Statistics – YouTube

Statistics – YouTube:



'100 Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute'



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Windows XP End of Service

Windows XP End of Service:



Are you running XP?

Love it.



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WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" - Slashdot

WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" - Slashdot:

More WiFi Woes...



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Thieves Reaching for Linux—"Hand of Thief" Trojan Targets Linux #INTH3WILD » Speaking of Security - The RSA Blog and Podcast

Thieves Reaching for Linux—"Hand of Thief" Trojan Targets Linux #INTH3WILD » Speaking of Security - The RSA Blog and Podcast:



So, not as safe on Linux as was thought?



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Upgrade Bitcoin to v0.9.0

Bitcoin v0.9.0 is out, now with an x64 version for Windows. You should probably upgrade if you don't want to lose your billions in Bitcoins?
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.9.0.md

Brightness control from Linux using grub parameter

Brightness on my HP Probook 4740s requires a Grub parameter to work properly.
Edit /etc/defaults/grub to add "acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line.
Then run "grub-update".
Thanks:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/485869-OpenSUSE-brightness-control-problem-on-HP-ProBook-4740s

Securing SQL Server connections with a certificate

I had an issue trying to get a SQL server to use a certificate to secure a connection with SSL.
The certificate was selected in SQL configuration manager but when the SQL service was restarted, it would fail with an EventID 26104 indicating it couldn't read find the certificate.

After a bit of googling, I found this:
http://nickstips.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/sql-ssl-and-sql-server-2008-service-doesnt-start-error-code-2146885628/

Turns out, if you run your SQL server under a non-privileged account as per best practice, the account can't read the private key of the certificate.

Altering the certificate permissions to allow your SQL server to read the certificate private key allows the SQL server to start.

Sharing or collaborating with government documents | Standards Hub

UK Goverment proposes open standard for sharing information: ODT, ODS, TXT, CSV, PDF, HTML.

Sharing or collaborating with government documents | Standards Hub:

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Citrix Receiver 13 on Linux

Seems to be quite broken on any form of Ubuntu, but I have managed to install on Fedora 20 i686 (Mate) with some success:

sudo yum install libpng12 xerces-c
sudo rpm -Uvh ICAClient-13-0.0.256735-0.i386.rpm ctxusb-2.4.256735-1.i386.rpm
cd /opt/Citrix/ICAClient
./selfservice

Backup or move your Google data

https://www.google.com/takeout allows you to backup or move your Google data. Visit the site, sign-in and then choose what to archive and in what format.

I was surprised to learn that I've got 8GB, but that is all my emails, attachments, videos etc.

The data will be available as a downloadable archive, but you can visit the site again in the future as required.

Java 7 update 51 blocks Citrix receiver for Java

Reports of users being unable to use the Java client for Citrix from Citrix Access Gateway (CAG) are caused by a security update Oracle have applied to Java.

Information available from the Citrix forums here:
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/346128-java-7-update-51-due-for-release-in-january-2014-will-block-receiver-for-java-101/

Citrix have release a patched version (v10.1.007) which is available here:
http://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/other-platforms/receiver-for-java-101.html

Kasperky AV support for Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1

This is now supported in Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 Maintenance Release 1.
More info (and download) here:
http://support.kaspersky.co.uk/10578

Word KB2837593 patch causing 100% CPU useage

Updating an image for a VMWare View VDI Desktop, I applied all of the recent Microsoft Office 2010 patches. However, when the desktops were refreshed, all started three copies of Winword.exe running under the System account. One of these copies of Word was using 100% which created mayhem on the VDI platform.

I've removed KB2837593 from the VMWare View VDI desktop image and the platform seems to have stabilised. We aren't seeing this on our Citrix XenDesktop platform, but this also doesn't have the KB2837593 patch applied yet.

Has anyone else seen this? Please feedback if you have.

Unity Tweak now available for Ubuntu

Running the following commands will install Unity Tweak into Ubuntu for you: 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freyja-dev/unity-tweak-tool-daily

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

Thanks to OMG Ubuntu for the instructions:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/02/introducing-unity-tweak-tool

Thanks to PupptLinuxWorld for the heads up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SWM4YFO2gA

Matching users from a CSV against Active Directory using PowerShell

I am trying to match users I have in a CSV with two columns (givenName and sn) against active directory.


The following script produces no output at all, not even an error:
Import-Csv input.csv | foreach {Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(&(givenName=$_.givenName)(sn=$_.sn))"}


The components work individually:

• Import-Csv input.csv
• Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(&(givenName=karl)(sn=foley))"
• Import-Csv input.csv | foreach {write-host $_.givenName,$_.sn}

I've also verified that there are no extra characters in the csv using:
Import-Csv input.csv | foreach {write-host $_.givenName,$_.givenName.length,$_.sn,$_.sn.length}


What am I doing wrong please?

[all variants] AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics works

How to setup AMD\Intel Hybrid graphics for Ubuntu:

[all variants] AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics works:


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Win8/Hyper-V: “What Works and What Doesn’t” Edition | Rob Seder's Blog - ARCHIVE

Win8/Hyper-V: “What Works and What Doesn’t” Edition | Rob Seder's Blog - ARCHIVE:

Allow Hyper-V on Windows 8 to share your WiFi adaptor for network access.
1. Create an internal switch.
2. Allow the WiFi adaptor to be shared.
3. Connect the WiFI adaptor to the internal network switch.

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How To Integrate Dropbox & Google Drive Into Office 2013

How To Integrate Dropbox & Google Drive Into Office 2013:

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Install vmwaretools on SLES 11 | BioliZards.be

Install vmwaretools on SLES 11 | BioliZards.be:

Key commands to run before the main install:

    yast2 -i gcc
    yast2 -i kernel-source

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UbuntuUpdates - PPA: GetDeb Apps

UbuntuUpdates - PPA: GetDeb Apps:

I had some problems getting the new version of Vuze to run on Ubuntu 12.04 and after having tried many things came across teh following PPA information.

Vuze wouldn't display web or search content because of missing libraries and misconfiguration. The following lines allow you to install Vuze5 as a package:

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'"

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vuze

More info here:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/getdeb_apps?dist=precise

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