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Health and Fitness

Determination

  “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius…

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Technical

Server 2008 R2 BSOD after Bare Metal Restore

After completing the BMR process don’t restart. Select Command Prompt. regedt32<CR> Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, File>Load Hive>[restored volume]:\Windows\System32\Config\SYSTEM>Open>Key Name = Restored_HKLM>OK. Expand Restored_HKLM\ControlSet001\services and ensure the…

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Computing

Migrate Windows DHCP server

A few weeks ago at work, I was tasked with the project of decommissioning one of our older Windows Server 2008 machines and upgrading…

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Technical

Set AD Attributes

You can also view and set these values with PowerShell, provided you have the ActiveDirectory module installed. View: Get-ADUser <username> -Properties extensionattribute1 Set: Set-ADUser…

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Computing

Mikrotik VPN place rule before dummy rule

/ip firewall filter add chain=forward dst-address=”remoterange” src-address=”localrange” place-before=0 /ip firewall filter add chain=forward dst-address=”localrange” src-address=”remoterange” place-before=0

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Health and Fitness

Stubborn Belly Fat

Let’s Get Rid of Belly Fat, Shall We? • Stubborn Belly Fat? Drink a protein shake (100-130 calories and 20-25g protein) 10 minutes before…

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Computing

Change Centos IP address

In common situation, "system ip address" is the ETH0 address. So edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 with your favourite text editor and run service network restart ps…

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