Aug 29, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Ardour 4 on Fedora 24

Introduction Ardour is an open source DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). It is available on almost every Linux Distribution. In this post we will cover how to install Ardour 4 on a Fedora 23/24 system. Installation Login to your system and open a terminal session. Type the following command. $ sudo dnf install ardour4 Once installation is completed there are a few configurations to make. First we need to... read more

Aug 23, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Microsoft Releases PowerShell for Linux and OSX

Alright, I hear the comments now from the Linux guys, me included. PowerShell on Linux? Well yes, Microsoft has released PowerShell for Linux and OS X. It is available here https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell. Feeling a bit adventurous? Go ahead and download the Alpha and start playing. Here are the Installation instructions as per Microsoft. Currently supports Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, CentOS 7,... read more

Aug 19, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Network performance with VMXNET3 on Windows Server 2012 R2

Introduction In this post we will cover an updated version for addressing VMXNET3 performance issues on Windows Server 2012 R2. As with an earlier post we addressed Windows Server 2008 R2 but, with 2012 R2 more features were added and old settings are not all applicable. What To Change According to VMWare you may experience issues similar to: Poor performance Packet loss Network latency Slow data transfer... read more

Aug 13, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Install BlueGriffon 2.x on Fedora 24

Introduction In  this post we will cover how to install BlueGriffon on Fedora 24. BlueGriffon is a wysiwyg editor for Web Development. It runs on MAC OSX , Windows and Linux. In earlier life BlueGriffon was Nvu and then KompoZer and is based on the Firefox Gecko engine. Installation First thing is to download the tarball from here. In this case we are installing on bit Fedora 24 so select Ubuntu  64 bit.... read more

Aug 5, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Slipstream SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3

Introduction You have been tasked to install SQL Server 2008 R2 on a server and you need to have the latest Service Pack as well, but want to accomplish it in one installation. Well no fear slipstream to the rescue. In this post we will cover how to slipstream SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 to a fresh SQL Server 2008 R2 installation. What You Need SQL Server 2008 R2 installation media SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3... read more