Archive for January, 2008

Weird scrolling issue with Modalpopupextender

By Jamsi • Jan 21st, 2008 • Category: ASP.NET

Are you ripping your hair out over a issue with the AJAX modalpopupextender and a never-ending scrollbar?!? I had a panel with a style=absolute in the style= tag, causing the popup to show in the middle of the page. But for some reason, the page went wonky and I could scroll endlessly!
Here’s the fix;
I changed [...]



Kaspersky Anti-Spam Error - Failed to clear reserve dir

By Jamsi • Jan 3rd, 2008 • Category: Kaspersky

I noticed that on one of the firewalls I work on, that the Anti-Spam updates were failing. The logs revealed;

[03-01-2008 12:25:57 A] File ‘upd_terms_recent.trb.bz2′ downloaded
[03-01-2008 12:25:57 E] Failed to clear reserve dir
[03-01-2008 12:25:57 F] Update ‘Kaspersky Anti-Spam 3.0′ failed
I fixed it by deleting the local update database and then manually starting an update.
mail:# rm -rf [...]



Reset HP iLO Administrator Password

By Jamsi • Jan 2nd, 2008 • Category: Windows 2K3 Server

So I forgot the iLO password .. and rather than opening up the machine and flipping the switch thingy, I gave the advice in this article a whirl .. and what do you know, it worked fine!

http://blog.netnerds.net/2006/04/ribcl-reset-administrator-password-on-ilo/
And for those running 2003 64bit, you can grab the Lights-Out Online Configuration Utility from here.