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I have a work phone which I use as my personal phone also. So there is a lot of stuff like personal photos co-existing on the device. When I return the phone I want to know that the next IT person that get's the phone will not be able to run a file recovery utility...

Just looking at a Digital Ocean SSD performance test here http://www.itekhost.net/digitalocean-performance-benchmarks/ Decided to run my own on my Rackspace "1 GB Performance" VPS The DO benchmark gave 355MB/s note the performance of the Rackspace VPS: dd if=/dev/zero...

These tutorials are very interesting if you are running nginx and would like to use more than the standard options. http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/nginx-conf-scripting.html#1 http://openresty.org/download/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-en.html

Trying to connect to a share \\linuxpc1\jamesm from Windows 7 to a Debian box I have a local user defined with the settings below getent passwd jamesm jamesm:x:1000:1000:jamesm,,,:/home/jamesm:/bin/bash Getting an error in /var/log/samba/log.__ffff_192.168.0.109 and...

Just saw this in my inbox. An email saying I need to change my Logmein.com SSL cert and a link to 'new' cert. Screenshot of the email: If you Download the ssl.zip and unzip it you get a "logmein_ssl_certificate.pif: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows"...

I've been using http://www.netcraft.com for many years to have a look at what technologies are powering different sites, which IP netblock they are on and whether they have been moved over time. You go to the home page, find the "What’s that site running?" form, enter...

Got an error when attempting to activate office of 0x80070190 Tried running office as an adminstrator and doing the activation still got and error So started an administrative command prompt cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14 cscript ospp.vbs /act...

Things I discovered / Googled. You need to enable the "Remote Registry" Service make sure it's running. The correct firewall ports need to be open http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/firewall-ports-push-deployment And you need to add a value to allow UAC to bypass...

I use Fedora 20 at home and Windows 7 at work but I like to be able to have a consistent environment across my Workstations. The following is a list of productivity applications that gets installed on both Windows and Linux.