CentOS 6 Has No Network Connectivity ?

This is for those of you who are new to CentOS. By default CentOS 6 will not configure network interfaces on a new installation which means the host will have no network connectivity, we can correct this inconvenience with little effort. Of course this means the user(you) is left with the decision to configure the [...]

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Linux: CentOS 6.0 Released

CentOS 6.0 is out of the oven and ready for download. If you are planning on dowloading 6.0 then I recommend making use of the Torrent files, you will get better download speeds and integrity on such huge file. I've linked to the Torrent files for each architecture in case you...
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Disable VMware Workstation / Player from automatically connecting new usb devices

Meant for convenience, but annoying after a while, VMware enables by default the option to "Automatically connect new USB devices" on all virtual machines this means the VM will grab the USB device away from the Host OS and connect it to the running virtual machine. While convenient, just because...
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Acronis Drive Cleanser – Securely Erase Hard Drives

There are certain tools that every IT Pro should have in its arsenal and surprisingly sometimes insted of recovering data we may be required to destroy data. The reason is that you wouldn't want some unintended party to get hold of a drive with your data on it. If you...
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Net Use On Windows PE

Lately, I've been working on Windows PE images, in one occasion I came across a persistent problem where I could not connect to a remote share on a Windows Server 2003 with the net use command no matter what I did. I knew the Server was not the problem because...
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