This is a quick how-to on installing Windows 7, Server 2008/R2, Windows 8 and Server 2010 using a USB flash drive. The reason I do this is because of the speed and not having to use, or be bothered with burning a DVD. I will give you the steps I have taken along with some of […]
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I have been using 7zip to backup files on my system and recently wanted to exclude unwanted file types from my backups. File types such as Thumbs.db and .tmp files to be precise. With the command line you’d use the “-x!” parameter. For example: C:Program Files7-Zip7z.exe a -t7z F:Backup.7z F:MyFiles*.* -r -x!*.db -x!*.tmp Here is […]
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Linux – Find Out CPU Information
“Dr. Chandra, will I dream?” – HAL-9000 You can use /proc/cpuinfo file or use the lscpu command to get info about CPU architecture. It will display information like: Number of CPUs, Threads, Cores, Sockets, etc… Open a terminal and type the following command: less /proc/cpuinfo You cal also just type: lscpu for the same results
I’ll make this one short: A few days ago i got Lighttpd up and running and even moved my WordPress blog onto it. This was a nice clean install that is working properly, starting properly. There seems to be something missing! Oh! yeah! Where is my access.log. I attempt to tail -f /var/log/lighttpd/access.log and there was nothing there. This took me […]
Do you have a need to release your FiOS IP Address for a new one? There are those times where you just wanted to move to another address. I find myself doing this from time to time. Below you will find some steps to do this and avoid calling the FiOS Support Center to do […]
Regarding the silly time it takes for Lync to update the database. Please follow these steps: Exit out of Lync, making sure it’s gone by right clicking it in the task tray and choosing exit First, execute the following command from the Windows Command Prompt run as an administrator (or manually add the GalDownloadInitialDelay registry […]