It seems my Windows-fu is lacking a bit in my sysprep knowledge. As it turns out, you can't sysprep a Windows machine more than three times. Unfortunately you get no warning about this until you've run sysprep for the 3rd...
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Issues installing Windows 8 on a new Retina MacBook Pro
I've spent too long this morning trying to install Windows 8 on a new Retina MacBook Pro. The first error I received was that "Windows can't be installed in drive 0 partition 4" with more detail giving the error message "The selected disk...
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Delete hiberfil.sys on Windows 7
Quick tip to allow you to delete hiberfil.sys on a Windows system. Run CMD as Administrator and enter power cfg /hibernate off If this doesn't automatically delete C:\hiberfil.sys then you can go in and delete it manually. Why do you...
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Set up an NFS mount and connect to it on CentOS/RHEL Linux
NFS mounts have two parts. The first part is the server that hosts the share point. The second part is the client that access the share point. You can have one or more clients accessing the same share point on an...
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Get some of my new how-to guides…
I've started putting up some how-to guides that I can direct people to so I don't have to answer the same questions time and time again. Here they are: Automatica Guidebook - Automatica How To Guides
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Hide Recovery HD after cloning an OS X installation
Sometimes when you clone an OS X installation, for example using Carbon Copy Cloner, it will create a Recovery HD partition but not hide it for you. The "hidden" status of a partition is determined by it's partition type -...
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Reset OS X Mountain Lion web server settings
I've been doing a fair amount of non-standard tweaking to Mountain Lion's web services. It's not difficult to completely break the web server, and initially it looks like it's near impossible to fix it unless you know exactly what you...
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Data Corruption on Promise Pegasus R4 Thunderbolt RAID
I recently set up a Mac mini Server with a Promise Pegasus R4 RAID. I reinitialised the array a RAID6. I left the stripe size at the default of 128k, and changed the block size to 4k as this should...
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SSL Certs on sale at GoDaddy
Yes, if there's one thing that GoDaddy are good at, it's pimping their wares. Occasionally though their sales are useful. Like this one - if you're running your own mail server or a website with a dedicated IP, you can...
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Get rid of items stuck in the Outbox of Outlook 2011
Outlook 2011 for Mac has an annoying habit of getting items stuck in it's outbox and often it's not clear (or even possible) to see where these items are to delete them. You will often see this happen if you...
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