Windows Server 2012 R2 & HP Proliant Microserver

Windows Server 2012 R2 hangs on 'Getting devices ready 84%' Fails to Complete the installation on HP MicroServer Gen7 (N36L, N40L & N54L) The MicroServer N36, N40L and N54L all share the same embedded NC107i PCI Express gigabit NIC. The NC107i uses the Broadcom BCM5723 chip which doesn’t have an updated driver included with the Server 2012 R2 installation media. The lack of drivers will get you stuck at 84%... The current workaround is to disable the on-board NIC and install another card. Flash the custom BIOS to unlock the hidden BIOS screens Install...

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Global Smartphone Sales

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ITProDevConnections 2013

ITProDevConnections It's time to attend a conference this weekend all about technology with my friend nick. I`ll possibly stick to the networking & security area again as every year.... Hope it's gonna be good! See you on monda...

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Administer samba shares via SWAT

Is it hard for you to play with smb.conf and other stuff? Are you afraid of doing any mistakes? Then you have to think about using swat, the samba web administration tool. We will first install samba, cifs-utils, swat and xinted, all needed for our SWAT installation. sudo apt-get install samba cifs-utils swat xinetd Then we will go ahead and enable swat in our internet service deamon, sudo update-inetd --enable 'swat' sudo dpkg-reconfigure xinetd after xinetd, we will create the swat service. sudo cat > /etc/xinetd.d/swat <<-EOFservice...

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How to generate entropy in few easy steps

You will possibly need this for a PGP key.. So how to generate entropy through a secure shell connection in an easy way? You don`t have to smash the keyboard or move the mouse and stuff... Install haveged, a simple entropy deamon. apt-get install haveged then type in -w with your bits: haveged -w 4096 Now you can re-start your PGP-key entropy gatherer in order to finish quickly, right after it's done, you might consider removing haveged as i did. apt-get remove haveged Easy ...

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