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How To Enable Named Pipes and TCP/IP for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SQLExpress

During a recent installation of HP Insight Manager 7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 server the prerequisites failed complaining about you must enable named pipes and TCP/IP for the existing database service...
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How To Start and Stop Services Using PowerShell Remotely

Admit it, you’re an admin that likes to do everything possible from the desk or laptop and if possible from a command line because automation is our friend. With the addition of PowerShell this is...
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How To Install Skype on Fedora 18 x64

Skype is a widely used application and running Skype is easy to do on Fedora 18 x64, so how do we install it? First we need to install the 32 bit libraries. $ sudo yum -y install libXv.i686...
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How To Install LibreOffice 4.0 on Fedora 18

Today is the big day, LibreOffice 4.0 has been released and there many new features. We are going to show how to install LibreOffice 4.0 on Fedora 18. Ever since the fork I have been using LibreOffice...
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How To Remove Sleep Option from the Vista Shutdown Menu

Recently ran into an issue with a Windows Vista desktop system that the client kept putting the system to sleep with the desktop and was causing issues. If this was a laptop I wouldn’t want to...
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