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Sir Nick Clegg says Facebook found no "significant attempt" by outside forces to sway the [...]
The gamer, who has a strong following on YouTube, has now not been seen for five days. [...]
A lawyer, who won his case over a three-week blackout, is to return to court on behalf of other Suda [...]
The mobile network sent 2.5 million messages to customers about its app and handset upgrades. [...]
Lax security at a Nasa lab let a hacker lurk on the agency's network for almost a year, says re [...]
Fake messages could cause widespread panic, the researchers who uncovered the flaws say. [...]
Iran gamers have reportedly received messages saying they can't play the game because of the US [...]
The winner of Elon Musk's global learning award warns that children's data should be prote [...]
The supermarket uses image recognition tech at checkouts to detect when items have not been scanned. [...]
The messaging app has investors piling in on hopes it can replace email for workplace communication. [...]
A Norwegian aluminium producer is recovering after hackers took thousands of computers offline and d [...]
BBC Click's Paul Carter looks at some of the week's best technology stories. [...]
Pensioner Ted Waight gives his verdict on an immersive virtual reality exhibit which takes viewers i [...]
The Israeli firm Eviation unveils a plane which can travel over 600 miles on battery power alone. [...]
Heathrow's luggage system handles 180,000 items per day. Tom Burridge takes a look inside. [...]
Air travel accounts for 2%-3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Are electric engines an answer? [...]
The company's boss Adam Mosseri tells Radio 1 Newsbeat he wants Instagram to be "less pres [...]
In a "David and Goliath" battle of the skies, the small airline used tech to punch above i [...]
How do you build unmanned vehicles that can withstand extreme temperatures, pressures and terrains? [...]
It might be inefficient but we still use email, despite the emergence of rival systems. [...]
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Escape special characters inside folder/file name variable
array=(`find /path/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -print | sed -e ‘s;[^/]*/;;g’ | sed ‘s/&/\\&/’`) ( sed ‘s/&/\\&/’ replaces & with \& in the folder/file name )
Exchange – remove address from all groups and hide it from GAL
Filename: script.ps1 $email = (read-host “email”) $GG = Get-DistributionGroup $RG = $GG | where {(Get-DistributionGroupMember $_ | foreach {$_.PrimarySmtpAddress}) -contains “$email”} foreach( $dg in $RG ){ Remove-DistributionGroupMember $dg -Member $email } get-mailbox -Identity $email | Set-Mailbox -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
Expanding a LVM root partition to fill remaining drive space
Expanding a LVM root partition to fill remaining drive space 09 Dec 2009 When I deploy new servers through VMWare ESX, I usually copy an existing base that I have already setup. I keep the base image VMDK size small … Continue reading
Convert URL text to clickable hyperlink in Excel
1. Select the range of url text that you want to convert to clickable hyperlinks. 2. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window. 3. Click Insert > Module, and paste the … Continue reading
Resize KVM guest disk space then resize PV LV
Increase KVM virtual machine guest’s disk space from the command line if you initially set insufficient amount of disk space: Shutdown the VM Move the current image mv mykvm.img mykvm.img.bak Create a new image qemu-img create -f raw addon.raw 30G … Continue reading
Linux Emergency Reboot / Shutdown
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger The first line is for enabling SysRq, and the second one is for rebooting. More info HERE. echo 0 > /proc/sysrq-trigger if you need to shutdown instead of rebooting
Force CentOS 6 to Re-Detect Network Devices
Edit the interface that “doesn’t seem to be present”: vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and remove the HWADDR line. Remove the old 70-persistnet-net.rules file: rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Removing this file will force udev to probe for network interfaces at boot and create a new … Continue reading
Exchange – Add mailbox permissions to Domain Admins
Add-MailboxPermission -Identity alice.cooper -User “Domain Admins” -AccessRights Fullaccess -InheritanceType all
Exchange – Check Email forwarding using Powershell
Get-Mailbox -Filter {ForwardingAddress -ne $null} | ft Name,ForwardingAddress,DeliverToMailboxAndForward -Autosize | Export-CSV e:\Email_forwarding_output.csv
Reset password in Active Directory using PowerShell
You must have the cmdlets ( part of the ActiveDirectory module for PowerShell v2 ) For Windows 7, you need to install the latest RSAT (Remote Server Admin Tools) and then add the Windows Feature for the PowerShell AD … Continue reading