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I’ve been wrestling with a course restore problem on Moodle 2.4.2 and Moodle 2.5. Basically you can take a course backup fine, but when trying to restore it, it will timeout, and fail to restore the course at all or may only restore a small segment of it. Of course it fails, with no entries … Read more

I’m not a huge fan of Moodle, its basically a unsupportable mess. However the price: Free, is very appealing in the times of no money and so we are stuck with using it. One of the nice features is that of SSO using NTLM authentication. We use Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5 and … Read more

I was setting up an SSL certificate for secure administration on a Barracuda Networks Load Balancer appliance. Normally Barracuda’s products are very easy to everything, but the Secure Administration certificate install was a bit of a head scratcher. The documentation on their support site seems to miss out a key step of the install, it … Read more

This post details about relational theory relationships. I’ve struggled to find on the Internet any decent explanations of what these are in simplistic terms which are degree/masters degree level, and not primary school or PhD examples! I’ll introduce the types of relationship, with some simple examples showing how the relational theory of relationships is actually … Read more

After the upgrade to ProSolution 9.2, I found that the tasks we ran which used PowerShell with the ProSolution Worker Service failed with the following error message: Error:  – System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.PSSnapInException: An error occurred when loading the system Windows PowerShell Snap-Ins. Please contact Microsoft Support Services. —> System.Management.Automation.PSArgumentException: Unable to access Windows PowerShell PowerShellEngine registry information. … Read more

After the upgrade you may find that the Windows Authentication has stopped working. To fix this you need to performing the following steps: (This is for Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5) 1. Open IIS Manager. 2.Click on the ProAchieve website, then click on Authentication, ensure the following settings are set: Anonymous Authentication = Disabled … Read more

When using PCounter you have a separate queue that will take the job from the client; this is then passed to the queue that relates to the printer identified by the swipe card box the user swiped their card through. I.e. you print to a holding queue, the job stays there until you swipe your … Read more

I always get the plug types confused. A IEC C14 plug (shown below) connects to an IEC C13 socket. This type of socket has a maximum power load of 13 amps. An IEC C20 plug (shown below) connects to an IEC C19 socket. This type of socket has a maximum power load of 16 amps.

To setup the NTP settings for the storage domain, you need to open Navisphere, then click on “file”, then click on “Set up Domain…” Then from this menu, select “NTP”, within this dialog, configure your organisation’s NTP server(s). I set a sync time of 1 hour. Once this is done, apply the settings and wait. … Read more

I’ve been with plus.net for my ADSL broadband for a few years, I was working at home more and was finding my current broadband speeds were giving me problems with some of the work I was trying to do. I was getting about 6.5Mbps download and a 0.3Mbps upload. Not too bad but I really … Read more