Problem Description: 
While trying to troubleshoot network issues the windows firewall appeared to be blocking network traffic, but the firewall was not enabled.  This can usually be resolved by the following article MS has posted in their Knowledge Base.

Again, remember all copyrights, etc. belong to the appropriate individuals, companies, etc.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892199

        

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Description:  After using outlook to check my mail, I close Outlook 2003 the process keeps running and the icon remains on the task tray.  If I have the option to "Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages" selected the winword.exe also remains running.  I have had this problem for a few months now and finally got tired of it and was determine to figure out what was going on. 

Problem:  After some checking of COM Add-Ins... and the Add-In Manager... I found the iTunes Outlook Addin was keeping Outlook from completely closing and allowing it to constantly check email after it was closed.

Resolution:  To resolve this issue and stop the rogue Addin from keeping outlook open for it's own use perform the following procedure:

1. If not already, open Outlook.
2. Click on Tools and select Options
3. Select the Other tab and click on the [Advanced Options...] button.
4. Click on the [COMM Add-Ins...] button.
5. De-select the iTunes Outlook Addin and click on the [Ok] button.
6. Click on the [Ok] button to close the Advance Options window.
7. Click on the [Ok] button to close the Options window.
8. Close Outlook, by click on the X in the upper right of the outlook window or select File > Exit.
9. Reboot your computer or just logout and log back in again to ensure outlook.exe is completely closed.
10. Launch outlook and verify it actually closes when you tell it too.

{PC INFO Tip}  If you are familiar with Task Manager, you can use it to ensure the outlook.exe process is closed instead of rebooting or logging off the machine.

        

FOLLOW UP:  It appears the latest Firefox update 3.5.7 may have resolved this issue.

Problem:  This is a very interesting problem that I had and it only existed in Firefox 3.  I use list to organize friends from work, home town, etc.  I recently added a friend to one of the list.   When I went back to All Friends and selected the friend list that I added them to, they did not show up.

  While checking the problem I was curious is IE 8 and Google Chome had the same problem and they did NOT.  So now I had it isolated to a FireFox problem.  I spent about an hour trying to figure out why it was not displaying.  I out of curiousity figured it might be a caching problem so I tried deleting offline files and reducing the size to 1 MB.  This made no difference and the problem still existed.  

  Out of frustration I uninstalled firefox and reinstalled it, which to my surprise the re-installing Firefox did NOT fix the problem. 

  I will post a resolution if I find it, but I just wanted to get this out there so you would know your are not crazy in case you have the same problem.

FOLLOW UP:  This is very interesting.  I didn't find a fix for firefox, but I did determine it is definetly a Firefox unique problem.  IE 8 and Google Chrome to NOT have this problem.  I have or at least tried submitting a trouble ticket to Firefox, but it was a pain.  Seems they don't take problem reports very easily. 

Anyway if you have this problem, use another browser to edit your lists. 

        

Description:

When a normal non-administrator user tries to logon to the linux machine they get the following error:
"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem."

Problem:
The /tmp directory lost it's correct persmissions.

Fix:
Open a terminal window and as root run the following command:
chmod 1777 /tmp

        

PROBLEM: 
  Unlike previous versions of Windows, Vista does not have a way to calibrate your battery for those laptops that do not have a BIOS option to do so.
  In previous version you just set all the power options to NEVER and the laptop would run until the battery completely discharges.
  In Vista the NEVER or Do Nothing option is not available for the "Critical battery action" > "On battery"
This means the only way to accomplish this is for the OS to run until all power is gone and it turns off.  I don't mean windows turns it off, but ...<< MORE >>