Jan 31, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Read an IOMEGA ZIP 100 Drive on Ubuntu Linux 12.04

As with most things computer there are times when old media formats appear and a need to retrieve the data. One such occurrence happened recently when several ZIP  disks arrived. The IOMEGA ZIP  drives were parallel port connected SCSI drives that were popular back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. They were great for backups and had more capacity that floppy disks. They are before USB attached... read more

Jan 26, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Fix Parameter is Incorrect Error Message When Adding Disk to Windows Cluster

Introduction So there you are adding a new drive to a folder on a mounted drive on a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 Clustered SQL server and during the format and assigning of the disk to the folder of the mount drive a big error pops up stating Parameter is Incorrect. And you are now dead in the water, or at least you think. We’ll all is not lost, there is a solution! You will encounter... read more

Jan 13, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Run Group Policy Editor on a Remote Windows Server

Introduction As a Windows Administrator we are always trying to minimize our effort to get our work done. Remote connectivity is always a great tool and save us valuable time when maintaining large amounts of servers. In this post we will cover the task of editing the Local group policy on a remote server. How To Do It Really it is pretty simple, the main thing to remember is the servers need to be on the... read more

Jan 8, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Move Your Thunderbird Profile to a New System

Introduction So you have a new system and on the old system you have Mozilla Thunderbird as your email. Recently this was my situation. I just built a new Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS system and wanted to migrate from my aging Macbook, amazingly it is very simple to do. Process First step is to shutdown Thunderbird on the old system and copy the profile folder. To a USB stick or a shared location. On Mac OSX... read more

Jan 1, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Cinelerra-CV Video Editor in Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction Cinelerra is a free video editing software package, used for Linux operating system. It is produced by Heroine Virtual, which allow the user to perform advanced compositing operations. Cinelerra is a full featured video editing system for Linux which has been around for quite awhile. In this post we will be installing Cinelerra-CV on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using the cinelerra-cv ppa. Installing... read more