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Personal Software

A GoodReads review of my Minecraft Servers

There are times I search my domain name to see where my ranking are going. Tonight I came across something unexpected. It was a review on the website goodreads where a player who visits my Minecraft Servers gave it a very friendly review and write up.  How awesome is that! I am so happy that […]

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Software Technical

Tech Short: Ubuntu Server System Information on login

If you have run Ubuntu Server you may have noticed that each time you log into your system via SSH system information  status are displayed. I have wondered this for a while now and tonight I found out. The command to reproduce this information is landscape-sysinfo This command is run from /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo and exists when […]

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Software Technical

Monitoring Public Facing Servers, and Services for Free

Its not often I can say a free hosted product can give you alerts and all the info you wanted,  but this one does. I was using the service Monitor.us which is excellent to monitor public site and endpoints.  However for free version had a limitation of only 2 systems so I had to resort to […]

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Software Technical

Generate a CSR using OpenSSL

Sometimes I generate a CSR to acquire an SSL cert from a public CA. Normally where I work I do this from a windows server.  For my personal knowledge I decided to  refresh myself on how to do this with OpenSSL. What’s OpenSSL? OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. To generate […]

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News Software Technical

SHA-1 based SSL Certificates are being Phased Out

Hello friends, The following post is to advice some of you that run public facing websites which use SSL.  Google Chrome  will start giving users Warning messages when accessing sites that use SHA-1 based SSL Certificates. By the way – This is scheduled to start happening in under a month form now. And if you are […]

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How-To Software Technical

Tech Short: What is my Lync 2010 Server Version?

So you are looking to upgrade; or at best update to a CU and well the first question in your mind is; what version of Lync am I running. This info can be obtained by the Lync Server Management Shell   Run the following command: Get-CsServerVersion and you now have your server version As always, […]