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How-To Personal

Attach and Reattach to screen session

While using ssh to connect to my home systems to mange my servers (such as Minecraft) I use screen to keep my session(s) open so that if I get disconnected or simply forget and close my putty session I can later resume.  I sometimes find myself in the situation where I go home and later want […]

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Hardware How-To

Upgrading HP ProCurve firmware via USB flash drive

Today I got a replacement HP ProCurve 2910al-48G-PoE+ J9148A to replace one that had faulted in the data-center so I am taking a moment to take a little phrase from Horace “Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero” because I may not have the chance to do this another day. The ProCurve switch has a USB port that […]

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How-To Software

Trend Micro Officescan 10 WSSPatterns consuming my disk

Working on the Officescan Server in preparation for an upgrade, when I noticed a large amount of disk space used on the server.  Not knowing where the space was being used I pulled out my handy portable version of HDGraph and did the scan.  It showed that the space used was from the following directory:  C:Program FilesTrend […]

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How-To Software Technical

CrashPlan on headless debian server

I had been interested in using a backup solution for my photos when I came across CrashPlan. The price for one was a quick sale and the idea of being able to backup “unlimited” data from a single computer just seemed to fit what I had been looking for. I recently changed my home file […]

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How-To Technical

Verizon FiOS Router DLNA Issues

Recently I noticed an issue with my FiOS router no longer allowing my DLNA Clients to connect to my PS3 and MiniDLNA Server when connecting over wireless. My wired clients were unaffected by this issue. Firmware Version: 20.19.8 Model Name: MI424WR-GEN2 Hardware Version: E After some tinkering I discovered that IGMP Proxy settings was causing my problem. […]

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How-To Technical

Enable SNMP on ESXi 5.

So you want to enable SNMP on ESXi 5 and finding a lot on Google and Bing regarding using the vicfg- command run in the CLI, only to find out that the command doesn’t exist in your install of ESXi5? Well you have come to the right place. I enabled SNMP and this is how: […]