In the past creating a bootable Windows USB installer was extremely easy, all you needed to do was download the ‘Windows 7 USB/DVD Backup Tool’ from Microsoft’s website, select the ISO, and then select the USB stick. Easy stuff. Sadly it’s not so easy with newer computers that have UEFI instead of BIOS. UEFI USB […]
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All you need to do to install IIS in Server 2012 and 2012 R2 super quickly is run the following command in an elevated PowerShell prompt. Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools -IncludeAllSubFeature
tl;dr Download and install the 32 bit version of Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 from this link. Refresh page and all should be fixed. If you’ve installed PHP 5.5 or 5.6 via the WebPlatform Installer on Windows Server 2012 R2 you may have noticed it refuses to work. Every PHP page
Update 2016.08.28: blog post replaced. please click here for new post. Sadly Apple no longer include restore discs with their machines, that doesn’t mean you can’t reinstall though. It’s fairly simple to create a bootable USB installer for Yosemite. All you need is a USB memory stick that’s 8GB or larger. Make sure you back it up
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By default OS X saves screenshots to your desktop, this can be very annoying but thankfully it’s very easy to change with just a quick command in Terminal. Put the following command into Terminal (replacing ‘/Users/jon/Pictures/Screenshots/’ with the location you want screenshots to be saved to):
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There are a couple of reasons you might want to change the RDP port on your Windows Server (e.g; if you’re sitting behind a NAT firewall and have multiple servers you need to administer remotely, or if you want to add some security (even if security by obscurity is stupid). Either way, it’s very simple
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I’m the kind of person that likes to have all of his documents easily available on all of his computers. For this I choose to use Microsoft OneDrive. In Windows it’s very easy to change the location of my Documents, Photos, and Music folder to folders within the OneDrive directory so whenever a change is made
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You need OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 or above to do this. You probably know that when you plug one of the new 12inch MacBooks into a power source it’ll make a chime noise (the same as iPhones and iPads). But did you know you can make your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air do the same thing?
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At the time of writing Apple have artificially limited the maximum RSA key size on OS X (and perhaps iOS too) to 4098 bits. Side note: the way you change the limit differs between OS X releases. In OS X Apple (for one reason or another) artificially limits the maximum RSA key size for certificates to 4k
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At the time of writing you can’t currently use reverse DNS with a PIP that you may have configured with your VM. Azure reverse DNS is attached to the cloud service your VM is in. Instructions on how to install and add a subscription to Azure PowerShell can be found here. 🙂 Microsoft have recently announced
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