A little something about everything

internet marketing and website development made simple..

3DM2 / 3ware Error: ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH or Error Code: DLG_FLAGS_INVALID_CA

This is caused because the 3dM2 app is using a very outdated TLS 1.0 protocol.

To solve this you need to enable TLS 1.0 while accessing the local 3DM2 web GUI. You should change this back as it presents a large security risk as TLS 1.0 is easily exploited.

To enable TLS 1.0 while using 3DM2 go to "Internet Options" (Internet Properties on newer Windows OS), under advanced check the box for "Use TLS 1.0" then click apply. It's advisable to keep this window open so you remember to disable TLS 1.0 after you are done.

With Use TLS 1.0 checked you should now be able to access the 3DM2 web GUI for your 3ware raid cards using Internet Explorer mode in edge.

Then click more information and go on to the webpage

That's it, you're done.

 

Don't forget to turn off TLS 1.0 when you're done.

Quick Tip: if you've just installed 3DM2 and don't know your password it's 3ware, be sure to change it.

How to increase the maximum number of pinned items on the taskbar in windows?

You can do this with a registry change, 

Whenever making registry changes be sure to do a full backup first, I am not responsible for your mistakes.

Open your registry editor (regedit)

goto 

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

right click on advanced and add new DWORD value "JumpListItems_Maximum" and assign the desired value in decimal format.

In most cases you do not need to restart anything, if you would like you can restart explorer using the task manager.
open task manager: Ctrl+Alt+DEL select task manager and under the processes tab right click on "Windows Explorer" and choose restart.

That's it, your done.

How to force Linkedin to update its OG data for a website?

When marketing and sending messages in linkedin you may commonly use your website address, in this case Linkedin actually caches your social media image, description. etc. This is your OG data.

You can go to https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/ and enter your website address to force linkedin to update this data.

You can add the following to your website to display a custom title, url, image, and description. 

<meta property="og:title" content="yourcustomtitle" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://yourcustomurlforthispage" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://yourdomain/path/image.webp" />
<meta property="og:description" content="customdescription" />

 

Thats it, your done.

Error 0x80004005 | an unexpected error is keeping you from copying the folder / file when using remote desktop

This error generally happens when rdpclip has become unstable. To solve this issue you can simply restart the rdpclip.exe application.

To do this open task manager, click on "Details" then find rdpclip.exe

Now end task on rdpclip.exe

Next you can restart the rdpclip.exe by running a new task

Enter rdpclip and click "OK"

That's it, your done and the problem should be solved.

 

How to use PuTTY to test SMTP on an email server.

If you have not already, you can download PuTTY from putty.org

Once you open PuTTY you can input the mail server name or IP address you are attempting to connect to into the Host Name field. Then update the port to 25 and the connection type to "Telnet".

When you click connect you should see something like this:

Other responses:

  • If you do not receive a response, the connection was blocked by the mail server.
  • If you receive "Cannot connect to host on port 25" the mail server is likely offline or is having network routing issues.

You can also run a few commands to test