March, 2013
Create Apple ID without credit card
Click iTunes Store (on the left side of the iTunes window) and pick your country by clicking the appropriate country flag located in the bottom-right corner of the main iTunes Store page. Navigate to the App Store by clicking on App Store from the top navigation bar. Important: Before proceeding to the next step, you […]
Enterprise Backup Software
AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup solution that allows the IT administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native utilities and formats (e.g. dump and/or GNU tar) and can back up […]
How do I… Connect Windows Vista to a Macintosh network?
This article was originally published describing how to connect Windows XP systems to Macintosh networks. The article is also available as a download. See the related photo gallery for this article. So you’ve got an accountant needing to add a Windows Vista system to a Macintosh network. Or, maybe developers, engineers, or sales representatives have some Windows systems that […]
Find a computers serial number using wmic
wmic bios get serialnumber to retrieve the local computer serial number. wmic csproduct get name to retrieve the local computer model. wmic csproduct get/value to retrieve the local computer product number. wmic desktopmonitor list full to retrieve monitor detail
Computer equipment recycling/ cartridges
1) Remarkit recycling – Spark Hub Done with Spark Business Hub (Ted) and raises funds for Wellington Childrens Hospital. Call 0800 535 735 or info@hubwellington.co.nz. I donated stuff Sep 2014 from Leeds St. 2) Free Computer Recycling Service – IT Recycle We offer a mainly free recycling service for all IT related products (incl KB, mice, power cables), […]
VS1 Scheduled Tasks (Cron Job)
e.g wget http://www.ifa.org.nz/admin/notify.php -O /dev/null /dev/null From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In Unix-like operating systems, /dev/null or the null device is a special file that discards all data written to it (but reports that the write operation succeeded) and provides no data to any process that reads from it (yielding EOF immediately). In programmer jargon, especially Unix jargon, it may also be called the bit bucket or black hole.