Fix 1:
Right click My Computer, go to Manage > Shared Folders > Open Files and close any shares to files with the extensions ICC or ICM.
If that doesn't work, try:
Fix 2:
The file c:\windows\system32\icm32.dll is corrupted. Replace with a backup. Search your Windows directory for copies of icm32.dll
You can also try:
Fix 3:
In C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color, right-click on the sRGB Color Space Profile.icm file and click Uninstall Profile. Right-click again and then click Install Profile.
"The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty." -Ieuan Brydydd Hir ********************* "Biblical piety is not really pious; one must rather characterize it as well-considered, qualified worldliness." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Monday, May 13, 2013
Sunday, May 05, 2013
IBM i Series Access Error CWBSY1011: Kerberos client credentials not found on Windows 7
Follow the instructions HERE.
If IBM changes their website, here is a copy of the solution:
Resolving the problem
This is specifically related to Windows 7. The following Windows 7 configuration changes need to be made.
In Administrative Tools select
Local Security policy > Security settings > Local policies > Security options
Select Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication level and change it to "Send LM & NTLM responses"
In Internet Explorer, Internet Options > Advanced, Enable Integrated authentication
(I don't know if this IE setting really applies or not.)
The Network security: Configure encryption types allowed for Kerberos under Security Options likely is set to "No minimum". This needs to have DES_CBC_CRC turned on at minimum for Kerberos authentication to work properly.
(I had to enable all encryption types to resolve the error.)
Related TechNet article
If IBM changes their website, here is a copy of the solution:
Resolving the problem
This is specifically related to Windows 7. The following Windows 7 configuration changes need to be made.
In Administrative Tools select
Local Security policy > Security settings > Local policies > Security options
Select Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication level and change it to "Send LM & NTLM responses"
In Internet Explorer, Internet Options > Advanced, Enable Integrated authentication
(I don't know if this IE setting really applies or not.)
The Network security: Configure encryption types allowed for Kerberos under Security Options likely is set to "No minimum". This needs to have DES_CBC_CRC turned on at minimum for Kerberos authentication to work properly.
(I had to enable all encryption types to resolve the error.)
Related TechNet article
Friday, April 19, 2013
Clonezilla Refuses to Mount Network Share
If you are creating custom menu options in the Clonezilla menu that include mounting a network share, but it refuses to mount (and you only get savedisk - savepart - exit options) check the password. If it contains any special characters, especially an exclamation point, try not specifying the password in the mount command--just specify the username by using "user=username" instead of "user=username,password=password". On boot, you will be asked for the password. Enter it, and the share should mount. If it does, then your password is confusing the command parser. You will need to change the password to eliminate special characters or live with having to enter the password on every boot.
(If it doesn't mount, you have the password wrong. :) )
One website says you can try to get around this issue by doing "user=username%password" instead of "user=username,password", but that method was not successful for me.
I wasted upwards of 6 hours on this issue before figuring this out. However, I was unable to change the password as it is embedded in other software. So I simply created a second account with all the same access on the server but with a simpler password, and used that instead.
(If it doesn't mount, you have the password wrong. :) )
One website says you can try to get around this issue by doing "user=username%password" instead of "user=username,password", but that method was not successful for me.
I wasted upwards of 6 hours on this issue before figuring this out. However, I was unable to change the password as it is embedded in other software. So I simply created a second account with all the same access on the server but with a simpler password, and used that instead.
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Windows XP Repair Option not Available
Things to try when the repair option is not available in Windows XP setup:
1. Run chkdsk c: /r
2. Boot into the recovery console and use bootcfg to make sure your boot.ini is valid.
3. Copy ntdetect.com and ntldr to c:\ from the i386 folder of the setup disc
1. Run chkdsk c: /r
2. Boot into the recovery console and use bootcfg to make sure your boot.ini is valid.
3. Copy ntdetect.com and ntldr to c:\ from the i386 folder of the setup disc
Netflix Black Screen on Android Devices
Steps to resolve a black screen with audio when playing back Netflix on an Android Device:
1. Stop the app then relaunch.
2. Restart the phone.
3. Remove and reinsert the battery.
4. Uninstall and reinstall the app.
1. Stop the app then relaunch.
2. Restart the phone.
3. Remove and reinsert the battery.
4. Uninstall and reinstall the app.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Where Evangelicalism Shoots Itself in the Foot
In homage to the born-again experience and in search of a
deeply personal savior, evangelicals and fundamentalists (hereby referred to as
fundagelicals) make Christianity a very personal thing. It must happen within
the person at the point of conversion and the experience must continue within
the person through a personal relationship with God.
