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My thoughts on how to keep your data safe

I think that data security should be one of the top concerns for computer users. If your computer is stolen, often the impact of confidential or proprietary data being lost or compromised can be much higher than the cost of replacing computer itself. There are many easy ways of keeping your data out of the […]

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How to get your Dell Service Tag

There are those times you need the service tag from a system such as a noteboot, server, or pc and just can’t get to it.  Or… taking the “I’m not getting up for this method”. Using the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) you can pull this information right from the command prompt. Simply type the following: […]

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Test your anti-virus product

I was thinking tonight about anti-virus programs used today.  And with the many malware attacks that aim to cripple your anti-virus solution, how can one test if its working or not. To get past that fale sense of security; because what we don’t know will hurt us.  That said I suggest using a test virus (known virus saved on […]

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Goodbye Configuration Issues Warning

So you are running VMware ESXi 5 and enabled remote and local shell access. What you have found by doing this is a nice warning screen like the screenshot below waiting for you each and every time you are logged in. Getting rid of this is simple. Go to your host, click the configuration tab, […]

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Command-line + ESXi Fun

I had some time to tinker after an upgrade of my system Wanted to learn something new, and play I found some useful commands The first useful command i could run is to list all registered guest on my host. vim-cmd /vmsvc/getallvms Get power state of a VM vim-cmd /vmsvc/power.getstate <Vimid> From the image above you […]

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2 Skype’s 1 Computer

For those of you who understand the topic reference. Shame on you. Doing some digging on how this would work i came across the following help document from our friends over at Skype (now, Microsoft) on how to run multiple Skype clients on a single desktop session. The procedure was shockingly simple to do. From the Windows taskbar, […]