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mount windows share using cifs

Once again I am tinkering with my Raspberry Pi doing things.  Now I want to mount my windows share remotely to move files around, also extend my storage remotely. As always I share how to do this with some simple steps. To mount a remote Windows share In Debian Squeeze you need to make sure that […]

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Window 8 Activation – Where to place your key

I have my work laptop setup with Windows 8 and now its time to Activate. This is how I tried to do this and how I succeeded in doing so Method 1: Perform the steps mentioned below. a: Right Click at the bottom left of the screen and select System. b: Click View Details in Windows Activation […]

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My Raspberry Pi needs a Swap

About Swap: Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chucks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to the preconfigured space on the hard disk, called swap space, to free up that page of memory. The combined sizes of the physical memory and the swap space […]

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Server 2008 R2 NTP Server

With a little registry play and the restart of a services I can not provide the right time to my SAN. Here’s how to do it: 1 – Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry entry: HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesW32TimeConfig 2 – In the right pane, right-click AnnounceFlags, […]

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Boot Live Ubuntu CD/USB to Memory

I have been wanting to do this for the longest time. And for the first time I got it working with the simplest of ways. This is what I did, and what you can do. Place your CD or USB into computer and start booting it.  Press F6 and then put “toram” (no quotes) into the […]

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Lync not populating contact cards phone numbers from Active Directory

So you have Lync, and every time you want to look up an extension of someone in your office you are left with nothing. Why, Why is this, why doesn’t things just work. As frustrating as this may be it happens for a reason. Lync expects all the phone numbers in Active Directory to be in the […]