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Showing my 6yr old how to install ADFS v3.0

I know sounds odd to be showing a 6yr old how to setup and configure ADFS, but this is what I did tonight as I had no one else to work with on this exercise. So lets go over what was done. Three (3) Windows Server 2012 R2 installs Server 1 was promoted to a […]

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How do I remove the Windows.old

After a recent update of my Windows 10 installation, I was left with the expected Windows.old folder containing 16 GB of old data. It’s time to clean up.  Here are the steps I followed to make this happen. Steps: Click in Windows’ search field, type Cleanup, then click Disk Cleanup.  Click the “Clean up system […]

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The Appearance of Physical Strength May Be the Look of Leadership

In a further sign that humans aren’t so different from our simian forebears, it seems that what really makes a man look like a leader is…muscles. That is the implication of a recent paper that outlines several experiments exploring the relationship between perceptions of physical strength and leadership abilities. The research suggests that both men […]

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VMware vCenter 6 Phantom Snapshots

I’ve been using vCenter 6 for a while now and noticed an odd issue pertaining to snapshots. It seems that all guest show a “revert to current snapshot” state even if a snapshot does not actually exist. However viewing under the Snapshot Manger… shows no existing snapshots associated with the virtual machine guests. I’ve noticed […]

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natural emergence of augmented reality

One of the new emerging information technologies that we are witnessing today is this idea of augmented reality. This notion of taking the world of everyday perception and tweaking it, augmenting it, and impregnating perception with mindedness and with aesthetics. So what does that mean? It essentially means that the information technologies and instruments we’re using today to manipulate and transform […]

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ntopng on Ubuntu 14.04

I just completed my ntopNG appliance setup. Once more I can look into my network traffic to get an idea of what’s going on. Below you will find the steps to complete the install Here are the steps Log into the ubuntu server host and issue the following commands: sudo into root: sudo -i wget http://www.nmon.net/apt-stable/14.04/all/apt-ntop-stable.deb […]