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Uninstall of SQL fails with error about RsFx Driver

I was working on uninstalling installations of SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 R2 to later do a clean install of SQL 2012. All seems to be going relatively smooth until I encountered the following message: Warning 26003. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup Support Files cannot be uninstalled because the following products are installed: Microsoft […]

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My Quick TOR Socks / Web Proxy

I originally preformed similar steps to setup a raspberry pi for this reason, later using a very tiny Ubuntu server install. Using a clean Ubuntu / or / Debian installation (recommended, not necessary) add the following repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main to figure out the name of your distribution. A quick command to run […]

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Listening to radioPup streams on my PC

radioPup is a personalized radio app designed for mobile devices featuring local radio stations streaming the best music and news available. Covering many genres of the best music the stations have to offer. Best of all its live radio. But what if you didn’t want to just use your mobile device and prefer using your […]

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Do not upgrade virtual hardware of ESXi 5.5 guest

I updated my ESXi 5.1 server to the latest ESXi 5.5 release. The process with smooth as it has always been in the past. After updating the tools for my guests I thought it was only practical to update the hardware level of my machines… I thought wrong. The moment I upgraded the ability to […]

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I just became a Facebook for Android Beta Tester

Tonight I just signed up to be a Facebook Android Beta Tester. Signup was quick and simple and I am very interested to see what’s new and help report issues found during my time testing. And as always; I’ll share what I find with you all. To sign up simply follow this link: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/android_beta/

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Error FileAccessDenied (JET_errFileAccessDenied …)

I ran into the following message when running an operation on one of my Exchange databases: Operation terminated with error -1032 (JET_errFileAccessDenied, Cannot access file, the file is locked or in use) after 10.79 seconds. The operation’s I was attempting was an integrity check on a database (ESEUTIL /G database_filename.edb). When this failed with the error […]