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Windows Share Access: Error – The Computer You Are Signing Into Is Protected By An Authentication Firewall

19.10.2017

Tom Huerlimann

Problem Today a customer contacted me, he told me the tries to map a network drive by using a ‘net use’ command. Unforantelty the command thows an error message as […]

CentOS 7: yum update throws libgpod error

17.10.2017

Tom Huerlimann

If you try to update your current centos-release-7-3.1611.el7.centos.x86_6 to CentOS 7.4 you’ll may see following error message in case you have libgpod installed from EPEL repo. –> Running transaction check […]

How to permanently disable Windows Defender on Windows 10

01.09.2017

Tom Huerlimann

If you’re looking for a permanent solution to disable Windows Defender, in this guide we show you how to turn it off using Group Policy and the Registry. Windows Defender […]

From today on, your e-mails can be stored by the intelligence service

01.09.2017

Tom Huerlimann

Swiss citizen voted on 25.09.2016 to give the Swiss intelligence service more opportunities to observe individuals on many levels. Today, the new law about the possibilities of the Swiss intelligence service comes […]

The top 20 Swiss technology blogs

31.08.2017

Tom Huerlimann

We are happy to announce that sparpedia.ch has awarded our Blog in the category ‘top 20 Swiss technology blogs’ for 2017 – thank you for the recognition. Sure, everybody knows the […]

How to enable administrative shares on Windows 10

30.08.2017

Tom Huerlimann

In some cases there is a need to enable the Admin Shares of local hard disks, commonly for administrative purposes. The Admin shares are the default shares (aka Administrative shares) […]

How to enable SNMP on a VMware ESXi hypervisor & vCenter appliance

17.08.2017

Tom Huerlimann

SNMP can be fully configured on an ESXi hypervisor through the ESX CLI. The commands vary between different versions of ESXi. How to enable SNMP on ESXi 5.0 You will […]

How to create a 1GB, 100MB, 10MB file for testing

23.06.2017

Tom Huerlimann

On Linux dd is the command from Linux that i use. To create 1 GB file go with dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=1024000 to create 100 MB try dd if=/dev/zero […]

How to install SmokePing on CentOS 7

21.06.2017

Tom Huerlimann

This tutorial explains how to install Tobias Oetiker’s Smokeping into /opt/smokeping on a CentOS 7 box. Features of Smokeping: – Best of breed latency visualisation. – Interactive graph explorer. – […]

How do I change a domain controller’s IP address?

01.06.2017

Tom Huerlimann

As a critical part of your IT infrastructure, domain controllers (DC) should be assigned a static IP address so that they can be reliably discovered across the network. Sometimes it’s […]