William Rendell

Cloud Computing

admin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:34:40 +0000

Change Chrome’s cache location

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:20:45 +0000

If you amend the shortcut for chome by appending this at the end of chrome.exe

--user-data-dir=\"type the full path of your own cache folder here\"

You can change where your Google Chrome cache is.

Excel 2003 slow opening files across network

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:55:56 +0000

Please see the below link, its to to with some an Office 2003 update for Excel

Uninstall Excel update #KB2541025 and also #KB2502786

http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/749154-2.htm

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yum-complete-transaction

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:13:52 +0000

Using yum to manage installing, upgrading or removing packages in Linux is a great little tool. Sometimes when running a yum transaction you may get a warning that you need to run “yum-complete-transaction” as you have pending or incomplete transactions.

Simply running yum-complete-transaction will not do the trick if you have not first ran

yum install yum-utils

Once you have installed yum-utils you can then run yum-complete-transaction to fix your yum problems.

Note…
yum-complete-transaction – finds incomplete or aborted yum transactions and attempts to complete them

More information regarding yum-utils and the use of them can be found here.

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Paypal Twitter account hacked

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:19:56 +0000

A disgruntled customer has hacked in to the Twitter account of Paypal UK this evening.

The Twitter account has now been suspended after anti paypal tweets were made.

Fire at Cheltenham Trade Park

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:10:33 +0000

A fire broke out at Unit 17 Cheltenham Trade Park yesterday causing serious loss of both building and business for Classic Catering. Smart Computers Ltd and Washington Printing who have the units either side of Classic Catering were very lucky not to have been destroyed. If it not been for the courages efforts of the Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service. I am sure that matters would eb a lot worse. Smart Computers suffered from water and smoke damage.

Quote from Beryl Penfold a local resident and my sister

Firemen did a great job stopping it spreading….. when i got round there the flames were raging from the roof and blowing Smarts

way……….. Very Lucky……..

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Miles and Mason in Fire Engine

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:44:25 +0000

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How to change the RDP port on XP

admin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:39:46 +0000

Sometimes you may want to access more than one PC or Server via RDP through your firewall. This can be a problem if you only have one external IP address. One thing you can do to get round this is to change the listening port on the target PC. This can be done by changing the registry as described below. WARNING This site will not be liable for any problems that may arise from you following this article. Always make sure you have good backups.

The Standard RDP port is TCP:3389, lets pretend for this example you have this port forwarded to PC1 (192.168.0.1) but you need to access PC2 (192.168.0.2) via RDP from outside of your router/firewall. On PC2 make the registry change below using port number 3390.

Start Registry Editor.

Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber

On the Edit menu, click Modify, and then click Decimal.

Type the new port number, and then click OK.

Quit Registry Editor.

Restart the computer.

Create a rule on your router/firewall that port forwards TCP:3390 to 192.168.0.2 (PC2), then when you RDP to your external IP address or hostname simply add :3390 at the end.

Example

RDP to yourextipaddress will connect you to PC1 (192.168.0.1)

RDP to yourextipaddress:3390 will connect you to PC2 (192.168.0.2)

Make sure you use strong very strong passwords, and always try to limit what ports you expose to the Internet.

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Just outside Cirencester

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:56:34 +0000

I had to stop and take a photo when I saw this, it next to where I am working today.

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Its War, Me v Red Mites

admin — Mon, 23 May 2011 09:03:13 +0000

While cleaning the chicken coop yesterday, I noticed that I had a lot more creatures living in the coop than my 7 chickens. Although they are called Red Mites, they are only red once they have been feeding on the chickens blood over night. With out having a full belly of chickens blood they are more translucent grey’ish colour.

I have dusted the nesting box with Diatom and have sprayed a disinfectant inside of the coop, making sure that, I got it in all the nooks and crannies. I will spray the inside of the coop again this evening.

Poultry Healthcare products can be found here at Chicken Pages

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