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How to create a symbolic link in Windows 8

Posted 11 December 2012 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

To create a symbolic link in Windows 8, open a command prompt window as Administrator and use the following syntax: mklink LinkFile TargetFile For example: mklink C:\Users\Bob\Dropbox D:\Dropbox

Intel AMT KVM Viewer for Remote PC KVM/Out Of Band Host Management

Posted 02 November 2012 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

Intel vPro enabled Laptops, Desktops and Servers have capability for remote management via the Intel AMT Management Engine (ME). The chip allows non-enterprise users to get remote KVM access to desktops similar to what is available in Enterprise servers such as HP’s iLO,  Dell’s iDRAC6, and Cisco’s CIMC. Real VNC’s “VNC Viewer Plus” allows for […]

How to reset the Administrator password on Windows 2008 R2 Server

Posted 28 July 2012 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

Pre-requisite (You must have a copy of the Windows 2008 R2 Server DVD to boot from). Take the following steps: Boot the from your original copy, or burned copy of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Disk Insert the original Windows Server 2008 installation DVD Reset the computer, boot from DVD Choose option “Repair your computer” […]

Resolve Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 Integrity Issues

Posted 28 July 2012 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | 1 Comment

How to use the System File Checker in Windows 7 System File Checker (SFC) is a utility will check the integrity of your Windows 7 Operating system. It will check for the damaged, corrupted or changed version of files and replace it with the original version of that file. To use the System File Checker […]

Recovering used space and shrinking volumes in Windows 7

Posted 30 December 2011 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

The best way to delete hiberfil.sys or disable hibernate: Go to Start menu, type “cmd” open up command prompt Type “powercfg.exe -h off” [make sure you are an Administrator] ENTER Type “exit” ENTER

Fedora 16 stuck booting into recovery mode

Posted 20 December 2011 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

Fedora 16 keeps booting into recovery mode Try resolving by re-generating grub.cfg via ” ‘grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg’”

Install GoDaddy Cisco IOS SSL Certificate

Posted 10 February 2011 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Create a 2048 bit RSA key. GoDaddy now only supports 2048 or greater key length for security reasons. On their site they claim that computer performance will be capable of breaking a 1024 bit key by 2012. Will that be the end of the world? 🙂 Router(config)#crypto key generate rsa general-keys Label GDKey modulus 2048 […]

How to Trust Self Signed Certificates in Windows 7

Posted 28 December 2010 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Go to the website in question, www.mywebsite.com, for instance, Click through until you get to the Certificate error in the browser status line. View the cert, then from the Details tab, select Copy to File. Save to the Desktop as mywebsite.cer, for example. Start, Run, MMC. File, Add/Remove Snap-In. Select Certificates, Click Add, My User […]

VMWare Fusion 3.1 Beta Download Available

Posted 18 March 2010 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available The VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta is now available at http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/fusion. This beta software includes 10+ new and improved features including: More Powerful Graphics Performance for Games & 3D Apps: OpenGL 2.1 support for Windows Vista and Windows 7, DirectX 9.0 SM3 performance improvements, Windows Aero performance improvements, better OpenGL […]

Setup PGP on Snow Leopard

Posted 05 January 2010 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

How To: Begin by downloading and verifying the GnuPG archives from. Here’s what to type: curl -O ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.10.tar.gzcurl -O ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.10.tar.gz.sig If this server does not work please take a look at the morrors page of GnuPG at http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/mirrors.html, choose a mirror and replace the URL in an appropriate way. For instance choose curl -O ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/crypt/mirror/ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/ […]