This is a quick how-to on installing Windows 7, Server 2008/R2, Windows 8 and Server 2010 using a USB flash drive. The reason I do this is because of the speed and not having to use, or be bothered with burning a DVD. I will give you the steps I have taken along with some of […]
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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 […]
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Ubuntu: My day-to-day Linux commands
And now a bit of the day-to-day Linux commands I use in Ubuntu ls -l This the most common command that all *nix users use to show the file(s) in list format. rm -rf <filename(s)> To delete a file, use this command. Be careful, no retrieval will help you to get your file. /etc/init.d/networking restart I […]
Microsoft has released a hotfix for Skype which addresses two known issues in the Windows version of the software. The hotfix addresses a crash during a Skype IM session, as well as file sending bugs. The hotfix addresses these two issues: Instant Messaging – Skype client crashes during a Skype IM session, which may in […]
I’ll make this one short: A few days ago i got Lighttpd up and running and even moved my WordPress blog onto it. This was a nice clean install that is working properly, starting properly. There seems to be something missing! Oh! yeah! Where is my access.log. I attempt to tail -f /var/log/lighttpd/access.log and there was nothing there. This took me […]
This has been one of the features that never seem to have made it to VMware products such as Player and Workstation; The ability to boot from USB. Well with some 3rd party magic this is possible Using Plop Boot Manager all you need to do is boot from the provided floppy image or CD […]