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[Android Tech Solutions]

Solved: Updating partition details… Unable to open zip file. Error flashing zip

When trying to flash my old Motorola Xoom using this excellent guide http://www.

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Useful SSL Certificate Creation and Management Tool

After years of mastering many OpenSSL commands to create and convert SSL certificate some one has made a nice wrapper around OpenSSL

[Tech Solutions]

CSR Harmony Wireless Software Stack Cinolink BT403 Bluetooth Drivers

As they only provide the drivers on a mini CD I had to get someone with a CD drive to copy the files for me.

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How to Deauthorize Adobe Digital Editions

To deauthorize press CTRL + Shift + D Then authorize it again via the Help menu

[Personal Tech Solutions]

Testing Anti-Virus Application Interoperability with DFS Replication – Best practices to follow for antivirus on DFS replicas

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2006/05/01/testing-anti-virus-application-interoperability-with-dfs-replication/

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Exporting Active Directory Users Into CSV

It took far too long to find this very very useful command online so I thought I’d repost to help others find it.

[Linux Tech Solutions]

Cheat Sheet: How to run sequential linux commands

Run sequential linux commands and more cheat sheet:

[Linux Tech Solutions Ubuntu]

Solution: libpam-radius-auth: Sends out 127.0.0.1 as NAS-IP-Address

Symptom When authentication linux to radius using libpam-radius-auth: Sends out 127.

[Linux Tech Solutions]

Remove comments and empty lines with grep

Remove comments and empty lines with grep grep -v -e ^# -e ^$ filename

[Microsoft Tech Solutions Windows]

Powershell Script to Check if a Website is Up and if Not Restart a service

The below PowerShell script check the website is responding AND doesn’t returns a certain string, if either test is failed then a Windows service is restarted, forcefully if necessary after a grace period.

[How To Microsoft Tech Solutions Tips Windows]

Solution: Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch Pressure Sensitivity in Photoshop

So in order to use pressure sensitivity in Photoshop you MUST have Use Windows Ink enabled.

[Personal Tech Solutions]

Microsoft Disable IPv6 or Modify it’s behaviours

Handy little collection of patch files and advice on tweaking ipv6 configuration

[How To Music Tech Solutions Tips Video Weekend Project]

Weekend Project: Battery Powered Sonos Play:1

Following this video guide and the step up booster converter from ebay below I’m going to make a Sonos Play:1 battery powered so I can enjoy some lovely music on the balcony over the summer.

[Productivity Tech Solutions Tips]

Google Sheets Alternate Row Colour

You can use conditional formatting and either, or both of these Custom Formulas to colour alternate rows:

[Cisco How To Personal Tech Solutions Technology Technology]

Cisco How To Find A MAC Address By IP

From a switch that the device is plugged directly into (otherwise you’ll get the MAC of the next hop) first ping the IP address to ensure it’s in your ARP cache, then view the ARP cache, like so

[Linux Tech Solutions Tips Ubuntu]

Bash How To Find and Delete Empty Directories

Useful bash snippet to find empty directories find <em>ROOTDIRECTORY</em> -depth -empty -type d

[Apple Mac Tech Solutions Technology Tips]

[Solved] Mac Right Click Print Selected Files

As someone who works in IT I don’t find the need to print very much nowadays, mostly just for some procedural things at work.

[Microsoft Tech Solutions Tips Windows Windows 7]

Reinstalling TCP/IP Network Stack Windows 7

Taken from [https://pandapow.co/how-to/win-reset-adapter/] – These instructions were used by a colleague recently when his network stack was b0rK3n.

[Music Tech Solutions Technology Tips]

SOLVED: Spotify desktop client communication failed

If you receive the message Spotify desktop client communication failed when trying to Login with Facebook to the Spotify app here’s why and how to fix it.

[Linux Tech Solutions Ubuntu]

[FIXED] Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/vim-runtime_2%3a7.4.052-1ubuntu3_all.deb

Problem: vim install fails during dist-upgrade and running sudo apt-get -f install gives the error below syslog:/var/syslog-ng/wcs$ sudo apt-get -f install<br /> Reading package lists.

Tech Solutions

Solved: Updating partition details… Unable to open zip file. Error flashing zip

Useful SSL Certificate Creation and Management Tool

CSR Harmony Wireless Software Stack Cinolink BT403 Bluetooth Drivers

How to Deauthorize Adobe Digital Editions

Testing Anti-Virus Application Interoperability with DFS Replication – Best practices to follow for antivirus on DFS replicas

Exporting Active Directory Users Into CSV

Cheat Sheet: How to run sequential linux commands

Solution: libpam-radius-auth: Sends out 127.0.0.1 as NAS-IP-Address

Remove comments and empty lines with grep

Powershell Script to Check if a Website is Up and if Not Restart a service

Solution: Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch Pressure Sensitivity in Photoshop

Microsoft Disable IPv6 or Modify it’s behaviours

Weekend Project: Battery Powered Sonos Play:1

Google Sheets Alternate Row Colour

Cisco How To Find A MAC Address By IP

Bash How To Find and Delete Empty Directories

[Solved] Mac Right Click Print Selected Files

Reinstalling TCP/IP Network Stack Windows 7

SOLVED: Spotify desktop client communication failed

[FIXED] Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/vim-runtime_2%3a7.4.052-1ubuntu3_all.deb

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