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Dangerous 7-Zip flaws put many other software products at risk | PCWorld

The flaws could allow arbitrary code execution when the 7-Zip library processes specially crafted files Credit: IDGNS Two vulnerabilities recently patched in 7-Zip could put at risk of compromise many software products and devices that bundle the open-source file archiving library. The flaws, an out-of-bounds read vulnerability and a heap overflow, were discovered by researchers from […]

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How do I remove the Windows.old

After a recent update of my Windows 10 installation, I was left with the expected Windows.old folder containing 16 GB of old data. It’s time to clean up.  Here are the steps I followed to make this happen. Steps: Click in Windows’ search field, type Cleanup, then click Disk Cleanup.  Click the “Clean up system […]

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VMware vCenter 6 Phantom Snapshots

I’ve been using vCenter 6 for a while now and noticed an odd issue pertaining to snapshots. It seems that all guest show a “revert to current snapshot” state even if a snapshot does not actually exist. However viewing under the Snapshot Manger… shows no existing snapshots associated with the virtual machine guests. I’ve noticed […]

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ntopng on Ubuntu 14.04

I just completed my ntopNG appliance setup. Once more I can look into my network traffic to get an idea of what’s going on. Below you will find the steps to complete the install Here are the steps Log into the ubuntu server host and issue the following commands: sudo into root: sudo -i wget http://www.nmon.net/apt-stable/14.04/all/apt-ntop-stable.deb […]

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Happy #Minecraft Birthday Wishes

How cool is this. Happy #birthday wishes from kids located all over the world who play on my #minecraft server/s I am very pleased that I have been able to make such a positive influence in the lives of many kids located all over the world.  Though a video game that I started hosting as […]

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Using Get-SPWebTemplate to list available site templates in SharePoint 2013

In this tech-short we will go over a simple yet effective way to list out the available site templates in SharePoint 2013. Using the New-SPSite PowerShell cmdlet allows you to specify the name of a template to use. In my case I was unaware of the name of available templates in my SharePoint installation.  Using the Get-SPWebTemplate […]