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How to make money with blogging.

I've got a quite substantial "extra" income with my Google Adsense ads on my blog. And I wll try to share the wealth with you, no I will not give you money I will post the most crucial tips into getting that extra bit of money every month. Write about something you know about don't just post keywords in a blog entry that will not help. Find a niche !  In what are you good at ? What do you do that makes you special ? Create channels to show relevant ADS for your blog / or do precisely the opposite. Post regular (bi-weekly seems best for me) Create a quite a few blogs where you apply all the above. Do not copy whole articles from other bloggers/sites google can/and will give you a penalty. Generate Traffic, signup by either feedburner / payperpost     There are quite a few more tricks you can use and I will write about them in the near future, so stay tuned.

Logmein Update

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If you followed my last posts about logmein you know that I ran into trouble, with going to fullscreen mode in internet explorer 7. Those problems seems to be resolved in the newest download of logmein.   download the latest version of logmein here     Above you can see a screenshot of a remote session I did. Tags van Technorati: logmein , free , update

Top 5 of the best freeware / opensource software for network admins of 2007

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The end is near (of 2007 that is) so its time for those lists again. Today I post my top 5 of the best freeware,crippleware,adware and opensource software I have used in 2007. To start off with this list I must first define a definition of freeware, freeware in my eyes is software that you can use freely. In that light also crippleware is included in my list. And so if opensource. This year has been quite a year for freeware. Just take a look at the amounts of money spiceworks and for example crossloop gathered through investors. see the pressreleases here for the spiceworks pressrelease and here for the crossloop press release. It seems that the industry is picking up those marbles out there. SpiceWorks Desktop Logmein Free Edition Comodo Personal Firewall Pro Nessus Security Scanner Prtg Traffic Grapher 1. Spiceworks Desktop This is for me a really handy application, it saves me time everyday I use it. It keeps tracks of all events i

Spiceworks 2.0

Today or Yesterday my favorite network management software went out of beta. I was using the beta version of 2.0 quite a while now, and didn't had any problem running it. So I followed the instructions to upgrade to the final release and all went smooth! If you are managing a network / computers this tool is really invaluable!

How to restore a file in a DFSroot with BackupExec

After my last rant about Backup Exec I'm here to unleash another one. You can't simply restore a file to a dfsroot! You will have to manually stop the DFS service first before you try to restore something in the dfsroot.   I hope BackupExec will try to resolve this issue right now!     Technorati tags: BackupExec 10d , Restore , DFS , DFSroot , net stop dfsroot.

RAR command line with real world example

Every week I make an ASR backup of my Windows 2003 R2 servers, some of them are physically located at another site. Due to that fact I had to think of a secure way to get my data over the WAN to my office. Just plain copying is not an option because we all know if one bit falls over my complete ASR backup is rubbish. And I would have wasted precious bandwidth. A solution I could come up with was to use plain old WinRar, I found out that there was a command line version as well. But the help that comes with that version is kinda cryptic. Below is my command line that I came up with. rar a d:\asr-bu\done\asr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:\asr-bu\*.bkf I will explain it in full detail: rar a d:\asr-bu\done\asr_server.rar -ri1 -mt2 -ag[yyyy-mm-dd] -rv10 -v51200 -m5 d:\asr-bu\*.bkf a = add files to archive, that really speaks for itself I think. we are going to add files to an archive. rar a d:\asr-bu\done\asr_server.rar

Backup Exec 10d [Append Explained]

Well I've found out the hard way how append actually works in Backup Exec. I thought and I think most of the people that when you create a job and in that job you select " Append to media overwrite when no appendable media is found " that the job would overwrite your media when there is no more room on the tape. This is partially true. This does NOT work when you have set your Media set to " Infinite - allow append " then it will append until your media becomes full and then asks you for new media, I've found this quite confusing. The trick is that you have to set the append period for your media set to a period of time otherwise your media will not be able to be overwritten when your tape becomes full. I've set my media set to an append period of one 1 week after that the media set will be overwritten by the backup job. I have enough space for that make sure when you create your append period that you have enough room on your tap

Backup Exec: How to backup DFS on windows 2003 R2

After the installation of service pack 4 of Backup Exec 10d. I noticed that my backup of the DFS was completely empty. I made a backup of my DFS root as specified in the lengthy manual of backup exec approximate ~1400 pages! But all of a sudden Backup Exec seemed to have changed the way they make DFS backups. The way to backup a DFS is now as follows: When you create your selection list go to the server holding your DFS go to [Shadow Copy components] ==> [User Data] ==> [Distributed Filesystem Replication] ==> [DfsrReplicatedFolders] There you will find your Folders which you want to backup. Technorati Tags: Backup Exec 10d , Backup , DFS , DFSR , Windows Server 2003 R2 , service pack 4 , DFS root , shadow components

Backup Exec slow Exchange Mailbox Backup [Solved]

I had a problem with a slow backup performance of Backup Exec. The whole process took around 12 hours for the mailboxes only ~32GB. The problem was at least in my case that around the same time of the backup, a database maintenance job was running. It was set to start around 4am. You can change the schedule of the database job in ESM ==> Server ==> <your exchange server> ==> First Storage Group ==> [tab] Database ==> Maintenance Interval ==> [Customize] Now you can set your own maintenance schedule which off course does not interfere with your backup schedule. Hope this will help you in solving slow backups of your exchange mailboxes with backup exec.   Technorati Tags: backup exec , exchange , slow , backup , mailbox , Exchange System Manager , ESM

Create an VPN Connection with a Juniper Netscreen 5GT (Part 1)

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I created this post because I really hate the juniper site with their links to other documents instead of displaying the whole document all together. To configure an L2TP over IPSec tunnel, perform the following steps: Configure an L2TP over IPSec user on the Juniper Firewall. For more information on configuring an L2TP over IPSec user, go to Configuring an L2TP over IPSec User on the Juniper Firewall . Configure an L2TP user group on the Juniper Firewall. For more information on configuring an L2TP user group, go to Configuring an L2TP User Group on the Juniper Firewall . Configure an L2TP group gateway on the Juniper Firewall. For more information on configuring an L2TP group gateway, go to Configuring an L2TP Group Gateway and VPN on the Juniper Firewall . Configure an L2TP IP pool on the Juniper Firewall. For more information on configuring an L2TP IP pool, go to Configuring an L2TP IP Pool on the Juniper Firewall . Configure the L2TP VPN default settings on the J