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Hyper-V, USBIP & Home Assistant

Hyper-V, USBIP & Home Assistant

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I recently purchased a number of Zigbee 3 bulbs to install around my house, but unfortunately the Philips Hue hub seems to be locked down to only support lights from their preferred manufacturers. So, I’ve started setting up Home Assistant, installed within a Hyper-V virtual machine. The idea is to eventually replace the Hue hub with a more flexible and less expensive system. Home Assistant supports loads of Zigbee gateways, so I grabbed a Sonoff Dongle P from Amazon. This…

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Something different for 2013 – Windows Phone 8

Something different for 2013 – Windows Phone 8

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Last November the Orange contract on my old HTC Desire-Z phone came up for renewal. I’ve been intrigued by the new Windows Phone system since its original launch but never really though about switching, at least until a friend lent me his old Samsung Omnia 7. This phone runs the older Windows Phone 7.5 system, but is good enough to get an idea of what switching to a new Windows Phone would be like. I really liked the new system…

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Backing up Windows Server 2008 & Exchange Server 2007 With Bacula

Backing up Windows Server 2008 & Exchange Server 2007 With Bacula

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UPDATE: This article is somewhat out of date. Bacula has provided a native plugin for performing backups of the database store for quite a while. Visit www.bacula.org for more information! Over the past couple of days I’ve been battling away trying to get the Win32 Bacula agent to back up my Windows Server 2008 System State and Exchange Server 2007 Information Store Databases. Bacula currently doesn’t support VSS backups of a 64-Bit version of Windows Server 2008, so there’s a…

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