Photoshop is a very expensive piece of software and there are times in which you would want to check the content of the PSD file as a normal user. Designers of course have access to Photoshop and the PSD file format is used just like you would use DOCX for Word to exchange information natively
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Recently there was an exploit discovered in the RDP protocol implementation of Microsoft. Because RubyRDP uses this for connecting to servers it is important to know this. In a new update with version 3.8.0.0 an option is implemented to help you with this bug as it is still not and will likely not be patched
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Before starting this post it is of course recommended to create and have backups of the complete server or SQL server in other means that this. But if you for example want an extra file level based backup that could be version controlled then this could be a solution for you. I wrote the script
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UPDATE 2019-12-12: Included a fix for possible issues with SSL connections and the script getting the wrong url. Tested with newest version at the time of updating. With the new version 18.05 released. I was met with a challenge to update allot of clients and my own computer in a way because of a security
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So for a project that I am working on within the company I needed a solution that would allow a Raspberry Pi to automatically play a given video. I had issues with earlier versions and other hardware mainly Windows to get this to work very stable. Now I am a Windows man and using Linux
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So this post is about the hobby project I was referring to in the previous post. It is just an teaser for now but here goes. I am working on a replacement for the Windows Explorer. In my day to day work I come across the Windows Explorer a lot and I mean a lot
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While setting up your Raspberry is great and all and having multiple settings defined maybe by the software developer some custom code. You name it and the Raspberry can handle and do it. Now from a system administrators it can very hard to manage these in a good way think about security for example. But
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I am personally in love with Slack. It is a great communication tool for a company or project or whatever you want it to be used for. And as a sysadmin using Slack as your notification channel for your various scripts that run is great instead of the good old email. You can use the
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Now as a sysadmin you should have the big browsers on your computer. Why? Because it helps understanding how they work and how you can support your users if needed. So switching ‘main’ browsers is a thing that at least I do regularly. It is not only good to know and understand it for your
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