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“Why is there no /var/log/messages any more?”

Woah!  I just noticed this was missing.  I have used this for many years as my go to location for messages in my Ubuntu Linux environments. With the newest update of Ubuntu this seems to be gone.  {Shocker}   But, there is no need for worrying… The logs I was looking for are in /var/log/syslog. […]

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DIY: Black Holes (in Exchange Server)

Create a distribution group Be sure that there are no members in this distribution list/group. Add the SMTP addresses of the ex-employees or address to the distribution list/group, if account exists.  Add them as secondary SMTP addresses to the distribution list/group address. *note* enter the properties and change the delivery reports; and set it not […]

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ESXi 4 on USB Thumb Drive

I have no doubts there are many people writing about this; so add me to the list.  I wanted to setup my small ESXi 4 Server to boot from USB media so that I no longer needed to have a local drive in the machine I use as a server. Using VMware Player and a […]

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How-To Software Technical

Tunneling Firefox traffic over SSH

Paranoia, Security or Privacy Issues; All are reasons why I tunnel my web traffic though a SSH Tunnel via a remote machine.  In most cases I do this because I do not trust the network I’m on and don’t want to send unencrypted traffic through it.  In some cases firewalls or local network DNS prevent […]

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Help: Stuck at Apple Logo then Black/Blank Screen

So after some jailbreak fun and doings something wrong, I found myself stuck at a black screen just after the iPhone start-up logo.  I attempted to force the iPhone to restart many times with the same results until following the next few steps to restore my iPhone to factory defaults. I needed to turn off […]

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How-to screenshot with an iPhone

I have always noticed that people had these type of things on the iPhone but never put much thought into it until I recently moved into a iPhone myself. I noticed in the application store that people were selling screen shot tools and even had free ones for use. When I stumbled upon how to […]