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Mac OS X: Changing or resetting an account password

Yes!  I am playing with a MAC.  I didn’t know how to change my password and now I do. Resetting a user’s password Log in with an administrator account.  From the Apple menu choose System Preferences. From the View menu choose Accounts. Click the lock button if it appears locked; enter the administrator password. Select the username whose password you want […]

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VLC

There is no real need to post this because of how awesome it is. By now most of you know this, but for those of you who do not… It plays  almost anything!   I use it both in Windows and Ubuntu. Simple to install, simple to use. In Ubuntu sudo apt-get install vlc   In […]

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Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.

Aparently, this normally happens when you disable IPv6 in Local Area Connection. This is due to the behavior of IPv6 in Windows Server 2008, when you disable IPv6 in Local Area Connection on Windows 2008 server. The following error was generated when: “$error.Clear(); if ($RoleStartTransportService) { start-SetupService -ServiceName MSExchangeTransport }”, generated the following error: “Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ […]

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SharePoint Server 2010 Windows PowerShell cmdlets

For those looking for essential resources when upgrading from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010, I have found some of these very useful Index of SharePoint Server 2010 Windows PowerShell cmdlets http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678226(office.14).aspx

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Avoid the Warning from Excel Services About Refreshing External Data

If you leave this value set to the default (i.e. Yes), then you’ll be greeted with the following message for each Excel Web Part on a TFS dashboard page: This workbook contains one or more queries that refresh external data. A malicious user can design a query to access confidential information and distribute it to […]

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fdupes

To remove all but the first of a number of duplicate files in a subfolder on Linux, use: yes 1|fdupes -rd <folder>   Fdupes Examples 1) fdupes -r ./stuff > dupes.txt Then, deleting the duplicates was as easy as checking dupes.txt and deleting the offending directories. fdupes also can prompt you to delete the duplicates […]