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Rod's Tech: March 2013
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Dreamhost.com My New Favorite Web Hosting Company. Ok, so many years ago (10 ) I first bought my own domain name, and for the first little while I hopped around from hosting ISP to hosting ISP, and finally settled on Media Temple about 8 years ago and stuck with them all that time mostly out of inertia. They have one click installs of all kinds of popular web software like mediawiki, Wordpress, Joomla, Moodle, phpBB, OpenVBX, ZenCart, and more! All of that and it was 1/2 the pr...
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Rod's Tech: November 2012
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Friday, November 16, 2012. Watch What Permissions You Give. Watch what permissions you grant to apps on social sites and on your cell phone. I logged into Facebook today and there was a message ". Wants to include you as a travel connection in Tripadvisor.". I clicked it and saw this (faces obscured for privacy reasons):. Sunday, November 11, 2012. This is a little follow-up to the post about learning to program in python. I thought I would throw some code out there for people to play with. Is a start), ...
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Rod's Tech: January 2013
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Friday, January 11, 2013. Right now my internet is down. Yes, I'm blogging and my internet is down. And the sad news is because it's a phone company problem it'll probably be down for days. I'll just share my internet with you." A couple of clicks later, and we were both sitting comfortably on the couch with our laptops, surfing the internet as usual. Edit: 2:25 PM 13/01/2013 :. Bell guy came and switched us to another pair, one of the wire in our pair on te drop was broken. Damned squirrels! Ever wished...
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Rod's Tech: Finding The Culprit Of High Bandwidth Use
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Saturday, August 17, 2013. Finding The Culprit Of High Bandwidth Use. On Wednesday I was visiting my parents and Dad mentioned that over the last 2 months he'd been seeing some high bandwidth use on his home DSL. Typically in the past they'd never used more than 10-15GB/month because they don't use streaming video and the biggest bandwidth hog is probably uploading photos to Facebook. Lately it has had occasional days where the use has gone up to 5-7 GB in a day. Tshark.exe -i Wi-Fi -z conv,ip,ip dst...
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Rod's Tech: August 2013
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Saturday, August 17, 2013. Finding The Culprit Of High Bandwidth Use. On Wednesday I was visiting my parents and Dad mentioned that over the last 2 months he'd been seeing some high bandwidth use on his home DSL. Typically in the past they'd never used more than 10-15GB/month because they don't use streaming video and the biggest bandwidth hog is probably uploading photos to Facebook. Lately it has had occasional days where the use has gone up to 5-7 GB in a day. Tshark.exe -i Wi-Fi -z conv,ip,ip dst...
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Rod's Tech: November 2013
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013. Sophos UTM (with 10 licenses for Endpoint Protection) Free For Home Use. Sophos previously didn't have a full featured home-use antivirus. Recently they made their UTM product (the firewall formerly known as Astaro Linux) available for free to home users and it comes with 10 licenses for home use for the full featured Endpoint Protection client. Having played around with it a bit at home I would rank it's UTM firewall capabilities fairly low in terms of flexibility compared to...
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Rod's Tech: SysInternals
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Friday, September 06, 2013. It's been a while since I last posted something truly a tech tip for everyday users. This is not something ground breaking and way out in the realm of the really techie user. Every user who is even moderately techie ought to already know about this, but for the enthusiast home user or future IT pro who hasn't yet run across Sysinternals. Formerly WinInternals) you are really missing out. If you are making presentations often, or have a visual impairment, ZoomIt is a screen zoo...
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Rod's Tech: May 2013
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013. Today is the first day of Zombie Awareness month. As such, I’d like to talk to you about the computer type of zombies. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. A brewing blog. Follow my adventures (and misadventures) in learning the art of brewing. Links To Cool Tech Sites. This Week In Tech. The Stars of MST3K Mock Modern Movies at RiffTrax.com.
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Rod's Tech: September 2013
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Thursday, September 19, 2013. Is It a VM? Having a hard time keeping track of which machines on your network are virtual? I have just the script for you. I wanted to have a way to quickly find out what machines were virtual at work, so I whipped this up in PowerShell today. String]$ComputerName = 'localhost',. If ($ComputersListFile) {$computers = Get-Content -Path $ComputersListFile} else {$computers = $ComputerName}. Else {Write-Output "This machine is probably not a VM"}. Run it like this:. Added a li...
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Rod's Tech: Why You Want Your Next File Server To Be Win2012 - Dedup
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013. Why You Want Your Next File Server To Be Win2012 - Dedup. In the teaser post. I showed you this image. It is a little bit misleading. My 722GB of data actually occupies 483.72 GB of disk space. To compress it down to less than 2gb would require a type of black magick even Microsoft isn't able to produce. So how do you go about setting up deduplication? For starters, you need a separate disk from your OS boot disk. (you can't dedup c:). Go into Server Manager. In the next po...
