Quicken 2009 Scheduled Transaction Bug
Last night, for the second time in less than a month my Quicken data file was hosed up by a bug in Quicken 2009 R6. The bug causes a single scheduled transaction to automatically keep entering itself into the register when starting Quicken. Quicken looks like it freezes but what’s actually happening is the scheduled transaction is being entered one after another on into the future until you kill Quicken.
The first time this happened, our monthly utility bill was entered every month up to the year 4800. This causes the QDF file to grow huge. Mine went from 12 MB to 120 MB. The second time this happened one of our scheduled deposits entered 300 years into the future before I realized what was happening and killed Quicken. The QDF file had grown to 30 MB this time.
The fix is to:
1. Backup your quicken data files!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. Set your system clock back to 12/31/2008.
3. Open quicken.
4. Delete the problem scheduled transaction.
5. Set your system clock back to current date.
6. Open quicken and run a verify on the data file.
7. Delete all the erroneously entered scheduled transaction – in the register, filter by date into the future ~300 years at a time (more than that and Quicken will crash), highlight them all and delete. Do that changing the date filter until all the bad transactions are gone.
8. Recreate the scheduled transaction you previously deleted.
9. Run verify again.
Your QDF file will still be huge so I did a File -> File Operations -> Copy. The new copy won’t have all the empty space from those hundreds/thousands of years of transactions you just deleted. Use the new copy as your active Quicken file.
Intuit has a support article on this issue with similar instructions but I can’t find it now.
We’ve changed all our scheduled transactions to be reminders, not automatically entered. This is a highly annoying bug. Intuit sucks.
I found the Intuit support article: Quicken freezes when attempting to open a data file created prior to 1/1/09
Open-source sucks?
Open-source in the corporate environment? My years in corporate IT have taught me that having a support contact from a major vendor is very desirable. Corporate wants/mandates the safety net of that vendor support contract.
Companies can employ the talent to develop and maintain open-source products. But that talent can leave at ANYTIME. That’s the problem with open-source in the corporate environment.
Moving Team Foundation to a new server
Good write up of steps here.
SPN, Service Principal Names, SetSPN, Kerberos
Recently migrated a webserver to a different domain and immediately started having trouble with Windows User authentication using IE.
Worked fine with Firefox or with IE if you used the IP address of the webserver. Just not with IE using the NetBIOS or FQDN of the webserver. Ended up being SPN and Kerberos issues.
Read this.
This is also useful.
How to Troubleshoot Outlook
Learn Powershell
Windows Powershell Owner’s Manual
Conficker Worm
Get ready for April 1st.
Conficker Worm: Help Protect Windows from Conficker.A and Conficker.B
Save Wireless Profile to USB in XP
Royal TS
Royal TS is a tool for organizing multiple terminal services sessions.
“…a simple and easy way to organize, connect and switch between remote desktops.”
Loading Ubuntu Server on G4 Powerbook
Slightly tricky as Ubuntu 8.10 server doesn’t recognize the cd-rom drive.
First, the Ubuntu server download is available here.
Second, the fix so the install will recognize the cd-rom is here. The important part is this:
“The cd issue could be solved in my imac G3 slot-loading typing in the command prompt (switch to another virtual screen with Ctrl-Alt-F2):
modprobe ide-scsi
then when asked for a cd device answer /dev/scd0″
That worked on my 667 mhz G4 titanium DVI Powerbook also.
Tips for upgrading from TFS2005 to TFS2008
Great tips on this site.
SQL Server configuration disk layout – best practices from field
Other good articles in the blog linked…
geek essays
W2k8’s network stack is that much faster?
Why use the Netapp implementation of NFS for VMware instead of using VMFS volumes over FC or iSCSI
SQL Server on VMware Server
Terminal Services clipboard
Good info on the Terminal Services clipboard
Windows Server 2008 on VMware Server
I received a copy of Windows Server 2008 at a recent Microsoft Heroes Happen event. I successfully installed it on VMware Server 1.0.5 but couldn’t get it on the network. I found in the VMware forums that you have to add this line to the .vmx file of the virtual machine:
ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″
Rebooted the virtual machine and the VM was on the network right away. Tricky.
On a side note, all attendees received a licensed copy of Vista Ultimate at the Microsoft Event. Was worth going just for that.
Knology network blocked by Microsoft (sometimes)
Isn’t this great. I switch to Knology from Comcast for cable internet at home which otherwise seems just fine plus being $20 cheaper, but now I just discovered that Microsoft blocks Knology’s network from some of their sites.
For example https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/ gives me this message:
“You are not authorized to view this page
The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list.”
Annoying since that’s a site I use as a professional resource.
Update the next day:
I can access the website mentioned above now. Interesting.
Subnet calculator
I had need of a subnet calculator a couple of weeks ago. Beanstown has put up his own handy subnet calculator.
