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Dissecting and removing the SHV5 rootkit

By Kent December 21, 2009 Featured, How To's, Technology, Tips & Tricks 9 Comments
Yesterday I noticed some odd behavior on one of the Linux servers that I maintain. For one thing, every time I would run ‘top’ or ‘ps’, I would see the following message Unknown Hz value! (75) Assume 100 I decided to...
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How to backup your MySQL databases to separate files

By Kent September 1, 2009 How To's, Technology, Tips & Tricks 0 Comments
I wanted to dump all my MySQL databases using the mysqldump utility, but I wanted each database to be in a separate file. I couldn’t find a solution online, so I wrote my own script. Here it is: #!/bin/sh USERNAME=admin PASSWORD=topsecret...
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Remove Personal Antivirus in 3 easy steps

By Kent August 18, 2009 How To's, Technology, Tips & Tricks 0 Comments
What is Personal Antivirus? Personal Antivirus sounds like a wonderful program that might be good to have, right? Actually, it’s just one of an increasingly common type of malware called a rogue anti-virus or rogue anti-spyware program. It appears to be...
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Blackberry purgatory

By Kent August 4, 2009 Featured, How To's, Technology, Tips & Tricks 11 Comments
Blackberries. You gotta love em. They’re great when they work but sometimes it’s a challenge to get them setup properly. I must have taken at least three phone calls on Friday from clients who needed help getting their Blackberries setup with...
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Control Panel won’t open?…Read this.

By Kent June 22, 2009 Tips & Tricks 1 Comment
Here’s a tip. Occasionally you may find that the Windows Control Panel will not open, or it may open and then close immediatly. Usually, the solution is simple. Windows stores the control panel icons as individual files with a .cpl file...
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How to synchronize your computer’s clock with a time server

By Kent June 19, 2009 How To's 0 Comments
Many things in your computer depend on having the correct date & time. Fortunately, there are network time servers all over the Internet that you can use to keep your computer's clock in perfect sync. The trick is knowing which time...
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Citrix XenApp Client Install Error – Invalid Drive

By Kent June 16, 2009 Tips & Tricks 1 Comment
Today I went out to a job to fix a problem with installing the Citrix XenApp Web Plugin. The user had downloaded the msi file from Citrix but shortly after starting the installation an following error appeared: Installation Error – Invalid...
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Synchronize files between multiple computers without breaking a sweat

By Kent June 15, 2009 Technology 0 Comments
If you have more than one computer that you use on a regular basis, it seems like the file you need is always on the other computer. Sure, you can use a flash drive but if that’s still too much work,...
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Free Online Backup…with a buddy.

By Kent June 15, 2009 Technology 1 Comment
One of the questions I get asked the most is “How do I backup my PC?” Of couse, there’s a million ways to backup data but few are easy, reliable, or cheap. This might be the answer to all three of...
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Virtualization is coming to a desktop near you

By Kent June 15, 2009 Technology 0 Comments
Everybody’s heard about server virtualization and what it can do to make your server room easier to manage. Now desktop virtualization is poised to become the next holy grail. Check out this video of Citrix’s new Xen Based Client Hypervisor. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msyvpFqFl0I&feature=related[/youtube]...
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