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Installing Open-VM Tools on Ubuntu Server

I have been using Ubuntu Server to host many of my projects here at home; everything from my media servers, testing systems and web/blog site. I have install the VMware tools in the past and ran into issues or just found them to break. At best I just need the minimal the tools offer, and this […]

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Rid the world of older versions of IE

In an shared attempt to get users who are currently using Internet Explorer 8 or below sites all across the internet are planning a cause an internet blackout on October 26 2012. This movement will be for one day only, and will block users from accessing sites if they are on IE8 or below. I […]

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Window 8 Activation – Where to place your key

I have my work laptop setup with Windows 8 and now its time to Activate. This is how I tried to do this and how I succeeded in doing so Method 1: Perform the steps mentioned below. a: Right Click at the bottom left of the screen and select System. b: Click View Details in Windows Activation […]

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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 […]