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Make Your Own iPhone Ringtones

On December 5, 2017 By admin

So, all a ringtone for an iPhone is is an AAC file (.M4A extension). Keep this in mind, your ringtone cannot exceed 30 seconds (well, there is a way to do it, but it won’t play more than 30 seconds since your caller goes to voicemail after 30.) Open iTunes,

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What’s Better for Hyper-V? A fast i5 or a slow Xeon?

On December 5, 2017 By admin

I did … so I built one of each; honestly, the Xeon is a bit faster for HyperV but slower for local services. The server(s) in question needed to act as HyperV hosts, a DVR, and a Plex server … the i5 worked good but I noticed the VM’s were

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New Crypto Variant (original article from 2015)

On December 5, 2017 By admin

So, in case you haven’t been following, there have been several variants of the crypto viruses … I have been at the forefront for killing them at my office when our clients get them … so in a nutshell here’s what to watch for with the older variants … What

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More Fun w/Xymon

On December 5, 2017 By admin

So, I decided to flush and redo my server (I do this from time to time, it’s fun … no, really, LOL!) Anyways, so I flushed it. Why is not important but let’s just say that I moved a drive that was NOT part of a RAID to a RAID

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OSX 10.6 as a Fusion Client (Not the Server, the Client Version)

On December 5, 2017 By admin

First and foremost, there is some confusion as to whether this is allowed (OSX client software as a VM for 10.5/10.6) … so, as such, it’s on you to know if this is OK … I didn’t bother to check into in detail … I just needed to run World

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How to Get MSE on Windows Servers

On December 5, 2017 By admin

Ok, so I have tested this on Windows Server 2012 R2 and it works … Ever find yourself in a position where you want to put AV on a server but really don’t want to pay for licensing? I recently found myself in that boat of my current solution expired

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Ever Wanted to Reset a Password in vBulletin Through PHPMyAdmin?

On December 5, 2017 By admin

First, login to PHPMyAdmin and goto the DB in question, users table … find your user name and make note of the userid # .. Now, run this query UPDATE <table_prefix if any>user SET password = MD5(CONCAT(MD5(‘new-password’), salt)) WHERE userid = <user id #> Boom! Good to go

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Follow up to the Xymon Mess

On December 5, 2017 By admin

So, I was configuring alerts … first you need to understand how my email works … Mail is delivered to my Comcast POP account, I have a Barracuda SPAM-100 which goes and collects POP mail every 2 minutes and delivers it to my Exchange 2013 server, Exchange then sends it

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Server 2012R2, Hyper-V, Ubuntu 14.04, and the New Xymon … Doesn’t Work Out of the Box

On December 5, 2017 By admin

So, I decided to recreate my Xymon monitoring server after upgrading from a Dell Poweredge 1900 to a Dell Poweredge T300. I created a fresh VM with a whole 512MB RAM (yeah for Ubuntu having no overhead!). A quick bit to set the IP … – sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces; changed

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Server 2008R2 Domain w/Exhcange 2010 Migration to Server 2012R2 w/Exchange 2013

On December 5, 2017 By admin

Well, where I currently work I was told when I was hired I needed to obtain some certifications. I’ve been slacking. Partially due to alot going on in my life and partially from a lack of hardware. All that changed a few weeks ago when my old boss (Yes Steve,

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