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Administration

Shrink Oracle VirtualBox VM

Dynamic Disks If you use a Dynamic Disk in Oracle VirtualBox then you’ll probably notice that your disk space usage will increase over time however this space never reclaimed when you delete data from your virtual machine.
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Setup VPN Client on Synology NAS (DSM 5.1)

In this article I’ll show you how you can configure you Synology NAS to use a VPN. In this case I’m using DSM 5.1. Why use a VPN client? A VPN client will help mask your activities online by tunneling your traffic through an intermediary proxy. Why would you want to configure your Synology NAS to use […]
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Miscellaneous

How to setup Apple iTunes within Oracle Virtualbox

Let me explain … Ok, for the record, I’m not the biggest fan of iTunes for Windows, and that’s why when I needed to use iTunes I decided to install it within an Oracle Virtualbox virtual machine. This configuration provides the benefit of portability and it also prevents Apple iTunes from wreaking havoc on your host PC. Hooray for no iTunes […]
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Register .Net Framework version with IIS web server

Visual Studio Error When trying to open a Visual Studio solution, I encountered the following error. C:\myFilePath\myService.Service.csproj : error  : The Web Application Project XXXXXX.Service is configured to use IIS. IIS is not installed on this computer. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components:       Internet Information […]
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Administration

Process Explorer Error: Run Process Explorer from a writeable directory

The Problem I came across the following error while trying to run the Sysinternals Process Explorer program. Unable to extract 64-bit image. Run Process Explorer from a writeable directory. What’s Going On? Process Explorer extracts and executes the appropriate x86 or x64 binary for the platform you’re on, and therefore requires elevated privileges (i.e. “Administrative […]
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