KB2481109 fails to install, With Error Message “Condition Check for Line 2 of PreRequisite returned FALSE”

The fol­low­ing is an error our client received while installing updates. At our clients request, we started our diag­no­sis by first review­ing the error logs, which led use to the log file that was pro­duced by the mal­func­tion­ing pro­gram. The log was located at C:/Windows/KB2481109.log. After review­ing the log, and a bit of Gog­gling, we […]

Mystery Drive Q…

After a good deal of head scratch­ing, we were able to fix this issue. In one instance, this prob­lem was caused by the install of Office 2010, if this is what in fact led you to this arti­cle, you’re in for a good deal more head scratch­ing, to the point of a bleed­ing scalp. Another […]

Review of TP-LINK’s TL-WR1043ND Wireless Router, Power Packed and Feature Rich

After writ­ing a review on Newegg.com regard­ing this router, we fig­ured it was worth men­tion­ing in our blog. It’s rare that a prod­uct catches the eye of the Guru’s. But this router stands out from the pack. With a com­bi­na­tion of low price, unmatched fea­tures, and all around func­tion­al­ity, make TP-LINK’s TL-WR1043ND wire­less router a […]

PNRPsvc Failed To Start, HomeGroup and Peer Name Resolution service Problems

We recently con­fig­ured a cus­tom sys­tem for a client using Win­dows 7 Home Pre­mium. Every­thing was run­ning great until recently when our client said they were receiv­ing blue screen errors, and hav­ing net­work prob­lems. A quick review of the error logs showed that the prob­lems were all stem­ming from Peer Net­work­ing Ser­vice, PNRPsvc, and other […]

Having Strange Errors Utilizing Gzip in WordPress 2.9 and 2.9.1?

For­tu­nately your not alone. A recent bug fix was just released which addresses an error which is received while updat­ing the Word­Press core, as well as Word­Press plu­g­ins. This error typ­i­cally effects http.php, located at wp-includes/http.php, and looks sim­i­lar to the code listed below.

Disable Microsoft Software Wavetable Synthesizer, My Music’s Cutting Out…

Speaker-Properties-Sounds

We recently encoun­tered a sys­tem that had an inter­mit­tent sound prob­lem. After run­ning for a few days, any music played would fade and recover repeat­edly. After research­ing the prob­lem, we started with a typ­i­cal round of updates to the usual sus­pects. Those being sound card dri­vers, codec’s, any media player soft­ware being uti­lized for playback. […]

Force Nextgen Gallery To Crop Thumbnails From The Top Of The Image… **Updated**

In our orig­i­nal post, we sim­ply deleted a line to change the start­ing posi­tion of NextGEN’s thumb­nail crop. With the most recent ver­sion of NextGEN Gallery,1.4.3 at the time of this update. While this was a func­tional fix, it was gen­er­at­ing errors. So here’s our much improved, and clean fix.

Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog…

The first half of this arti­cle will be taken directly from our pre­vi­ous post, as the need for a sin­gle default php.ini is nec­es­sary to con­fig­ure gzip. If read­ing our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already con­fig­ured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htac­cess por­tion of the post. […]

The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento

We wrote this arti­cle in response to post­ings offer­ing advice to users of Magento, an open source ecom­merce sys­tem. The advice is being given with good inten­tions, and the intent is only to assist their fel­low Magento users. But the advice being give may actu­ally have the poten­tial cause harm to the users site, or […]

Protect Magento Pages

We recently built a site with a whole­sale area, uti­liz­ing the “Login Only Cat­a­log Exten­sion” and the “Cus­tomer Acti­va­tion Exten­sion”. While this did pro­tect our whole­sale inven­tory from pry­ing eyes, it still left a few pages vis­i­ble to the gen­eral pub­lic. For­tu­nately we found a fix that addressed this issue, and allowed us to secure […]