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Minecraft 1.7.1 Pre-release @ jermsmit.com – Snapshot Server

Okay! It’s here Friends, the update that changed the Minecraft Word. We are now running the Minecraft Pre-release 1.7.1 on the minecraft.jermsmit.com:25566 server. So lets sum up quickly what we have under the hood of this new release; best of all its all yours officially Friday, October 25th 2013. See you on the snapshot server […]

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PS3 Media Server – Simplified

Hello Friends This time around I will provide some details on setting up the PS3 Media Server software on your Linux/Ubuntu install. This time the steps have been simplified. So please follow my steps and you should be up and running in no time at all. Step 1. – Install Ubuntu Server or Desktop (I […]

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Windows Server 8 named Windows Server 2012

A few days ago Microsoft has announced that the Windows Server 8 will be named Windows Server 2012. This was made known at MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) on April 17, 2012.  I just found out about it myself.  Not a big shocker for me.  I just wanted to share the news and keep the cycle of informaiton […]

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Dynamic IP Restrictions in IIS7

The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module […]

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How to Setup a Windows 2008 R2 SNTP/NTP Server

  Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry entry:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesW32TimeConfig In the right pane, right-click AnnounceFlags, and then click Modify. In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, under Value data, type 5, and then click OK. Enable NTPServer. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSet ServicesW32TimeTimeProvidersNtpServer In the right pane, right-click Enabled, and then […]

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Tunneling Firefox traffic over SSH

Paranoia, Security or Privacy Issues; All are reasons why I tunnel my web traffic though a SSH Tunnel via a remote machine.  In most cases I do this because I do not trust the network I’m on and don’t want to send unencrypted traffic through it.  In some cases firewalls or local network DNS prevent […]