Fundagelicals also insist upon the authority of the
Scriptures. This authority is presumed to have direct import on the
fundagelical's life. However, the nature of doctrine within fundagelical
circles removes the determination and application of Scriptural mandates from
the individual's purview. Hence such things as statements of faith, church
covenants, etc. The body of doctrine espoused by any fundagelical sect forms a
creed, whether it is considered a creed or not. The nature of church and church
membership holds the fundagelical to whatever such creeds are delivered by the
church leadership (either local or denominational).
The battleground of what is up to personal determination
versus what is important to establish as a matter of communal creed is akin to
the fight over what doctrines are fundamental or not. This and the discussion
of heretics in the New Testament inform us that doctrinal stringency is
oftentimes less a matter of unity and more an issue of power. The Apostle Paul
specifically speaks of heretics as divisive persons who use disputed issues as
wedges to draw people after themselves. One is justified to think that the
oft-used justification of unity for doctrinal stringency is normally a cover
for what is at least a benign attempt to consolidate power.
This relates back to our topic of the individual nature of
the fundagelical faith in that the very authenticity of the individual
Christian experience is judged on the basis of communal creeds that may or may
not reflect the actual experience and mindset of the believer. Attempts by
individual believers at living authentically in any manner inconsistent with
communal creeds invite swift condemnation of that person's individual Christian
experience.
The importance of the individual Christian experience within
fundagelicalism is seen then as less of a call to authenticity and more of a
tool to prod followers into internalizing the creeds espoused by the church community.
It is a form of take-home catechism realized through the type of endless
self-comparison with others that the Apostle Paul so roundly condemned as
unwise.
Indoctrination and catechism must happen in any religion but
to do it in a system and through means that pretend to exalt the importance of
individual religious experience is inconsistent. In any case, fundagelicals are
left church hopping in search of authenticity, endlessly looking for some
community with a creed that validates their personal experience and
understanding.
Perhaps some may complain that I am confusing the importance
of a personal relationship with God with some notion of personal authenticity
and understanding that doesn't really exist within fundagelicalism. If that is
the case, then perhaps the whole situation is best understood as
fundagelicalism completely missing the connection between relationship and
authenticity. In the pursuit of holiness is common to compensate for the
difficulty of such an endeavor by pretending to succeed even when one is not,
or by keeping the externals polished even when one is seething with vile
feelings on the inside. Yet we should not confuse the maintenance of a facade
with evidence of the real thing. The fundagelicals' God is (supposedly) still one
that looks inside the hearts of men.
The more consistent route is to centralize catechism through
formalization (think Catholics and liberal Protestants). But this is anathema
to fundagelicals. Also anathema is alternate solution of a thoroughgoing ecumenicalism.
Both solutions together--a formalized catechism and a thoroughgoing
ecumenicalism--provide a strong measure of both objective clarity and love. It
also allows one to be searching spiritually without the imminent threat of
rejection or the existential dilemma that occurs when the uncertain Christian
is forced to look at their own personal spirituality as the ultimate barometer
for whether they are in the faith or not.
One's personal spirituality is an extension of faith, not
the measure of it. Believers are first and foremost in Christ and of His body,
and the necessary grace for life flows through both.
Spiritual narcissism is dangerous...
Saturday, August 04, 2012
An Update
Sorry if my blog has been slow loading lately. I had to rip out some third-party scripts that were holding up page loads. It all seems better now.
In other news, I have been avoiding Christianity for several months, except to go to church with my family. As this blog has been about my spiritual reflections, mostly, I have had no new content. So until I start paying attention to this stuff again, or have something else to report, I don't foresee having anything to say.
