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Things that hold us back

Some notes regarding a Brian Tracy Series of Videos http://youtu.be/RILoZ0Vx4Xc Feelings of: Doubt & Fear Guilt & Unworthiness Inferiority & Undeservingness Emotional habits are learned. We can unlearn bad emotions. Law of Cause and Effect. Find someone...

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Testing a Remote Computers WMI Connectivity

Just had a situation where I ghosted then virtualized a Windows SBS2003 server once it was on VMWare I installed SBS2003 Service Pack 1 and all the patches required for a SBS2011 upgrade. Unseen by me this appears to have updated the Domain firewall Policy and turned...

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Ghost Boot Wizard Fails at Preparing Disks

Just spent an unproductive morning try to get the Ghost Boot Wizard (version 11.5.1.2266) to copy a winpe image to a Vebatim 4GB USB Key (NG04G2520005743DML) I would go through the wizard and when I got to the end and it said "Preparing Disks" GBW would exit - no...

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UMBrello KDE UML Diagram Creator

Update: Not a fan of Umbrello has a lot of features for UML but too many functionality gotcha's and bugs (from a user stand point I can't comment on it's UML implementation because I'm a newb on UML) I ran into the can't a Anchor a Note to an Activity with error...

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QCAD 3

My most favourite open source application QCAD is now at version 3. I buy a license for the "Pro" version because it's just a fantastic easy to use product. At my $DAYJOB today I found out QCAD 3 (I was using RC5) can open dwg files so now it's as useful to me as the...

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Setting wget to use a HTTPS proxy

Edit /etc/wgetrc for global change or ~/.wgetrc for a per user change and add: http_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 https_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 ftp_proxy = http://192.168.50.22:3128 Where 192.168.50.22 is the IP Address of your proxy server and 3128 is...

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