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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, […]

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Upgrade Install of ESXi 5.0 Update 1

I wrote some steps on this in a previous post.  I am back again to take you for my ride in upgrading to update 1 for ESXi 5. Direct download update link: https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/OFFLINE/release-328-20120312-212851/update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zip Once you have the upgrade zip, you will wan to SCP this over to the ESXi 5 server. I use my datastore […]

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How to: hide media on Android

To hide media in a specific folder from the player apps do this: Windows: Open notepad and save an empty file as filename “.nomedia”. Linux: In a terminal window create a file called “.nomedia” by typing “touch .nomedia”. Connect your Android phone by USB and copy the file into all folders you wish to hide […]

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PS3 Media Server (Again)

It’s been about 2 years now and well it was time for me to rebuild my PS3 Media Server The last time I made a write up about this; I gave a few steps and left some out. Here is my rebuild and steps I took to get it working. I started off by installing […]

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Sysprep Windows Server 2008 R2

Today I was working on testing some systems when some of the errors I had been getting eluded to the machines security information not being unique from other systems. It’s time for sysprep, but first we need to find it. Is it on the DVD media…? No! Perhaps we have to cross a broken Bridge, […]

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dump packets with tcpdump

How many times did you forget the parameters.  I have, countless time. Lets see if my sharing here I will remember some of my favorite commands # tcpdump -nnXSs 0 ‘port 5060’ Command switches (what they are for) “-nn” plays nice by not looking up hostnames in DNS or service names. “-X” makes it print each packet in hex […]