Jan 3, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Keeping Your Kindle HD Clean of Malware

As with PC and other devices there is malicious software and others trying to mess up your device. Luckily there are several free tools ou there to keep your device running smoothly. The Kindle HD is not exempt from the malicious apps out there so here are a few apps that you will want to install from the Amazon App store. Here are two of my favorites. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware If there is one tool I tend... read more

Jan 1, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Google Chrome on Kindle HD

Recently I began to start using my Kindle HD alot more and was surprised to only see Silk as the available browser. Being an Admin this is not an option as there are many other browsers out there and especially for Android devices. With the Kindle you are limited to what is in the Amazon App store which is good but Chrome and Firefox are not in the store. So to rectify this you must do the following. Go... read more

Nov 21, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Finding WWN’s on Windows Server 2012 Using PowerShell

With a single command you can retrieve WWN’s on Windows Server 2012 R2 using PowerShell. Open the PowerShell command and type: Get-WmiObject -class MSFC_FCAdapterHBAAttributes -namespace “root\WMI” | ForEach-Object {(($_.NodeWWN) | ForEach-Object {“{0:x}” -f $_}) -join “:”} And that is all there is to it. Simple and fast using PowerShell. Update: I have been been... read more

Nov 19, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Windows Server 2012 R2 SNMP Tools install

Recently ran into an issue on Windows Server 2012 R2 systems and came across some systems that had SNMP installed but the Security, Agent, and Traps tabs were missing.  This is due to the facet that Microsoft has deprecated SNMP in Server 2012. (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831568.aspx) NOTE: This is in addition to the SNMP Services feature. If you haven’t already installed the SNMP... read more

Nov 11, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Microsoft SQL drivers and unixODBC 2.3.0 on RHEL 6 64 bit

How To Install Microsoft SQL drivers and unixODBC 2.3.0 on RHEL 6 64 bit Microsoft’s SQL drivers can not use the 2.2.14 unixODBC installed with RedHat 6. It requires 2.3.0 which requires compiling and installing from source. First download the latest unixODBC from http://www.unixodbc.org/ . Put tarball in /tmp and extract. Extract the tar ball # tar xvzf unixODBC-2.3.0.tar.gz Change to the unixODBC-2.3.0... read more