Here's a great tip over on TipBITS that I didn't know, but could come in handy some day. I usually have no need at all for seeing invisible files in the Finder. If I'm doing anything to do with invisible...
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I recently needed to use ssh to connect to an old Cisco ASA5505 firewall. As it turns out, the Java interface doesn't work in any current version of Java and it's got such an old version of ssh that it...
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Apple have released the iOS 11.4 update for iPhones and iPads. The main improvement is the addition of AirPlay 2 which allows HomePod speakers to play multi-room audio (like Sonos) and to have two of them linked as a stereo...
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If you've got a Windows Server without the Desktop Experience (which, in Windows Server 1709 is the default, and only option) then you're going to have to get used to managing things from the command line. When you initially log...
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I had an issue where I couldn't start a web server on a Windows Server as something was already listening on TCP Port 443. netstat -a -b just showed me that something was listening on 0.0.0.0:443 but also said that...
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It's long been a source of frustration for me that CAD software usually doesn't use the OS vendor's provided installers and instead they roll their own. Vectorworks and Archicad, I'm looking at you. When an application uses an app based...
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I'm too tired to write up more background information on this, suffice to say I spent quite literally hours searching for this and I want to be able to easily find it again if the need arises. As often happens...
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I had an issue today with trying to create an image of a brand-new Windows 10 laptop (HP EliteBook x360 in case you were wondering). When running Clonezilla, the main Windows partition, formatted as plain ol' NTFS, was identified by...
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I've got a client with Kerio Connect as their mail/contacts/calendars server. They were seeing an issue on some workstations where when the user created a calendar event in their Kerio calendar, there was no option to invite people to the...
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The PowerShell Team at Microsoft have put in a lot of work to port PowerShell to other (non-Windows) systems. As part of their porting efforts, they've also ported OpenSSH over to Windows, but that's not what this post is about....
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