. Now we are going to place a menu in the toolbar. With the Customize popup still open click on the Commands tab. Go to the bottom of the Categories list and click on New Menu. In the Commands area drag and drop the New Menu command on to your newly created toolbar.
  4. Now we are going to fill in the menu items. The first thing we have to do is to go over to the toolbar and click on the New Menu icon to open the menu up. Go back to the Customize popup and click on the Macros item in the categories lists. You should see the macros you have created in step 1. You can now drag and drop the macros on to the open menu in your custom toolbar. When you have all of the menu items created you can now right click on the menu items and change the menu labels to something more descriptive.

I think I spent more time writing about how to create the menu than actually creating the menu. Oh well! Enjoy!