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Booting and Installing Ubuntu Linux LiveCD ISO from the grub2 menu

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Ubuntu 10.04 is just out and if your like me you will prefer to do a complete rebuild instead of attempting fate (upgrading).
Chances are every 6 months or so you will need to burn yet another Iso image onto cd for the one off time of installing your system.

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Windows Server 2008 Core Commands

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

A must have list of Windows Server 2008 Core commands

· Set IP Address: <Nic> <Dynamic or Static> <IP> <mask> <gateway>

o Netsh interface ip set address “Local Area Connection” static 192.168.10.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.10.1

· Set DNS <dns server ip>

o Netsh interface ip set dnsserver “Local Area Connection” static 192.168.10.10

· Rename Computer:

o Netdom renamecomputer <computername> /newname:<newcomputername>

· Join domain: please note paswordD should have two “D’s” because you are specifying a Domain password

o Netdom join <computername> /domain:<FQDN> /userD:<domain admin> /passwordD:<domain password> <or “*”>

· Enable Remote Administration
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Questions to ask and what to look for when buying a House

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Like many others, Im always out on the lookout for some property bargains, however when I do find a house its so easy to get caught up with certain bling an forget all about the must have important features you really require in a house.

I have put together a list of question to ask when dealing with agents, these question are broken down in to two type; contact by Phone or contact Face to Face ie: at the property inspection or open house.

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Repository for OzMyth is Back …

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Well it been a while now and have had many people (friends) asking when my OzMyth repository will be up and running

initially I started this as a mechanism of helping my friends out (and also so I wouldn’t have to keep spending my weekends rebuilding their MythTV boxes over and over again.

What I’ve done is simply created some metapackages to assist in the installation of MythTV as well as some configuration scripts

To use the repository simply add the following lines to you /etc/apt/sources.list file

Method 1

  1. open a terminal
  2. type in “sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list” to bring up the sources repository listing
  3. add the following codedeb http://bencic.net/repo/ hardy main
    deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
  4. type in “sudo aptitude update” to refresh the apt packages listing

Method 2

  1. open a terminal
  2. type in
    wget http://bencic.net/repo/pool/hardy/ozmyth-repo_2.0_all.deb
  3. type in
    dpkg -i ozmyth-repo_2.0_all.deb
  4. type in “sudo aptitude update” to refresh the apt packages listing

Once the repository is installed you can install OzMyth through Synaptics or via the command line sudo aptitide install ozmyth