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Today I installed Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, to run a few test VMs on. When installing Hyper-V, it warned me that it was a pre-release version, and that it needed an update. I did a Windows Update, to get all of the other updates, but it didn’t seem to upgrade Hyper-V. I didn’t install …
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There may be occasions where you, as the administrator of a machine, may want to see what cron entries your users have. Maybe you have slow downs at a particular time every day, and want to see who’s running what. All crontab’s, for all users, are stored in /var/spool/cron/crontabs on Debian and Ubuntu, as plain …
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There are some icons which aren’t classed as notifications, you may want to remove from the Windows 7 task bar. Items like the clock, volume, network, and power icons are all classed as system icons, and not part of the normal “Desktop Notifications” settings (where you would find icons for Live Messenger, Outlook, etc). If …
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Telnet is missing from the default install of Windows 7, as it was in Windows Vista. The process, though, to install it is exactly the same as before: Start by opening Control Panel and then go to Programs and Features Then once open, down the left-hand side, you’ll see an option Turn Windows Features on …
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With no Quick Launch bar enabled by default, how do you show the desktop in Windows 7? Well, there are two ways – one using the mouse, and one using a keyboard shortcut. The Windows Shortcut is “Windows Key + D” – so if you press those two, then you’ll get to see the desktop. …
Finally, Microsoft have incorporated ISO Image burning/writing to disc in Windows 7! It’s also very easy to do. On any .iso image you have, you can now right click on it and go to: Burn disc image. You’ll then get a simple screen where you can select the burner, whether you want to run a …
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Windows 7 now includes ISO Image burning straight to disc, but what if you want to mount the image and not burn it? This functionality is still not built in, but this tip: http://droptips.com/mount-an-iso-image-under-windows-982000xpvista does work fine on Windows 7, too! If you do want to burn the ISO image to disc, then please see: …
If like me, you have a particular path on a server you always upload files to, via SCP, then you’ll probably want a better way than typing the full path into the scp command everytime you upload a file! This command has been tested on OS X, but there’s no reason it wouldn’t work on …
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There may be occasions where you want to connect to a host with a long host name, for example ssh servername.example.com – now it’s not massive, but it’s not as quick as ssh servername If you’ve been following droptips.com, you’ll have noticed my other post about setting the port number in the SSH config file …
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If you run an SSH server, or many SSH servers, then you may have set the SSH daemon to run on a non-standard port. SSH normally listens on port 22, but with the large amount of script/bot attacks now on this port, attempting random logins, changing it to something different is a quick way to …
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