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Hyper-V and the Cloneable Domain Controller

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In-Depth Hyper-V and the Cloneable Domain Controller Is the new feature an IT game changer or an unnecessary headache? By Rick Vanover 09/19/2014 Sounds funny, but believe it or not, it’s real. Since its release in Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V supports cloning of Domain Controller VMs. Cloning may seem an incredibly naughty task for a domain controller! In fact, I grew up with my Active Directory practice of preferring to address all situations through dcpromo. This includes removing a failed domain controller, moving roles around and transferring to new hardware or a new virtual machine. Windows Server 2012 has a new option that you may want to consider with Hyper-V … Or should you stick to how you’ve been doing Active Directory? Domain controller cloning in Windows …

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Hyper-V and the Cloneable Domain Controller

pfsense 2.2 enters beta – We found the top motherboard for it

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

After many months of development, pfsense 2.2-BETA is finally here. pfsense is an excellent router/ firewall distribution based off of FreeBSD. Personally, I use pfsense on a daily basis and have been using pfsense 2.2-ALPHA for many months now. The move from pfsense 2.1 to 2.2 may sound trivial, but it has absolutely huge implications for the distribution. Probably the biggest of which is that pfsense 2.2 is based off of FreeBSD 10 while 2.1 was based off of FreeBSD 8.3. The bottom line here is that there is an absolutely massive upgrade in driver support as well as other key features (e.g. mutli-threaded pf support.) One feature that has made me try pfsense 2.2-ALPHA for the past few months is that it supports Microsoft’s integration components for Hyper…

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pfsense 2.2 enters beta – We found the top motherboard for it

AOMEI Free PE Builder

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

AOMEI has just released another fantastic free utility for Windows operating system. AOMEI PE Builder is a handy tool to create bootable media based on Windows PE without having to install Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). The bootable media can then be used to manage hard drives, backup data in the event of system failure or fix Windows issues. Since PE builder is based on Windows PE, it includes the familiar taskbar, start menu and Windows explorer. The PE Builder has been packed with Partition Assistant Standard and AOMEI Backupper Standard software, meaning you can use the bootable CD/USB to manage your hard drive and backup your data without booting into Windows operating system. In other words, if your PC is not bootable, you can use …

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AOMEI Free PE Builder

Designing a Responsive Navigation Your Users Will Love

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In design The process of creating a website should always start with general ideas. These turn into wireframes or low-fidelity mockups to give the designer a sense of direction. It’s fairly straightforward, but the creative process requires a large visual library of existing layouts to understand which interfaces are usable and well-designed. Navigation is a huge part of web design and deserves a lot more coverage. Responsive Navigation has slightly changed this creative process over recent years. Now designers are much more focused on grids and fluidity. Accessible responsive layouts should be flexible and naturally update to any screen size. Nav menus can be tricky because shortening a collection of links will often require completely revamping the UI….

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Designing a Responsive Navigation Your Users Will Love

Building a WooCommerce Payment Extension

September 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Building a WooCommerce payment extension is a straightforward process for the most part. The hardest problem that you’ll probably encounter is learning how to interact with the merchant’s API to submit a payment and parse the response back. In this article, we are going to build the real thing: a working WooCommerce payment extension. Then, we’ll even connect it to a real payment processor, which we are going to submit payments to and parse the response. The Different Flavors of WooCommerce Payment Gateways There are four different types of WooCommerce payment gateways which we can build to process payments on your store. Let’s begin by taking a look at the one we are going to be using in this article; the Direct method. …

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Building a WooCommerce Payment Extension