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Email Attachments Coming In As .Bin Files

Posted on December 22, 2016May 6, 2017 By ninjatechnyc

Problem: Had a user who was sending attachments (in this case they were MS Word documents with a .doc extension) through Outlook 2010. Some (not all) external recipients who were on Outlook Office 365 were receiving the attachments as .BIN files: Solution: On the Exchange server, for Remote Domains, tell it never to use RTF:

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Convert Unix [Epoch] time to human readible form

Posted on November 6, 2015September 2, 2019 By ninjatechnyc

Ran into a situation where I needed to read logs that had Unix time stamps. So I needed something that converted the time stamps to standard date/time format. I wrote up a small VB widget to do the job. Hopefully it can be useful for others. It’s a work in progress : ) You enter…

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Batch Copy Logs From Server At Multiple Intervals Using Task Scheduler

Posted on June 12, 2015 By ninjatechnyc

I came across a situation where a vendor wanted logs files from a server at around 2am in the morning to troubleshoot why an application wasn’t sending a specific email at that time. Problem was, I wasn’t planning on being up at that early in the morning to grab log files and I didn’t know…

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Internet Explorer 8 Crashes on Manage Add-Ons

Posted on June 13, 2012 By ninjatechnyc

Problem: In IE8, when you click to Tools –> Manage Add-Ons, Internet Explorer crashes with a Data Execution Prevention error. Symptoms: Application Event Logs show Event ID 1000 – Faulting Application iexplore.exe I tried reinstalling IE8, but that did not help Solution: For me, the problem was due to a faulty ActiveX control or Java…

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Netflix Changing DVD Service Name To “Qwikster”?

Posted on September 19, 2011 By ninjatechnyc

Update: Netflix does a rewind! Abandons the Qwikster plan… Got an email from, Netflix. They’re changing their DVD service name to “Qwikster”? Really? But the same lousy pricing? Here’s the email: Dear xxxx, I messed up. I owe you an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members…

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Install Sun Java Plugin For Firefox in Ubuntu

Posted on May 7, 2011 By ninjatechnyc

I loaded Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Remix onto my Dell Inspiron. And though it comes with OpenJDK 6, I wanted to load Sun Java 6 Plugin. You can see what versions of java are on your system by typing the java -version command in a Terminal window. Here are the simple steps I followed [writtern for…

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ID Theft – And So It Begins…

Posted on May 1, 2011 By ninjatechnyc

I’ve written about ID theft before. Never thought I’d experience it, first hand. But I guess it’s bound to happen to everyone, the way they’re hacking nowadays. Found out yesterday, some wonderful slime ball walked into an Apple Store last week, used my SS# and driver’s license# to open a couple of AT&T Mobile Wireless…

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500 Internal Server Error

Posted on April 30, 2011 By ninjatechnyc 2 Comments on 500 Internal Server Error

Got a personal website hosted on Godaddy that all of a sudden started giving me 500 Internal Server Error: I have the domain and hosting at Godaddy – Economy Linux hosting. I use WordPress as the front end. Not the WordPress setup they offer, but I uploaded my own WordPress files, setup a MySQL db,…

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Switch To GNOME From Unity

Posted on April 29, 2011 By ninjatechnyc 1 Comment on Switch To GNOME From Unity

I know Ubuntu folks are touting Unity as the new desktop theme, but it doesn’t work well on the netbook where real estate is limited. The Launch Pad on the left seems very inflexible. With it, using a web browser [ in this case firefox ] seems difficult. The best option for me was to…

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Firefox 3.6.16 Back Button Not Working

Posted on March 26, 2011 By ninjatechnyc 6 Comments on Firefox 3.6.16 Back Button Not Working

McAfee Site Advisor Add-On broke my back button in Firefox! Everything was fine and dandy until, my Firefox was updated to 3.6.16.  All of a sudden, the back button wasn’t working. Sooo, if I searched for something via Google, and clicked on a found link, I couldn’t go back to the search results page if…

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