In other news, I have been avoiding Christianity for several months, except to go to church with my family. As this blog has been about my spiritual reflections, mostly, I have had no new content. So until I start paying attention to this stuff again, or have something else to report, I don't foresee having anything to say.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
SORT Out Your Marriage
I am no marriage expert. I can only be thankful for the 4+ years of marriage to my wonderful wife. The following list came to me the other day as I considered what is important in marriage:
Stability
Openness
Respect
Time
The first letters form the word "SORT." Now what do I mean by these things?
STABILITY
This factor involves the situational and financial aspect of your marriage. Stable living arrangements and finances provide security. Without this basic stability it is hard to focus on more advanced issues in your relationship. Without this basic stability it is easy to lose respect for your spouse or even yourself. Lack of basic stability brings life into question in profound ways.
It doesn't matter your living conditions, be they humble or grand. What is important is that you are secure and stable in what you do have. Money is required for stability and more of it can make things easier but it can also destabilize you as well.
Stability also has a geographical dimension. Our surroundings are a huge part of our feeling of stability. If you keep hopping from one city to the next, or one house or apartment to the next, you lose emotional stability as regards your day-to-day life and your friendships.
Setting down good roots and keeping finances in order is very important for marriage.
OPENNESS
This one could just as well be labeled transparency. Emotional and personal intimacy is just as important and physical intimacy. You can't have a relationship without understanding each other and you can't understand each other if you don't know each other.
One major barrier to openness is fear of what the other will think. If one spouse tends to condemn or control this will almost always put the brakes on openness. If a spouse feels condemned or controlled then that needs to be worked out so that both spouses can feel free to be open again. Sometimes the fear of condemnation or control is imaginary; the spouse has never really exhibited such tendencies; in such cases the fearful spouse perhaps is transferring the experience of another friend or relative onto their partner. Ultimately, any barrier to openness needs to be carefully analyzed and dealt with.
If you aren't fully open, you will drift apart, because your closeness, such as it will be, will only be with fake versions of yourselves. This is a road to divorce.
Insignificant secrets tend to snowball to include important facts. Being honest with yourself, and then honest about yourself with your partner, is very important to marriage.
RESPECT
Respect is holding someone in high esteem despite their differences. In many ways, respect is also "unity in diversity." Your spouse is royalty; each spouse should honor and serve the other not as VIPs (Very Important Persons) but MIPs (Most Important Persons). This treatment should not change if you disagree about things. If there is disagreement, respect means you approach the other with the intention of conciliation and compromise and NOT getting your way. You cannot have freedom without respect in much the same way that control or condemnation cannot exist alongside of respect. There is always a way. Love will find a way, as your love is manifested in admiration and ultimately, as true respect even when you don't feel particularly loving.
So then, respect means holding your spouse to be your equal, regardless of differences. You may have different strengths and weaknesses, but you are equal. If you do not believe this, you should not be married. Since you are equal, your decisions should be shared, instead of unilateral. Your openness and time together along with respect should result in you discussing nearly every decision (and ALL serious decisions) with your spouse.
Respect is a significant factor in a successful marriage.
TIME
Spending time together is essential. Relationships don't thrive on autopilot. Yet couples get themselves so involved in other things and assume everything will be okay. However, doing that is basically taking each other for granted.
An hour a day, an afternoon together each week--carve out daily and weekly time with your spouse. You don't have to do anything except snuggle or watch a TV show or eat or just lay in bed and talk. Your togetherness will foster personal and emotional intimacy which will often lead to intimacy of another kind!
This time you spend with each other will result in you connecting on all kinds of levels, sometimes talking out important issues, sometimes just laughing, sometimes just being together.
Time together is like a service station for your marriage. All kinds of repairs and preventative maintenance happen here. It is a very important part of marriage that you can't overlook.
Stability
Openness
Respect
Time
The first letters form the word "SORT." Now what do I mean by these things?
STABILITY
This factor involves the situational and financial aspect of your marriage. Stable living arrangements and finances provide security. Without this basic stability it is hard to focus on more advanced issues in your relationship. Without this basic stability it is easy to lose respect for your spouse or even yourself. Lack of basic stability brings life into question in profound ways.
It doesn't matter your living conditions, be they humble or grand. What is important is that you are secure and stable in what you do have. Money is required for stability and more of it can make things easier but it can also destabilize you as well.
Stability also has a geographical dimension. Our surroundings are a huge part of our feeling of stability. If you keep hopping from one city to the next, or one house or apartment to the next, you lose emotional stability as regards your day-to-day life and your friendships.
