Category: Computers
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Ultimate Media Server Setup Guide 2016 (Video)
It has been awhile since I have made a video on media servers and boy has this space changed. I no longer use any of the media servers I previously made videos on and my personal setup along with the devices I use has changed quite a bit. That combined with the fact that this…
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IIS 8 with ECC certificates – increasing your SSL Security on Windows Server 2012
What is an ECC Certificate and why would you need one? The main difference with an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificate is with how the certificate is signed, in this case the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) is used vs the standard RSA we are used to seeing. Once you have a certificate signed…
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Hardening SSL & TLS connections on Windows Server 2008 R2 & 2012 R2
Hardening your SSL/TLS connections is a pretty common thing to do on any Windows Server running IIS and web applications that utilize HTTPS, especially if they require some sort of compliance. It is generally a good idea to do this on all of your servers though, to ensure your secure connections really are secure. On…
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Fix the obsolete cryptography warning in Chrome on IIS 7 & 8
Update – 2.2.2016 – The ciphers originally listed in this post no longer work to fix the obsolete cryptography warning as Google has upped the requirement from DHE with AES_128_GCM to ECDHE with AES_128_GCM or CHACHA20_POLY1305. The only ciphers we have on Windows that are close to this requirement are all ECDHE-ECDSA which will require…
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Dell CS24-SC BIOS & BMC v2.5 Firmware Download
Here are the most current BIOS and BMC firmwares available for the Dell CS24-SC that I know of. The BMC upgrade makes the fans considerably less loud and has a few upgrades to the BMC Software/Web GUI. With the Bios update I am now able to run Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1 on the…
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Home Server Stack v2
It has been a year or so since I have done an update on my home server stack, there have been a considerable amount of changes and of course a lot of lessons learned. I recently changed jobs and had to move my stack over 1500 miles away, which ended up in a complete rethink…
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Steam’s Big Picture
With all the talk to Steam’s new SteamOS and the possibility of some console style hardware, I thought it is time to give Steam another try. So in this video I wanted to give a quick demo of Steam on Windows 7 and show their Big Picture mode, which is more of a full screen…
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Customizing Minecraft with Texture packs! (Video)
Have you ever seen someone’s Minecraft gameplay online and wondered how they got that awesome looking sword or pick? Texture packs are the answer and I show you how to download and load them up in this video! Texture or Resource packs are freely available for download on a few sites like minecrafttexturepacks.com/ and minepacks.com/.…
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Free DEDICATED Minecraft 1.6.2 Multiplayer setup! Windows 7 (Video)
Running your own Minecraft server is a great way to share your games and connect with friends. In this video I cover some of the basics how to configure and get a Minecraft server up in no time. The server itself is small java applet that can run on Windows, Linux and Mac. Since the…
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Serviio Plugin Install – Stream YouTube and Twitch.tv/Justin.tv channels to PS3, XBOX 360, Android
Plugins for what? Plugins for Serviio offer support for all sorts of online media, most if not all can be downloaded for free from forum.serviio.org. In the video I demonstrate how to download and install a plugin pack called A.P.P, which is a whole collection of plugins. After the plugins are installed, feeds or web…
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