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Windows 8 RTM *N – Install Photos

I got my hands on it and the install was smooth as glass. Here are some photos of my install… Enjoy! The wait is over. Welcome to the next level of computing; Now with Windows 8

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Windows 8 reached RTM status

Today, I learned that select ‘friendly’ people of the Microsoft world have got their hands on the RTM build of Windows 8. I hope to get my hands on this sometime today and have it installed by end of day to share with you all my thoughts of this long awaited OS from Microsoft; I may even demo it […]

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My first slice of Raspberry Pi

Today, I got my hands on Raspberry Pi. I was able to get a Debian image working on a 1GB SD card, but that wasn’t all I did. After my initial boot I installed open-ssh, mysql client and server, lighttpd, and php.  I even took this to the next level and installed WordPress. it’s not something I’d use to […]

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IP address blocking by country

I bumped into a site that seems to keep track of address info on a country by country basis. Find them here: http://ipinfodb.com/ip_country_block.php#blocklist they claim to update the database monthly. This may be useful one day.

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How-To

How to remove Google+ hangout apps

Log into your Google account and find your way to your Google+ Next click on settings (gear icon), which take you into the accounts area Click on security, then click edit on Authorizing applications and sites Locate the Google+ hangout app you would like to remove (revoke access) Click Revoke Access The application should now […]

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Identify Microsoft SQL Server version & edition

I wanted to determine which version of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 was running on one of my servers. So I opened up SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), and ran the following command as a new query window: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY (‘productversion’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘productlevel’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘edition’) The following results are returned: -The product version (for example, 10.0.1600.22) -The […]