Formatting USB flash disk to NTFS format.

Hi guys,
this is just a quick tip, you know since the usb flash disk have grown in size, so it is able to hold a very large data.
Now the default format for the flash disk is fat32, normally you cannot change that. exfat also available but the format is not widely supported because of the need of licensing.
Now since the growing of the size, the fat format becomes a problem, because it cannot hold a single large file (must have below 4gb file size), you must split the file into not so big sized files. extfat can accept large data but again it is not widely supported by devices, and it is slower than fat32.

Manual quick start for Apache, PHP and ORACLE configuration in Windows OS

Once upon a time, in one of the class I attended, the lecturer while tinkering with the laptop, ask us in an off handed manner, if we know why the oracle express she installed cannot be connected to her program. It hit me then that several years back I had had hard time to do that, and just recently “enlighten” that different with other databases, like mysql when you installed its dbms, you can connect it right away from php, this oracle in order for it to be able to connect to the program need to have the client installed in order for php to be able to recognize the oracle.
Now for example, I need to rig this spec:
– windows xp.
– apache+php webserver.
– oracle 8i database is located in remote machine.
so let’s start configuring:

changing password policy in domain server

Just simple configuration, but I find without the manual book or “windows server for dummy” book, it actually hard to find. At least for me.
So back again, how to change the policy setting about password length? It is obviously inside the group policy setting.
now to do that, again we can open the mmc program (open run and type mmc and push enter).

Windows Error: No script engine for extension “.vbs”

Hiya all,
I’ve encountered error when I tried to uninstall some windows application.
It turned out that because the uninstallation were using vb script, so it triggered error:
No script engine for extension “.vbs”
now, reading the error it is obvious what happened right, yes it is because of file extension error.
Usually this thing won;t happened, because windows already have the script engine in:

whitelisting and blacklisting executable in windows xp

You know there are many software that put software filter management in windows computer, that restrict user to run malicious content. and not all are free.
But probably there only a few know that windows has its own software filtering tool.
Yes it is inside the group policy, here’s how:

– first open the MMC by using start>run and type MMC and click OK

– then after the mmc windows opened, fo to file>add/remove snap-in

creating windows installer in usb flashdisk

ok let us start, back early, we know about livedisk, where you can run OS from removable disk, where you dump the OS to the RAM. it was started with linux, but with bartpe windows live cd follows.
then linux introduce the use of usb for both live OS and OS installation, this took several years before we have windows 7/2008 that making installation windows using usb easy. you just need to use these four steps (two is essential):

– makes windows 7/2008 dvd ready in the drive tray.

oracle error ora-01033 : ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Ok i have this error on my oracle 8.1.7 database with oracle developer 6i R2.
This usually happened when the computer is improperly shutdown like of power failure or BSOD.
Been searching on the internet most of the solution is to connect straight to sqlplus, like this:

– open the command prompt.
– in “c:\>”, type “sqlplus /nolog”
– in “sql>” type connect / as sysdba

Now this is the problem, based on the tutorial it should generate “connected” status, even though i’ve tried using the proper form of “connect sys/manager as sysdba” it still generating TNS error.

unknown IP Address randomly pop up in the LAN creating IP conflict

for months we were confused by IP address conflict happened with our servers (we are implementing static IP in our LAN). So like usual we were trying to locate what was the culprit. to make it easier for us we just use the portable software netscan.

windows 2000 can only detect HDD up to 128 Gb

Well microsoft says that it is because they purposely limit the detection mode, so the 48-bit mode is in disable state.
must have SP4 installed first (for XP must have at least sp2 i think).

SATA drive runs very slow in server with SAS.

SAS and SATA are using the same power and data slot. SAS HDD cannot be detected if you plug the SATA cable, but SATA can be detected fine when you plug SAS cable. I haven’t put any though about it until when I installed database on the SATA drive that was plugged to SAS cable. when I imported the data to the database it took all night long to finish then what normally only 30 minutes.