Get Windows 10 Updates until 2032
Intro For the better part of the year, tech media outlets have been telling us (more like screaming at us) that we need to immediately buy a glorious "AI PC",…
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…
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No CommentsAllowing users to control third party services via Group Policy
Preamble So you have an Active Directory domain and you’ve installed certain services on certain computers. Now you want to allow certain non-admin users to control these services, but for…
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No CommentsInstalling, 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…
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No CommentsMissing 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…
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No CommentsFixing 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…
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No CommentsWindows 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…
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No CommentsLossless 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…
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