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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iOS 11.4 brings stereo pairs and multi-room audio with AirPlay 2 – Apple
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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How Apple Dethroned Intel As the World’s Most Innovative Chipmaker
There's a very interesting article over on The Motley Fool today comparing Apple and Intel in an area where people wouldn't usually think they compete - that of designing the processors that power all of our devices today. Intel have...
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Download a file with PowerShell for Windows Server Core
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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Windows Service with PID 4 listening on TCP Port 443
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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Archicad + Munki
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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Troubleshooting AD replication error -2146893022: “The target principal name is incorrect”
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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Windows 10 – Remove Active Directory Users
We've been using cloud-based Active Directory through Office 365 for our Windows-based clients. It simplifies adding user accounts to Windows workstations because it's authenticating with their Office 365 credentials. When an account fails or needs to be removed from a...
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Force Exchange Online Archiving to start archiving email on Office 365
When you enable Exchange Online Archiving for a user on Office 365, it can take 24 hours or more for the Managed Folder Assistant to start it's first run and begin archiving email out of the primary mailbox. Edit: If...
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How did manufacturers manage to make space storage (SSD, HDD) so dense? – Quora
By continually refining methods and technology, by constantly evolving and pushing and exploring new areas of technology. One of the earlier breakthroughs was using perpendicular recording - this aligned the magnetic domains vertically (perpendicular to the platter) rather than having...
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