Setting down good roots and keeping finances in order is very important for marriage.
OPENNESS
This one could just as well be labeled transparency. Emotional and personal intimacy is just as important and physical intimacy. You can't have a relationship without understanding each other and you can't understand each other if you don't know each other.
One major barrier to openness is fear of what the other will think. If one spouse tends to condemn or control this will almost always put the brakes on openness. If a spouse feels condemned or controlled then that needs to be worked out so that both spouses can feel free to be open again. Sometimes the fear of condemnation or control is imaginary; the spouse has never really exhibited such tendencies; in such cases the fearful spouse perhaps is transferring the experience of another friend or relative onto their partner. Ultimately, any barrier to openness needs to be carefully analyzed and dealt with.
If you aren't fully open, you will drift apart, because your closeness, such as it will be, will only be with fake versions of yourselves. This is a road to divorce.
Insignificant secrets tend to snowball to include important facts. Being honest with yourself, and then honest about yourself with your partner, is very important to marriage.
RESPECT
Respect is holding someone in high esteem despite their differences. In many ways, respect is also "unity in diversity." Your spouse is royalty; each spouse should honor and serve the other not as VIPs (Very Important Persons) but MIPs (Most Important Persons). This treatment should not change if you disagree about things. If there is disagreement, respect means you approach the other with the intention of conciliation and compromise and NOT getting your way. You cannot have freedom without respect in much the same way that control or condemnation cannot exist alongside of respect. There is always a way. Love will find a way, as your love is manifested in admiration and ultimately, as true respect even when you don't feel particularly loving.
So then, respect means holding your spouse to be your equal, regardless of differences. You may have different strengths and weaknesses, but you are equal. If you do not believe this, you should not be married. Since you are equal, your decisions should be shared, instead of unilateral. Your openness and time together along with respect should result in you discussing nearly every decision (and ALL serious decisions) with your spouse.
Respect is a significant factor in a successful marriage.
TIME
Spending time together is essential. Relationships don't thrive on autopilot. Yet couples get themselves so involved in other things and assume everything will be okay. However, doing that is basically taking each other for granted.
An hour a day, an afternoon together each week--carve out daily and weekly time with your spouse. You don't have to do anything except snuggle or watch a TV show or eat or just lay in bed and talk. Your togetherness will foster personal and emotional intimacy which will often lead to intimacy of another kind!
This time you spend with each other will result in you connecting on all kinds of levels, sometimes talking out important issues, sometimes just laughing, sometimes just being together.
Time together is like a service station for your marriage. All kinds of repairs and preventative maintenance happen here. It is a very important part of marriage that you can't overlook.
Abe's of Maine Review: The Real Deal
Your order will not be shipped until you have been called with upsells.
I denied all upsells the first time. I declined the memory upsell because I already had memory. Then he offered the warranty. I hadn't planned on purchasing the warranty so I declined. He made me feel bad for declining without finding out the price. I let him tell me the price, but still declined. He ended by saying that my order would be shipped and the tracking number would be sent to me.
The second time, another guy started down the same upsell path, acting like my package was ready to go. I told him I didn't need the memory. Since I was 1) on the fence about the warranty and 2) felt like I might get better service/faster processing if I caved to an upsell, I specifically asked about 3-yr laptop warranty with ADH, and bought it after negotiating down the pricing, which ended up being the same price as if I had bought it on my own from SquareTrade.
I then went to lunch and started second guessing the additional money I spent on the warranty. I have succeeded in mostly justifying it to myself, as the average laptop out-off-warranty hardware repair is usually at least $100-120. It's just that I wasn't prepared to spend that money right now.
I imagine that their low prices are subsidized through these types of upsells. If you intend to decline all upsells, you should expect multiple calls, and for your order to be held up until they give up. A coworker of mine made the observation that such upsell calls are a potential misuse of my personal information. I think they are operating in a gray area in this matter.
All this was on a Friday. On Monday, the order status said "Sent to Warehouse". Tuesday morning, the order status said "Shipped" with Monday's date, but no tracking number. After lunch Tuesday, I received a UPS Quantum Ship notification with the tracking number. The link said that the label was created but UPS hadn't received the package yet. So it was obviously being shipped on Tuesday, not Monday as the order status indicated. Since my package is being tendered to UPS on Tuesday, I wouldn’t receive it until the next Monday. The kicker is that the two upsell calls I received on Friday gave the impression that my order was ready to ship.
