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2014

Piping Command Line output to clipboard
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Piping output of applications is nothing new to those in the profession of IT (especially the *nix administrators out there) but there was a feature added to Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 that doesn’t seem to be widespread.
Windows 8.1 Update 1 Publicly Released
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As I blogged about earlier, Windows 8.
Windows 8.1 Update 1 released early
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If you are not already aware, Microsoft have been preparing a whole host of improvements to Windows 8.
My foray into VMWare VMUG events
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Last November my dear friend @Pandom_ presented at the Melbourne VMUG (or MVMUG) event and asked me to tag along for the ride.
HP's + USB3 and Recovering Windows
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Recently I started a Computer Science course through EdX (more on that in a future post) and found I liked to flesh out some of my thoughts via pen + pad.

2013

Enable VNC server via SSH on OSX
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Continuing on with my previous posts theme of OSX, the next handy guide will demonstrate how to enable the VNC server (Microsoft people, think RDP server) via SSH.
Reset user account password in OSX
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Although I hope most SysAdmin’s don’t forget their passwords, it sometimes can happen.
Post Windows 8.1 Upgrade Cleanup
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One of the handy things about performing a in-place upgrade Windows versus a wipe/install upgrade is the option to rollback to your old copy of Windows if things didn’t turn out the way you like.
Windows 8.1 now available in the Windows Store
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Windows 8.
The Cloud
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There’s plenty of talk in the industry around ‘cloud computing’.