Archive for Applications

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Dec17

Weekend of Virus Removal!

by John on December 17, 2012 at 6:00 AM
Posted In: Applications, IT, Windows

I don’t deal with “user”-type issues at my current job, so my exposure to these sorts of things has been drastically reduced to the occasional friend or family member. This past weekend was one such experience, and an experience it was! […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Dec14

Nagios v3 & Centreon v2 Guide

by John on December 14, 2012 at 7:16 PM
Posted In: Applications, IT, Linux

Intro Nagios is an incredible tool for monitoring your IT infrastructure. It offers monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, routers, firewalls, applications, services, and can be configured for just about any networkable device using SNMP. As powerful as it already […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep12

MS SQL Server Express 2008 Remote Connections

by John on September 12, 2012 at 8:59 PM
Posted In: Applications, IT, Windows

After installing a fresh instance of Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008, you may find that you are unable to make a remote connection from another machine. There are a number of items you should check to troubleshoot this: Enable the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep12

BareTail for Windows

by John on September 12, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Posted In: Applications, IT, Linux, Windows

Monitoring logs in Linux is a dream. The tail tool by itself, and especially piped into other tools, makes for an incredible log monitoring tool which if you work in Linux environments regularily, you get pretty reliant on. Unfortunately, the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep10

IMG Files & VirtualBox

by John on September 10, 2012 at 5:27 PM
Posted In: Applications, IT

While working on a test environment at work, I downloaded an IMG file from Microsoft to install a couple language packs on a server I was configuring. For most of my testing I use VirtualBox on my local workstation, so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep07

Uninstalling Symantec AV Without Install Password

by John on September 7, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Posted In: Applications, IT, Windows

Once in a while you may run into a password protected installation of Symantec AV. (Who knows who put it there, but they probably aren’t around anyone, you don’t have the password, and if it was you then we will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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