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How to edit settings on a Ctrix Metaframe NFuse Server

Something that comes up irregularly with clients: How do I change the settings of the logon screen for Citrix’s web interface?
And the good news is that it’s quite simple.
Open up your webbrowser and goto https://nfuseserver/citrix/metaframe/wiadmin remembering to change nfuseserver with the name of your own server.
Once in, you can configure your farms and servers quite [...]

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Deleting files older than a specific date or age

I needed to delete a chunk of cookies today – but I didn’t want to delete them all.
Thankfully there is a handy command that is within Windows versions after XP such as Server 2003 and Vista that will enable to clean up without too many problems.
The forfiles command will allow you to set a specific [...]

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Block Facebook Adverts in Firefox

Anyone using Facebook will know that it’s quite annoying losing a good chunk of screen real estate to the adverts on the right hand side.
Of course, many others think so and there is a nice extension that will block various adverts around the internet including Facebook’s own.
Now, I’m not going to get into the morality [...]

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How to download BBC iPlayer programmes

Fed up with the BBC iPlayer? Well this article explains how to download BBC videos straight to your computer to watch in your favourite video player.

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SCP and filename spaces

Copying files with scp is difficult enough without spaces. So when a filename contains a space, scp seems to start behaving by its own rules.

Here’s a command that will copy unusual filenames without any problems in scp.

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Reset your MediaWiki Sysop Password

When you’re stuck without sysop access to MediaWiki because you cannot remember the sysop details then there’s a handy maintenance script that’s available (if you’ve used the package manager) to reset the sysop username and password.
On Ubuntu server you can run the following command:
php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/changePassword.php –user=sysop –password=password
The script will immediately reset your sysop username and [...]

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