As always, I try to post up IT fixes that may be a little tougher to find, and only if the fix is proven to actually work, so you’re not scrolling amongst 100s of forum posts. One useful command from back in the day, “sfc /scannow” used to be used to fix corrupted files in Windows installations, although its been a bit of a meme over the past few years (decades?) in that it was almost universally suggested by online Microsoft support, yet rarely ever fixed anything. (Rarely being used liberally here – it DID work…sometimes). Yet, what happens when SFC doesn’t work, and instead spits out an error?
Continue reading “Windows Server and Corrupted Files”Fiery Print Server ignores DHCP/DNS Changes with Papercut
Another (Wasted) day…another dollar. Its not unheard of for a typical IT person to rant about dealing with printers. It seems they’re constantly the bane of any admin; not printing, needing special treatment, buggy drivers, buggy settings, etc. I often think I’m immune to a majority of the issues; I’ve been through EVERYTHING, fixed it all, and hey if I can get 1960s teletype machines working, I can get a friggin modern printer working. Well today, I was put back in my place…
Continue reading “Fiery Print Server ignores DHCP/DNS Changes with Papercut”3 Funerals and a Crappy Breakfast – My 2023
This started out just being titled 3 Funerals, but this awful breakfast on New Years eve just seemed appropriate for the finale of 2023.
Continue reading “3 Funerals and a Crappy Breakfast – My 2023”DIY Chamberlain/Liftmaster Garage MyQ Door Opener with Meross Smart Garage door Remote Module
As part of my home automation fun, I had a MyQ module paired to my garage door opener, which “wifi enabled” the opener. Once that was set up, I leveraged a plugin in Homebridge to talk to the MyQ API and present the door in Apple Homekit.
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
RIP Jedi Jim Fisher, AJ3DI
There’s been a disturbance in the force. Since my last post, my world has been rocked a bit.
Continue reading “RIP Jedi Jim Fisher, AJ3DI”At&t 513 Terminal, Part II
In the first post I mentioned the dag was missing from the monitor, so while the tube is out, lets give the monitor some attention…
Continue reading “At&t 513 Terminal, Part II”At&t Model 513 Terminal, or Teletype 56D, or…
Talk about an identity crisis! I recently stopped by the swap meet at System Source, a computer museum just outside of Baltimore, Maryland, where I picked up this eighties masterpiece of a terminal. This…style terminal I believe is known by many monikers. This actual unit is labeled an At&t “513” on the front, and “Teletype 56D” on the back. (At&t bought Teletype Corp and often branded some of their final products with At&t nomenclature.) This unit was likely paired to an At&t Definity PBX, and simliar units could also be At&t 4425 as well as many other models (likely only minor firmware tweaks between them).
Posted on it was a sign that basically mentioned it was a “barn find”, and as such, no guarantees on it working, or ever working. As I’m a glutton for punishment, naturally I bought it. (I know the seller and he gave me a good deal on it).
Let’s see what’s inside…
Continue reading “At&t Model 513 Terminal, or Teletype 56D, or…”Sharing Printers – Windows 10 22H2 – Error 0x0000709
Once again, a fun little doozy with rabbit holes leading in all the wrong directions. A typical 5 minute thing turns into a 4 hour hair-pulling exercise! Tried to share 2 printers from a Windows 10 computer to another Windows 10 computer, and the other Windows 10 computer could not access them; they showed up as shared printers, but I got the dreaded 0x000000709 (note number of zeros may be off) error whenever I tried to connect to the printer.
Doing some searching leads you to believe this was due to a security update that was pushed some time ago to mitigate Print Nightmare, or perhaps a new issue having to do with RPC in Windows 11. (Why so many Windows 11 results when I clearly put Windows 10 in the search baffles me too). The real answer? Neither (ish).
Continue reading “Sharing Printers – Windows 10 22H2 – Error 0x0000709”Whirlwind
Figured I’d put up a personal blog post, as I think one is due.
To say the last few weeks have been a whirlwind of emotions amongst other things, would certainly be an understatement. While things could have been worse, it’s just been a whirlwind of stuff going on, starting with a trip, continuing with a funeral, and other “life” things.
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