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Buying a PC running Windows Vista, well get the Windows 7 upgrade

MWahl | September 19, 2009 | 9:50 am

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/upgrade.aspx

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Windows 7 for 30 bux for students

MWahl | September 19, 2009 | 9:33 am

Visit the link below and follow the instructions.

 

http://www.win741.com

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Exchange server 2003 Store.exe process causes high CPU

MWahl | September 17, 2009 | 6:33 pm

So I ran into a situation today where my  exchange server suddenly had 100% CPU for hours. Restarted the information store providing temporary relief but the issue came back. After reviewing logs and the event viewer  I was ready to stop the information store and check the intregity of the information stores. Thankfully we found this article from Microsoft and it solved the issue, atleast it has been hours and the issue has not returned. Please note, if you have a blackberry server you will want to copy over certain  .dll files from the updated bin directory of the exchange server. Hope this saves someone some time.

Just an update the next day my issue returned…After opening a support ticket with Microsoft it looks like it may have been due to some issues in one of the information stores. After running the ISINTEG -s (servername) -fix -test -alltests  utility on that store ans now i have to wait and see if that solved my problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970103

http://www.msexchange.org/

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Clonezilla

MWahl | September 15, 2009 | 9:21 pm

http://clonezilla.org/

What is Clonezilla ?

You’re probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You’ve probably also heard of Symantec’s solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!

Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC’s Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!

Features of Clonezilla

  • Free (GPL) Software.
  • Filesystem supported: ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows and Intel-based Mac OS, no matter it’s 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.
  • LVM2 (LVM version 1 is not) under GNU/Linux is supported.
  • Multicast is supported in Clonezilla SE, which is suitable for massively clone. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.
  • Based on Partimage, ntfsclone, partclone, and dd to clone partition. However, clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.
  • By using another free software drbl-winroll, which is also developed by us, the hostname, group, and SID of cloned MS windows machine can be automatically changed.

Which Clonezilla Shall I Use ?

  • Clonezilla Live: Clonezilla live allows you to use CD/DVD or USB flash drive to boot and run clonezilla (Unicast only)
  • Clonezilla SE: Clonezilla SE is included in DRBL, therefore a DRBL server must first be set up in order to use Clonezilla to do massively clone (unicast, broadcast and multicast are supported)
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Upgrading WordPress

MWahl | September 7, 2009 | 12:18 pm

How to manually upgrade
WordPress
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  1. Perform a complete backup of both your database and directory structure (in case something goes wrong)
  2. Login to your
    WordPress
    administration panel and deactivate all active plugins
  3. Download and extract the latest STABLE WordPresss version to a folder on your computer
  4. Upload the extracted files to your
    WordPress
    server directory with the exception of the following:

    • wp-content folder and it’s content
    • wp-includes/languages if you are using a custom language file
  5. To perform the upgrade, navigate to http://yoursitename/wp-admin/upgrade.php and follow the on screen steps
  6. Login to the administration panel and reactivate your plugins one by one to ensure that they still work with the new version of
    WordPress
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TechPosters: Technical Posters and Cheats for IT Guys

MWahl | September 6, 2009 | 7:29 am

http://posters.msug.vn.ua/default.aspx

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Read Your RSS & Social Feeds In A Whole New Light With Feedly

MWahl | September 6, 2009 | 7:26 am

http://www.feedly.com/

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CrackingWEP

MWahl | September 6, 2009 | 7:17 am

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CrackingWEP

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How to: install Windows (any version from XP to Win7) from a USB/flash drive

MWahl | September 6, 2009 | 7:14 am

http://dottech.org/headline/9157

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Windows Vista Deployment Step-by-Step Guide

MWahl | September 6, 2009 | 6:56 am

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721929(WS.10).aspx

http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/sysprepvista.htm

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