Sep 7, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Create a Bootable OS X Yosemite USB Installation Disk

Ever wondered how to create a bootable USB for installing OSX 10.10.5 (Yosemite)? Well I did and here is how it is done and it is not all that hard. First part is to go to the App STore and download OS X Yosemite. This will take awhile to complete as it is a 5.27 GB download. While that is downloading you can get your 8 GB or higher USB key inserted and ready. Once the download has completed the... read more

Sep 6, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Install LibreOffice 5 on Fedora 21

So the latest LibreOffice is out and you want to know how to get it installed on Fedora 21 and it is not available from RedHat. No problem! In this post we will cover how to get and install LibreOffice 5 on Fedora 21. First we need to download the latest RPM tarball from LibreOffice testing. I am also giving the link to stable Install is the same. Open a terminal and use wget to download it.  Note: the... read more

Sep 2, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Installing and Configuring ClamWin and Clam Sentinel on Windows Server 2008 and 2012

Recently put in some replacement servers and ran into the issue of Antivirus protection for the server. Usually this is a paid service for servers. In this case that was not an option and thus the search for a free or low cost solution. ClamWin is a free AntiVirus tool that will run on Windows Server. In this post we will discuss installing and configuring exclusions and scans on Windows Server 2008 R2... read more

Aug 31, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Removing Ubuntu and Installing Windows 10 on Dell Inspiron 15 3551

Found a great deal on a Dell Inspiron 15 3551 and forgot to look at the OS installed on it. After turning on and seeing and Ubuntu sticker on it I knew. For me not an issue, but for the customer this was purchased for this was an issue, as they wanted Windows 10. No problem we’ll just remove Ubuntu and install Windows which generally is not an issue. Well I should have not said a word as there was a... read more

Aug 30, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Creating Cisco MDS 9700 Switch Configuration Backup Scheduled Job

Scenario Recently was tasked with creating a scheduled job to backup  the running-config on our Cisco MDS9710 switch and TFTP it to another server. It was a great task to learn a bit about the scheduling piece in the switch and what command can be run. Create the Job First is to get the switch on config mode mds-sw1# config Next create a job called backup-cfg mds-sw1(config)# scheduler job name backup-cfg... read more