We let our Documents sync to the cloud, download themselves on all of our PCs, and trust that no single person besides ourselves can ever see those files, unless otherwise intended. This may be true that “only you” can see what’s in your Dropbox and other cloud storage, but in Read more…
When I bought my Synology DS416play, I was concerned about the included 1GB of RAM. I eventually decided that it probably didn’t matter that much how much RAM it had When I saw my RAM filling up for no reason, my concerns grew again. I decided I’d upgrade the RAM with Read more…
Performance of Synology devices out of the box can only be monitored in real-time. This is fine, but when you start installing packages, transferring data, and the NAS starts doing its thing — well you might be left wondering at times “what’s going on?”. You can see up to fifteen Read more…
I don’t know about you, but my impression of Amazon Cloud Drive has always been somewhat negative due to the fact that you couldn’t sync the files with your PC after you uploaded them. I mean, this completely defeated the purpose of having that type of storage for a lot Read more…
I was using acd_cli, mounted to my file system last night, and picked up today to finish up. I navigated to the directory I mount ACD in and listed the contents. root@vultr:/var/cloud# ls -alF ls: cannot open directory ‘.’: Bad address Only to see an error that I haven’t seen Read more…
I find myself stuck in situations where I can’t really leave or close my shell session, but I have to go somewhere else, disconnect my internet, or otherwise lose shell access for some reason or another and unable to get back where I left off. Things like this happen sometimes, Read more…
I filled up my 15GB of space on Google Photos. I always thought the photos were kind of stuck in there. I knew I could download them, but I didn’t want to do it through their web interface. That would be very cumbersome as I have many photos. I discovered Read more…
I just had to expand the size of one of our CSV’s without much notice. I wasn’t prepared for this, but I knew two things: The iSCSI LUN had to grow The Virtual Disk inside Windows also had to grow. Our Hyper-V cluster contains three virtual disks: Volume1, Quorum Witness, Read more…
The computer lab is coming together, but every time a student logs in, they are forced through the first-run wizard. I was asked to disable this, and here’s how: Download and Import ADMX files First, if you have not already, you will need to obtain and import the Microsoft Office Read more…
I was given a list of 200 or so webpages so I could create shortcuts. Not just any old shortcut, but they needed to contain an argument to tell the browser to open a URL in full-screen kiosk mode. This is so that the user cannot immediately exit the page; beneficial for Read more…