In contrast to this, I placed an order for memory on TigerDirect on Friday about 15 minutes prior to placing my order on Abe's, and it was scheduled to show up on Thursday.
Between the time I placed my order and the time it arrived I received NINE advertisement emails trying to get me to buy more stuff.
The sad part about this is that Abe's really failed to build a relationship with me. They were too focused on upselling me to process my order quickly. Then they keep trying to sell me stuff while I wait. I was too uncomfortable with that to use them again.
The package arrived in good shape. The box was reused, and the printing on the box indicated that it was originally used to ship meat. This seemed a bit unprofessional. Inside the box, was the laptop in the manufacturer's box with the manufacturer's seal intact, a packing slip, and the extended warranty paperwork.
If you review Abe's of Maine reviews online, they tend to fall toward extremes... great experience or challenging experience. Given my experience with Abe's matches the negative reviewers, and the fact that the positive reviews mostly are 5-star one-liners, I suspect Abe's of posting their own positive reviews.
For this reason, I am posting my review on my blog, or else it will just lost in an avalanche of positive reviews that result in an overall higher rating that I do not feel appropriately represents the company.
I denied all upsells the first time. I declined the memory upsell because I already had memory. Then he offered the warranty. I hadn't planned on purchasing the warranty so I declined. He made me feel bad for declining without finding out the price. I let him tell me the price, but still declined. He ended by saying that my order would be shipped and the tracking number would be sent to me.
The second time, another guy started down the same upsell path, acting like my package was ready to go. I told him I didn't need the memory. Since I was 1) on the fence about the warranty and 2) felt like I might get better service/faster processing if I caved to an upsell, I specifically asked about 3-yr laptop warranty with ADH, and bought it after negotiating down the pricing, which ended up being the same price as if I had bought it on my own from SquareTrade.
I then went to lunch and started second guessing the additional money I spent on the warranty. I have succeeded in mostly justifying it to myself, as the average laptop out-off-warranty hardware repair is usually at least $100-120. It's just that I wasn't prepared to spend that money right now.
I imagine that their low prices are subsidized through these types of upsells. If you intend to decline all upsells, you should expect multiple calls, and for your order to be held up until they give up. A coworker of mine made the observation that such upsell calls are a potential misuse of my personal information. I think they are operating in a gray area in this matter.
All this was on a Friday. On Monday, the order status said "Sent to Warehouse". Tuesday morning, the order status said "Shipped" with Monday's date, but no tracking number. After lunch Tuesday, I received a UPS Quantum Ship notification with the tracking number. The link said that the label was created but UPS hadn't received the package yet. So it was obviously being shipped on Tuesday, not Monday as the order status indicated. Since my package is being tendered to UPS on Tuesday, I wouldn’t receive it until the next Monday. The kicker is that the two upsell calls I received on Friday gave the impression that my order was ready to ship.
In contrast to this, I placed an order for memory on TigerDirect on Friday about 15 minutes prior to placing my order on Abe's, and it was scheduled to show up on Thursday.
Between the time I placed my order and the time it arrived I received NINE advertisement emails trying to get me to buy more stuff.
The sad part about this is that Abe's really failed to build a relationship with me. They were too focused on upselling me to process my order quickly. Then they keep trying to sell me stuff while I wait. I was too uncomfortable with that to use them again.
The package arrived in good shape. The box was reused, and the printing on the box indicated that it was originally used to ship meat. This seemed a bit unprofessional. Inside the box, was the laptop in the manufacturer's box with the manufacturer's seal intact, a packing slip, and the extended warranty paperwork.
If you review Abe's of Maine reviews online, they tend to fall toward extremes... great experience or challenging experience. Given my experience with Abe's matches the negative reviewers, and the fact that the positive reviews mostly are 5-star one-liners, I suspect Abe's of posting their own positive reviews.
For this reason, I am posting my review on my blog, or else it will just lost in an avalanche of positive reviews that result in an overall higher rating that I do not feel appropriately represents the company.
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