Technology Tips, and Anything Else
Like Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the Telnet client isn’t installed by default. In Windows Server 2008, you can install it via the Server Manager GUI tool, but it is often quicker to install it via a command prompt/terminal. So, open a cmd.exe session and run the following: servermanagercmd -install telnet-client And that’s it – …
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I like to watch Apache log files using tail -f but they often get filled up with data I don’t want/need to see – like, when I access the web site. grep is a great tool to search for certain information in text files – but it can also exclude certain pieces of information which …
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What is Aero Glass Remoting? Can I use Aero Glass on a remote Terminal Services/Remote Desktop session? Well, with Windows Server 2008 R2, Yes you can! It’s basically replicating the user experience you get locally of Aero Glass, on remote sessions. It may be useful for task switching etc. Check the guide out below: http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/06/23/aero-glass-remoting-in-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
Uptime, uptime, uptime. Everyone loves massive uptime, right? The “Who’s PC has been on the longest without a reboot?” sort of challenges. Well, finding out the uptime on an OS X machine is quite easy! If you open a Terminal (by using Spotlight, then searching for Terminal or open Applications/Utilities and double click Terminal) and …
Instead of going through the long-winded way of installing features using Server Manager, you can install PowerShell quickly in Windows Server 2008 from the command line using the following command: servermanagercmd -install powershell Why use the GUI when the command line is much quicker?
During the last few months, I’ve been waking up to mass floods of DCC SEND from bots/people trying to exploit random clients into accepting a file over IRC. I use irssi for connecting to IRC – it’s an extremely configurable text based client, so I wanted a way to just ignore these DCC requests – …
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You’ll have noticed that Windows 7 is pretty strict with some applications on the tasks they can perform – I often find myself needing elevated privileges in a Command Prompt to edit the routing table for example. You can, of course, right click on the application from the start menu and run as Administrator, but …
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