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Easy to setup free open source backup server
The other day I was looking for a new backup solution. I wanted one that I could use for my day job potentially, and also perhaps as a side business for local businesses around me. You see, I found...
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How to explain #Bitcoin to your grandparents (Infographic)
Interestingly, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a really foreign concept to many older folks. Millennials seem to just get it, probably because it was a technology created early in their lifetime...
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Which Is More Successful? Google or Apple?
In this episode of the Infragraphics Show, they try to figure out who is more successful between Google and Apple? They look at which one has the most potential to be the first trillion dollar company,...
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How to get more Facebook page likes for free
You wouldn't be able to tell by looking at the Bauer-Power Facebook page that I actually have quite a big following. That's because the Bauer-Power the Tech Blog gets most of its traffic from Google,...
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Where can you download older versions of XenServer?
Ever since Citrix announced the good features they were pulling from the free edition of XenServer starting in version 7.3, many users of the free XenServer were extremely pissed! For those of you who...
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How to fix "The VDI is not available" error in XenServer
I had an epic shit storm of an issue the other night with one of my XenServer clusters at my day job. I won't get into too many boring details, but long story short is that two out of my five...
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VMs Missing in XenCenter When One or More XenServers Are Unavailable
The other night was one of those nights from hell that inevitably come up once in a while. This occasion was in one of my day job's lower tier environments where we run everything in a XenServer...
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Why does Google Chrome think I'm in India?
I've noticed a weird issue in Google Chrome lately, and that is whenever I type a search term in the address bar, the results come from google.co.in. If you didn't know, that is the URL for Google in...
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#Bitcoin is "Crashing" Again... Why We're Not Worried
People seem to be worried again that bitcoin has started dropping. But we are not worried, and neither should you be. Alessio Rastani explains why. Visit www.bauer-power.net for the full story!
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Free Open Source Fork of Citrix XenServer?
The other day I wrote about where you can download older versions of Citrix XenServer since they removed a lot of features from their free version in 7.3, and then removed access to older version to...
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Modern free alternative to Cliffs Notes
When I was in high school and junior high (Yes, I went to junior high and not a middle school) like just about every kid, I had to read lots of classic novels for language arts class. Well, let's be...
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How To Resize a Storage Repository (SR) in XenServer
The other weekend I got a disk space alert from my backup server in my Arizona data center. This happens occasionally. Since this is a VM, I usually just increase the virtual disk, then extend the...
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What is Redis? | Why and When to use Redis?
The other day my development team's Solutions Architect came to me and asked me to deploy Ubuntu based Redis servers in our QA environment so that the developers could test using Redis for session...
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Infographic - 67 Insane Facts About #Bitcoin
Since December 2017's epic high of $20,000 per bitcoin, the cryptocurrency has been in and out of the toilet as far as pricing goes. If you watch the news, this may very well be the only fact you know...
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Free Utility To Analyze Blue Screens of Death (BSOD) in Windows
For some reason over the last month or so, my company has been experiencing a random string of Blue Screens of Death (BSODs). It turned out to be caused by a certain Microsoft update for Windows 10,...
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OpenVAS/Greenbone Empty Reports in Ubuntu
The other day I stood up an OpenVAS server so I could run internal vulnerability testing in my environment. If you haven't heard of OpenVAS, here is a description from their page:OpenVAS is a framework...
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Corrupt OpenVAS PDF's in Ubuntu?
Yesterday I wrote about how I recently setup an OpenVAS/Greenbone server on Ubuntu, and how the guide I referenced for the install missed a few steps. Well, I found another one! After getting reports...
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Science with my son: Mentos and Soda Experiment
A few weekends ago my son and I decided to do the good ol' Mentos and Soda experiment for his weekly YouTube show, "The Adventures of Brizzle Fo' Shizzle"! It was a lot of fun, and we obviously made a...
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Office365: Your machine isn't set up for Information Rights Management (IRM)
The other day one of the executives at my day job sent out his monthly internal report via email. We have a rights protected message feature enabled when anyone puts a certain keyword in the subject...
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How to turn off Focused Inbox in Outlook
My company uses Office365, and I absolutely love it. I've managed in-house Exchange servers in my previous jobs, and having done that and having used Office365, I don't know if I could ever go back....
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