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The Outspoken Wookie: 2014-11
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Monday, November 10, 2014. Azure Needs To Be Introduced To 2012. I'd *REALLY* like to know how, if Microsoft is pumping so much time and energy into Azure, it cannot handle the VHDX format, let alone Generation 2 Virtual Machines from Hyper-V 2012? I mean, we're now in 2014 and have the Windows Server 10 Technical Preview available to us and Microsoft still can't handle .VHDX files in their Azure virtual machines! Posted by Hilton Travis. Wednesday, November 05, 2014. Medical Woo-Woo Shits Me. Was select...
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The Outspoken Wookie: Microsoft's Broken Store Upgrade to 8.1
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Thursday, September 11, 2014. Microsoft's Broken Store Upgrade to 8.1. After spending well over 8 hours trying to work through this issue, including a reasonable amount of Google searching, it seems to me that Microsoft has royally fucked up the Microsoft Store Windows 8.1 Upgrade for Windows 8.0 users. And now, I'll explain it in a little more depth. If you try and install via Windows Update, you'll be presented with the following error message:. 8226;0x800F081F: The changes could not be completed.
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The Outspoken Wookie: 2014-12
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Sunday, December 07, 2014. Does A 6Gbps SATA Interface Actually Matter. As we've been told all our lives, bigger is better. But as we also know, what we've always been told isn't necessarily right any more (and often wasn't ever right). So, with that in mind, I present the 6Gbps SATA Interface! Right, now that we know the actual maximum data throughput of a bunch of different SATA standards, what we need to do is to look for drives that we can attach to these SATA interfaces and see how fast they can go ...
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The Outspoken Wookie: 2014-10
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Tuesday, October 07, 2014. Windows 8.x Wireless Networking Issues. One of the more useful features of Windows 7 that has been completely removed from Windows 8.x for no apparently decent reason is the "Manage Wireless Networks" Control Panel applet. It provided you with a wealth of knowledge and gave you the ability to, as its name suggests, manage wireless networks. So, with the demise of this useful feature, along came the Kerkia group with their WinFi. 8195;netsh wlan show profile. Netsh wlan export p...
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The Outspoken Wookie: Embedded "Security" with IPMI and UPnP
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Embedded "Security" with IPMI and UPnP. First, let me say that I've been outspoken about UPnP on gateway devices since UPnP was first released - it is simply a Bad Idea. Recently released information on an IPMI vulnerability involving UPnP on server motherboards has been published by Cari.net here. Not good. Not good at all. Posted by Hilton Travis. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Hilton, from Quark IT. Was selected by Microsoft Australia to be...
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The Outspoken Wookie: Azure Needs To Be Introduced To 2012
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Monday, November 10, 2014. Azure Needs To Be Introduced To 2012. I'd *REALLY* like to know how, if Microsoft is pumping so much time and energy into Azure, it cannot handle the VHDX format, let alone Generation 2 Virtual Machines from Hyper-V 2012? I mean, we're now in 2014 and have the Windows Server 10 Technical Preview available to us and Microsoft still can't handle .VHDX files in their Azure virtual machines! Posted by Hilton Travis. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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The Outspoken Wookie: BEASTly POODLEs
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014. There have been a number of vulnerabilities detected in various security protocols over the past year or two including BEAST Attack, Heartbleed Bug and POODLE Attack. At least 2/3 of these have names that give some indication of their severity and the remaining 1/3 leaves you with a rather interesting visual image. But be ye not distracted by the names - they are all things that need to be addressed in various ways. OS-X 10.9 (Mavericks). On Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 and older.
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The Outspoken Wookie: Firewall with Hyper-V Synthetic NIC Support
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Firewall with Hyper-V Synthetic NIC Support. I've been looking for a while to try and find an Open Source firewall for use in a Hyper-V environment. There's a number out there that will install and work, however trying to find a product with support for the Hyper-V Synthetic NICs instead of just the slower Legacy NICs has been. well. tedious. I've looked at IPFire. IPFire includes the modules required to work properly in a Hyper-V environment, but those modules are not enabled b...
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The Outspoken Wookie: APNs
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. OK, so I'm sick and tired of visiting various sites to find the APNs for the carious 3G/4G providers our clients use at work and at home, so here's my own list. No business use - see 1.4.1.d here. Username and password required. Mainly personal use - see 1.1 here. New Optus 4G plans. Use if "internet" doesn't work. This is the Telstra 10. private NATted network. Code is "GPTCOMB3". This is their "iPhone" APN. Call and ask for the "GPDWLES3" code to be added to your account.
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The Outspoken Wookie: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Factory Mode
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Friday, July 18, 2014. Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Factory Mode. OK, after trying everything I could find on the 'Net (unsuccessfully, obviously) I decided to do one final search before buying a new handset and came across http:/ www.444android.com/showthread.php? Which is the only thing I found that worked - my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 no longer continually boots into factory mode, which means that it is no longer as useful as a 80.5 x 151.1 x 9.4 mm, 182.5g brick! Posted by Hilton Travis. Hilton, from Quark IT.