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EC2 Instances, the pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So I decided to take the plunge into moving my mailserver from Linode to EC2 considering it made more sense after doing some math.  The reality is Linode is an excellent VPS host and I still have many machines with them (and highly recommend them), but the reality is at some point, it doesn’t become…

Word or Office Application could not create the work file check the temp environment variable [Solved]

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Percy Kwong

If you all of a sudden get this error, don’t fret.  Just do the following: open Regedit (as administrator) from the Start / run prompt or just open a dos window and type regedit.exe Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell Folders You should see a key called: Cache registry key Double-click on it and change it’s value…

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