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Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password

Yes!  I am playing with a MAC.  I didn’t know how to change my password and now I do. Resetting a user’s password Log in with an administrator account.  From the Apple menu choose System Preferences. From the View menu choose Accounts. Click the lock button if it appears locked; enter the administrator password. Select the username whose password you want […]

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Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.

Aparently, this normally happens when you disable IPv6 in Local Area Connection. This is due to the behavior of IPv6 in Windows Server 2008, when you disable IPv6 in Local Area Connection on Windows 2008 server. The following error was generated when: “$error.Clear(); if ($RoleStartTransportService) { start-SetupService -ServiceName MSExchangeTransport }”, generated the following error: “Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ […]

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Avoid the Warning from Excel Services About Refreshing External Data

If you leave this value set to the default (i.e. Yes), then you’ll be greeted with the following message for each Excel Web Part on a TFS dashboard page: This workbook contains one or more queries that refresh external data. A malicious user can design a query to access confidential information and distribute it to […]

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[SOLVED] Segmentation faulty tree…

I had this issue where I could not install anything new in my Ubuntu server. After some searching I come to lean that the packages cache seemed to be corrupted # symptom is something such as this root@media:~# apt-get update root@media:~# apt-get install htop Reading package lists… Done Segmentation faulty tree… 50% # and this […]

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Windows Sysinternals – Auto system reboot

The application is called PsShutdown, and is downloadable for free: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ PsShutdown is quite similar to “regular” shutdown – the former accepts the same parameters as the latter, but has various additional features, such as logging off users, locking the work station, and foremost: shutdown of the system when nobody’s logged in, or when the console is locked. Usage […]

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Install VMWare Tools Ubuntu Server

This is a little short on how to install the ESX VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Server If you are not running as the ‘root’ user you will need to change into super user Lets start —   # if not running as ‘root’ change into super user sudo su # update your sources apt-get update […]