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2010 Sri Lanka holidays for Microsoft Outlook

Here is the 2010 list, made based on the 2010 desk calander published at http://documents.gov.lk
Note that the Poya days are no longer  shown as  mercantile holidays, same as  in the gov.lk calander.
If you don’t know what to do with the following list, please see the 2008 Sri Lanka Holidays post for instructions on adding this [...]

2009 Sri Lanka holidays for Microsoft Outlook

The New Year is just around the corner, and it looks like some folks just like to prepare for it in advance. So for the pleasure of those of you who like to have your Microsoft Outlook calendar ready for the next year, I’m posting the 2009 Sri Lanka holidays list a little earlier than [...]

Migrating from DasBlog to WordPress

I finally made the jump and moved on from DasBlog. This is something that I’ve been wanting to do for sometime now. I’ve been on DasBlog for around 3 years and it was great. But now it was time to move on, try something else.
I choose WordPress. For any of those who may be interested, here [...]

How to change the Symantec Endpoint Protection DB Backup Location

I shouldn’t have had to write this post, but the Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 database backup and restore utility sucks. There is no straight-forward way to change the backup destination folder!First of all, there is the official version of how to change the location of the database backup folder created by “Database Backup and Restore [...]

How to Speed-up Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Console

From the number of hits I’ve been getting on the posts on How to move Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager to another server and on How to change Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager port its seems that a lot of you seem to be in need of information on this product. So I thought I’d share with [...]

How to change Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager port

UPDATE : Starting with Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.3.2224 MR3, the default communications port for SEPM and the SEP clients is now 8014.  However, upgrading from previous versions leave this port at default 80 or 443. Aslo, a more practical and newer version of How to Change the Communications Management Port for SEPM and SEP Clients can be found at [...]

How to move Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager to another server

For various reasons you may need to move Symantec Endpoint Protection
Manager from one server to another. Another server meaning one with a different IP address and Host
name.
I needed to do this sometime back, one of the reasons being a conflict for port 80 on IIS. Windows
Server Update Services (WSUS), Self Update service accesses the WSUS
server [...]

Windows logging out immediately after logging in

Recently a friend of mine complained that he was unable to login into his PC. Windows kept logging him out just after validating the user name and password.In summary this is what happened (Windows XP Professional)-Booted up the PC. The Windows login screen appears without any problem.-Entered valid domain accounts/local accounts with and without administrative [...]

All about the “Program too big to fit in memory” error and how to fix it.

Have you ever run command line programs that claimed to be “too big to fit in memory”? I have.
Recently when I ran the command line tool gacutil.exe (Global Assembly Cache Utility) to install a .NET assembly I came across a message saying “Program too big to fit in memory”. It was strange because the error [...]

How to: Twitter on GTalk for you domain

Some of us got blown away by twitter, some of us just got annoyed that it didnt work with Google Talk for Google Apps. But surely it should work right?
For GTalk to talk with Twitter you only need to add/invite twitter@twitter.com to your Google Talk contacts. It will instantly accept the invitation and you’re only your way. It’s that simple. [...]