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Raspbian Wheezy armhf Rasp~ Pi minimal image

Hi friends, Hi to myself in the future. Here is a updated Raspberry Pi minimal image. This one is compiled with hard float support; hardware instead of software emulation. Include: A minimal Raspbian Wheezy installation (similar to a netinstall) Hard Float binaries: floating point operations are done in hardware instead of A disabled incremental updates, means […]

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Server 2008 R2 NTP Server

With a little registry play and the restart of a services I can not provide the right time to my SAN. Here’s how to do it: 1 – Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry entry: HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesW32TimeConfig 2 – In the right pane, right-click AnnounceFlags, […]

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Boot Live Ubuntu CD/USB to Memory

I have been wanting to do this for the longest time. And for the first time I got it working with the simplest of ways. This is what I did, and what you can do. Place your CD or USB into computer and start booting it.  Press F6 and then put “toram” (no quotes) into the […]

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Identify Microsoft SQL Server version & edition

I wanted to determine which version of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 was running on one of my servers. So I opened up SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), and ran the following command as a new query window: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY (‘productversion’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘productlevel’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘edition’) The following results are returned: -The product version (for example, 10.0.1600.22) -The […]

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PS3 Media Server – Simplified

Hello Friends This time around I will provide some details on setting up the PS3 Media Server software on your Linux/Ubuntu install. This time the steps have been simplified. So please follow my steps and you should be up and running in no time at all. Step 1. – Install Ubuntu Server or Desktop (I […]

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My 7zip backup excluding specific file types

I have been using 7zip to backup files on my system and recently wanted to exclude unwanted file types from my backups. File types such as Thumbs.db and .tmp files to be precise.  With the command line you’d use the “-x!” parameter. For example: C:Program Files7-Zip7z.exe a -t7z F:Backup.7z F:MyFiles*.* -r -x!*.db -x!*.tmp Here is […]