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Problem Ejecting SATA drives on Windows 8

The task’s simple: you plug in an AHCI-enabled SATA drive on-the-fly, you use it, and then you eject it. Right? Not so much. Windows can’t stop your ‘foobar’ device because…

noobient 2014-04-16No Comments

Installing, Migrating & Upgrading Redmine with LDAP on Ubuntu

Preamble Note for CentOS users: please refer to my more recent guide, Redmine on CentOS 7 This article will guide you through the installation, migration and upgrading of a Redmine…

noobient 2013-12-01No Comments

Missing Windows Server Backup after performing Windows Update

So you’re happily using Windows Server Backup (wbadmin.msc), and one day you’re unhappily finding out that the shortcut’s gone. Not only that, but the file’s missing, too. It’s not in…

noobient 2013-11-18No Comments

Fixing SYSVOL replication on Windows Server 2012 R2

Replication can get broken for various reasons. One vivid symptom is when you’re unable to run gpupdate because it complains about access errors. In this case, you can check the…

noobient 2013-11-11No Comments

Windows 8.1 Activation Surprises

Back in the day, you used to have a little balloon in the corner reminding you from time to time that you should activate Windows ASAP. But those times are…

noobient 2013-08-29No Comments

Lossless MP3 joining and Cuesheet generation

As I’ve already explained in audio transcoding basics, transcoding from lossy to lossy is evil and you should feel guilty for doing it. The same applies to re-encoding, i.e. taking…

noobient 2013-08-28No Comments