Monthly Archives: January 2012

Where to download missing Mscomct2.ocx, Msdatlst.ocx for your legacy VB6 application

If you have an old home-grown vb6 application, you may not have an installer for it. If that is the case, you will have some trouble getting it to run on a new Windows 7 computer. Chances are you are … Continue reading

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How to set REMOTE_ADDR variable in Apache2 behind an nginx proxy

A lot of people are starting to put nginx in front of apache for performance and efficiency reasons.  Unfortunately, this causes problems for some web applications.  Especially anti-spam plugins or any other application that needs to know the client’s ip … Continue reading

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Where to download 32bit adprep

When adding a Server 2008 R2 domain controller a 32 bit 2003 server the command “adprep /forestPrep” needs to be run on your 32 bit server. The adprep program comes on your 2008 R2 DVD but when you run this … Continue reading

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VMWare ESXi vmfs volume size limit

If you are using VMWare ESX or ESXi and have a single disk array that is 2 terabytes or larger, you are SOL.  You can’t use all the space. See this link: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=3371739 However, if you can reconfigure your raid … Continue reading

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