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Display your Android phone’s screen on a PC
After searching the play store I could only find applications to display your phone’s screen on a PC that required a rooted phone. Eventually I stumbled up on TeamViewer Quick Support which does not require a rooted Android phone. Below is a quick video of the application to show how it works and I also mention a few things you are able to do with it.
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How to install Great Little Radio Player in Linux Mint
In this video we show you how to install Great Little Radio Player in Linux Mint. Link to Great Little Radio Player’s website here. Link to the downloads section here.
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Virtual Box – This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae
Tried to install a new VM in Virtual box today and received an error stating: “This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:pae” In this video I show you how to enable PAE for the virtual machine. For more information on PAE click here. Remember to watch in 1080p
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Installing ssh on Ubuntu 14.04
This is a quick video clip to show you the steps to install ssh on Ubuntu 14.04 Remember to watch in 720p or 1080p
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Unable to mount a disk in Linux – The disk contains an unclean file system
This morning I logged into my Linux Mint installation and could not access any of the disks that I could access before. The disks are shared between my Windows 8 and Linux Mint operating systems since I’m dual booting. I received the below error: Error mounting /dev/sdc1 (lots of detailed text) The disk contains and unclean file system (0,0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. An explanation on how to solve this problem is detailed in the video below where I show you how to switch off the Windows 8 feature that is know to cause issues with Linux and Windows dual boot systems. Remember to watch in…
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How to install Kdenlive on Linux Mint
In this video I’ll show you how to install Kdenlive in Linux Mint. Kdenlive is thus far the best video editor that I have tried. Easy to use and even simpler to install in Linux Mint. Watch in 720p
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Internet Explorer is not opening any websites but other browsers work
I had a problem on Windows 8 where Internet Explorer could not open any websites anymore.. Chrome and Firefox could access and open websites though. After a long hard search and consulting with friends a solution was found. Follow the below steps to get Internet Explorer working again. Click on start and in the search bar type cmd. (if using Metro then start typing cmd from your search in the metro screen) Hit the enter key. In the command prompt type netsh winsock reset and press enter. Now type netsh advfirewall reset and press enter. Restart your computer. Now go to the upper right hand corner and click on the…
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Export all mailboxes from a Database to pst – Exchange 2010
I have been tasked to export all mailboxes on an Exchange 2010 environment to pst. The reason for this is to provide Mimecast with the mailbox data to ingest into the clients archive that is hosted within Mimecast. We enable journaling on Exchange but need to ingest all mail that was sent and received before journaling was switched on. Note that you need to have Exchange 2010 SP1 installed to run the below. The mailbox export request is processed by the CAS server role. The path to the folder that you export to needs to be an UNC path, pointing to shared local folders won’t work. Make sure you have…
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How to decommission a Windows 2012 Domain Controller and Active Directory
I’m currently busy testing a few things and copied my lab DC’s virtual disk to 2 other machines. I need to decommission Active Directory on these two machines and thought that I’d share the steps on here. First off the Domain Controller is decommissioned and then Active Directory is decommissioned. Note that the server is the only DC in my network which means I’m also showing the step to decommission the last DC in an AD environment.
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Installing Virtual Box Guest Additions in Zentyal
I stumbled across Zentyal which seemed to be quite an interesting Linux distribution. I say that as they claim to be able to replace Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS) and co-exist with Active Directory and Exchange. Have a look at their website for all the features. I wanted to install the guest additions after installing Zentyal in Oracle’s Virtual Box to run the virtual machine in full screen mode. This was not as straight forward as I though it might be. Below is a video tutorial that I created to show how to install the guest additions in Zentyal. (Watch in HD and full screen) Also note: the links below the…
