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Knight-time Ramblings: Outsourced Authentication – Smart or Dumb?
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Thursday, August 18, 2011. Outsourced Authentication – Smart or Dumb? A couple of months ago I closed my Facebook account, partly because of the continual privacy abuse by Facebook, but mostly because of what I thought was poor tooling for managing my social graph and timeline. Since that point I’ve noticed more and more companies outsourcing their authentication mechanism to Facebook. Smart or dumb? Great Little Book P...
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Knight-time Ramblings: Workarounds For When “Add Virtual Hard Disk Wizard” Fails (Which Seems To Be All The Time…)
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Monday, August 22, 2011. Workarounds For When “Add Virtual Hard Disk Wizard” Fails (Which Seems To Be All The Time…). A GUI-friendly way to work around this problem is to point Computer Management at the Hyper-V host and use Disk Management to Create the VHD. Another way of doing this quickly is by using VHD Tool. Create vdisk file=”d: path to file.vhd” maximum= size in MB type=fixed. On all the Windows Server 2003-base...
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Knight-time Ramblings: Hyper-V Integration Components for FreeBSD 8.2 has landed!
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Friday, August 10, 2012. Hyper-V Integration Components for FreeBSD 8.2 has landed! The Microsoft Openness Blog. Has just announced that the github repository for FreeBSD 8.2 Hyper-V integration components. This is currently a public beta for evaluation purposes only, so expect some rough edges still. Instructions for compiling the source code and installing the drivers can be found here. Subscribe in a reader.
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Knight-time Ramblings: Agentless Bandwidth Testing on Windows
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Agentless Bandwidth Testing on Windows. Running on Windows for bandwidth and latency testing of some 3G WAN tails so I compiled them using Cygwin. They can be found here. To be a nice tool for bandwidth testing on Windows systems, but it does require a Windows system either side of the link you’re testing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Brazen Careerist - Penelope Trunk.
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Knight-time Ramblings: Reset 30 Day Grace Timer for Windows XP/Windows Server 2003
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Reset 30 Day Grace Timer for Windows XP/Windows Server 2003. I had to do this today as part of recovering a system from hardware failure. This won't be the last time I'll have to do this, so documented for the next time. Rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Brazen Careerist - Penelope Trunk. MPECS Inc. Blog - Philip Elder.
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Knight-time Ramblings: Installing .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Friday, November 23, 2012. Installing .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. There are a few ways of handling this - use the installation media and DISM to install it, set up a GPO to use Windows Update as an alternate installation path, or copy the WinSxS folder off the install media to a network share and configuring a GPO to use this share as an alternate installation path. If you want to configure ...
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Knight-time Ramblings: Microsoft Camera Codec Pack Update for Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT – Woot!
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Tuesday, October 23, 2012. Microsoft Camera Codec Pack Update for Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT – Woot! Microsoft have released an update for Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT that provides support for device-specific RAW formats, allowing you to preview these files in Explorer as well as display them in any program that uses the Windows Imaging Codecs. Leica: DIGILUX 3, D-LUX 4, M8, M8.2, M9. Panasonic: Lumix DMC-G1, Lumix DMC-G...
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Knight-time Ramblings: Images Are Fixed Now
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Friday, September 02, 2011. Images Are Fixed Now. I've restored all the blog images now. Did I mention I hate Picasa Albums? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Brazen Careerist - Penelope Trunk. MPECS Inc. Blog - Philip Elder. SBS Diva Blog - Susan Bradley. Small Biz Thoughts by Karl Palachuk. Virtual PC Guy's WebLog. Vlad Mazek - Vladville Blog. Windows Server Division WebLog. Quote of the Day.
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Keira McIntosh's SMB Technology Manifesto: SMB Need to Know - new podcast series from Robert Crane
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Keira McIntosh's SMB Technology Manifesto. As a technology business owner, sales and marketing professional and Australian SBSC PAL for FY10 and FY11, this blog is a forum to communicate with other SMB IT Professionals about business, technology and other interesting stuff. Sunday, September 5, 2010. SMB Need to Know - new podcast series from Robert Crane. All of us struggle to keep up with everything going in this industry, blogs, industry press, training etc etc etc. So. Much. Information. Doing podcas...
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Knight-time Ramblings: Windows Server 8 Developer Preview - Networking Problem
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Meandering thoughts of the Knight household, mostly work and technology related guff. Thursday, December 22, 2011. Windows Server 8 Developer Preview - Networking Problem. It this point I compared the ‘netsh int tcp show global’ and ‘netsh int ip show global’ outputs with the defaults from a Windows Server 2008 R2 box and noticed that ‘ECN Capability’ in the TCP Global Parameters for Windows Server 8 Developer Preview was Enabled. I set this to disabled using:. Netsh int tcp set global ecn=disabled.
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