Showing My Geek

Free Partition Recovery Tool

ogwatermelon — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:12:28 +0000

Recently I was adding a second drive to my laptop and I was extending the partition on the old drive to use all the space. During the extending it error ed and I lost the partition. So I found some tools and tried to recover some of the files. Well after running the supposedly free [...]

DHCP MAC filtering on Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R1

ogwatermelon — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:29:59 +0000

Recently I needed to setup MAC filtering on our DHCP server and being familiar with Windows Server 2008 R2 I thought it was a standard feature. However I couldn’t be more wrong. It turned out none of the previous server versions had this feature. So after a little searching I found an addon from Microsoft [...]

Tweaks to make Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the perfect Linux desktop

ogwatermelon — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:35:06 +0000

I recently install Ubuntu 12.04 on a older system to try it out. I will say that I was truly impressed with the functionality of this distro. First lets start with the specs of the machine I used. It was an Acer 3850 with a single core 1.86 GHz processor , 3 gigs of 666 [...]

Sending Messages to Remote Workstations with a Script

ogwatermelon — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:20:26 +0000

Recently we had been working on scripting to make our live a little easier at work. One of the projects was the ability to send messages to users that are in other buildings or everyone. So after a few minutes of playing I got it to work and I thought I would share it with [...]

Custom Linux on ARM Based Computers

ogwatermelon — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:10:46 +0000

Recently I had come across a some Zipit instant messaging devices that were on clearance for $10. So I bought two thinking they would be pretty cool for my children to play with. After doing some research I found that these devices were used by Linux enthusiasts to build small Linux computers. [...]

Building a Virtual Server

ogwatermelon — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:35:48 +0000

Sorry I have not written in a while but recently I built a new server for my Virtual Machines. I run all my machines in virtuals and I have for around 5 years. So I replaced a Core 2 Quad with 8 Gig of memory with something a newer. Plus with DDR3 I [...]

Waterfox, 64 bit Off Shoot of Firefox

ogwatermelon — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:27:09 +0000

Recently I was introduced to Waterfox just over a week ago and it is a fast browser. I had not used a 64 bit browser because of compatibility issues. However this browser didn’t seen to have any problems with the websites I went too. Now I didn’t go to that many [...]

Build a Window 7 PE Boot disk with WinBuilder

ogwatermelon — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:17:07 +0000

We use a PE disk to boot the fist machine at a remote site to set up a Ghost server from a NAS. As we got newer machines the XP based BartPE disk was not working as well as we wanted. So I sat out to build a Windows 7 boot disk that would make [...]

SOPA and PIPA Good or Bad and things you should know.

ogwatermelon — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:28:48 +0000

I had not been tracking all of the ins and outs of the bills in the Congress. However after reading articles that tale a great deal about these two bills, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA ( Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act). These two bills could [...]

Happy New Year!!

ogwatermelon — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:32:30 +0000

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year. Relax and sleep off the hang overs.