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Raspberry Pi – NOOBS

The fantastic groups over at raspberrypi.org have introduced a new project shaped around the idea of simplifying the beginner experience when it comes to using the Raspberry Pi. NOOBS makes setting things up much easier, and while grandma and grandpa may still be left on the outskirts of things you won’t need to do much […]

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Internet Explorer 10, Crashing Exchange 2013 Exchange Admin Console

If you are running Exchange 2012 on Windows Server 2012 you will soon noticed that Internet Explorer 10 randomly crashes during operations in the new Exchange Admin Console (EAC). I have found this to be very annoying. However there are options which you could take. 1. You can use Internet Explorer 10 from Windows 8 […]

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Changing hostname or domain name in Vyatta

Using the Vyatta command line interface (CLI) you can change the hostname and even the domain name of your Vyatta installation. To set the hostname do the following: configure set system host-name Vyatta commit To set the domain name do the following: configure set system domain-name jermsmit.com commit After each above you will want to […]

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Using SSH as VPN Solution in Linux

Looking for a quick simple way to have VPN access to your network or simply to secure your connection when you are on a remote network you don’t complete truest such as a public hot-spot. And while there are many solutions I have one which is simple to use. It’s called ‘sshuttle’ and all you […]

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sudo and “unable to resolve host hostname” error message

Working on a clean install of Ubuntu Desktop 13.04. I changed the hostname of the system /etc/hostname and later noticed I got the following error message “unable to resolve host hostname” when ever I did an sudo command (example: sudo -i). To resolved this I changed the following: I used nano to edit /etc/hosts and […]

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Pre-Requisites Time – Coming Soon

I open PowerShell as Administrator and type the following: Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-Foundation followed by pressing enter… what next you ask?  Well stop by later and […]