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Openfiler – case of the missing storage

Today I was doing some cleanup on one of my Openfiler SAN Servers, in an attempt to recover unused disk space when I encounter an odd issue of the storage not being reclaimed. After waiting sometime I decided to investigate this problem. Opening putty, I SSH’ed into the server and was able to see that […]

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Software Technical

Outlook rules not working after Exchange 2010 migration

Last night I moved my email account from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010.  All went well with the move and email flowing as expected.   Outside of the issue of me not having email sent to my phone or the ability to check webmail all else was fine. I decided that I had reached the end […]

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YouTube Video Issues in Google Chrome

Recently I have noticed the following issue when I was viewing videos on YouTube with Google Chrome.  All YouTube video’s seem to have this green car added to the top of the video and also look blurry. I also noticed that the color seems to be distorted. The odd thing is that other sites don’t […]

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News Technical

BackTrack Linux

BackTrack Linux is the highest rated and acclaimed Linux security distribution to date. BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. BackTrack is intended for all audiences from the most savvy security professionals to early newcomers to the information […]

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My thoughts on how to keep your data safe

I think that data security should be one of the top concerns for computer users. If your computer is stolen, often the impact of confidential or proprietary data being lost or compromised can be much higher than the cost of replacing computer itself. There are many easy ways of keeping your data out of the […]

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How to get your Dell Service Tag

There are those times you need the service tag from a system such as a noteboot, server, or pc and just can’t get to it.  Or… taking the “I’m not getting up for this method”. Using the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) you can pull this information right from the command prompt. Simply type the following: […]