So numerous editions of Acronis purport to support imaging a drive formatted in ext4, but, often when you attempt to image such a partition you receive a message that “Some partitions contain errors and can only be imaged sector by sector…..” etc. I ran into this, recently, using Acronis 2018 to image a partition formatted …
Kodi can be installed from official repos on Ubuntu-based PopOS 18.04, but, with a couple of minor problems. First, the program often hangs (in my experience) when exiting the program. Second, when the program opens it is – without some tweaking – always full screen. In other words, there is no multi-tasking when Kodi is …
This page = Not Ready for Prime Time This is a set of notes I made to myself a few years ago when I simply wanted to see how IIS (and, ultimately, Exchange) worked, or, did not work. Prior to this experiment I’d always used Linux as a server. When I wrote this page I …
To Get Started Add role – Active Directory Lightweight Services Add feature – Windows Process Activation Service Add feature – PowerShell Enable TCP Port SharingWhen you install Windows Server 2008, the default setup disables a service that is needed by Exchange. You will need to enable this service. At the Server Manager screen – expand …
No matter how well you take care of your computer, sometimes, it will just crash and you often have to pull off the plug to restart the computer. When such crashes happen, there is a chance that your filesystem will get corrupted or damage. It is advisable to do a filesystem check regularly to make …
Here are two, free software programs for creating bootable USB sticks on Windows. I can’t even recall their names….. DOWNLOAD
Migraines Migraines, which result from changes in brain blood flow, can produce severe headaches as well as disturbing visual experiences. They affect about ten percent of the general population. There are several different kinds of migraines, two of which can produce colour vision deficiencies or distortions: migraine headache with visual prodrome and ophthalmic migraine. In …
It seems that even wood isn’t green or renewable enough anymore. The EPA has recently banned the production and sale of 80 percent of America’s current wood-burning stoves, the oldest heating method known to mankind and mainstay of rural homes and many of our nation’s poorest residents. The agency’s stringent one-size-fits-all rules apply equally to …
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that 7zip is available for Centos and other Linux distributions. And it works just as it does on Windows. On Redhat-style distros you can get 7zip for Linux with the following: yum -y install p7zip It seems to me that I had to link /usr/bin/7za to /usr/local/bin7za (ln -s …
