Shrink VMDK
First open up Disk Management in Computer Management in your guest Windows environment. Right click the volume on the disk you want to shrink. Windows will inform you…
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System and Compressed Memory
I was looking at my system’s performance (Windows 10 Build 10565) and noticed something I hadn’t seen before “System and compressed memory” utilizing about 500MB. Looking into this…
Searching GMail with Regex
Interesting discussion in IT Professionals community I saw regarding needing to be able to search GMail for some IP addresses. I've tinkered around with a few things and…
vCenter Converter unable to see disks on source
I'm working on converting a physical 2008 R2 server to a virtual machine for ESX 4.1. I installed vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 on this machine and ran through…
Microsoft Camera Codec on Windows 10
I just installed Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview and have been going through and setting up some of my software for testing. I noticed that Windows isn't generating…
Upgrade to Windows 10 Free
Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade, within the first year of release, for users who are running Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1. Free…
IBM Storwize V3700
Just got our new IBM Storwize V3700 unit in today. Isn't she sexy?! Photos V3700 Startup This is a video I took using my Samsung S5 of the…
Clearing Command and Buffer History in Powershell
Clear Powershell’s last 10 commands: clear-history -count 10 -newest After executing that, use get-history to see what’s left… Clear the console buffer by scripting F7+2: [system.reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname("System.Windows.Forms") [System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::Sendwait('%{F7 2}')…
I love mutt
Mutt is a text-based email client for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Public License version 2…
Windows 8 Product Key Finder
I use pkeyui (h/t Rick Nash) to find the Windows 8 product key for reinstallation purposes. Works well and has not failed me in about a half dozen…
DNS Caching for Spamassassin RBLs
So I'm tweaking the mail filter server which is a Debian Linux server running Postfix, MailScanner and SpamAssassin. I just wanted to share some of the performance improvements…
Eww, iTunes.
Ugh, I have to install iTunes so I can activate this old iPhone 3GS. Wish I had a Steady State like back in the XP days on my…
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ldapsearch to get all SMTP email addresses
Cooked this up in a few minutes. Should return all proxyAddress that are SMTP and all SMTP default addresses for all users not disabled in a specified Organizational…
Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro Screen Flickering
I own a nice sleek Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro tablet/laptop device. One annoyance is the screen flickers when on Battery. I read on a few forums to go…