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Welcome to my Kimsufi Windows Install Guide. OVH have some very cheap entry level dedicated servers which are branded under the Kimsufi name. The KS1 server which is currently £5 a month including VAT gets you a: Atom N2800 @1.86ghz Processor (2 cores, 4 threads) 2GB DDR3 ram 500GB sata hard drive 100mbps connection 1x IP V4 address Alternatively for £10 a month you can get the same server with 4GB of ram and a 1TB hard drive (KS2 Server) The only choice of OS for these server however is limited to Linux, OVH used to let you use your own Windows licence, however this is not an option any more. Not all is lost however, all OVH / Kimsufi servers offer a Linux based rescue system. This is where the servers hard drive is essentially mounted inside a Linux Live CD so you can perform diagnostics or troubleshoot any problems. As the OVH rescue system system gives direct access to the servers hard drive we can use this to deploy a sysprepped Windows install over the internet. Combined with an unattend.xml file this sysprepped Windows install is enough to deploy Windows Server 2012 R2 on the Kimsufi KS-1 and KS-2 servers and have it connected to the internet…

The Nvidia ION chipset was used in affordable Intel Atom based Nettop PC’s released in 2009 onwards. Although not very powerful compared to PC’s of the time Nvidia ION based Nettop PC’s such as the Acer Revo R3600 series and the AsRock ION 330 where very popular for playing HD video. Using XBMC 720p and 1080p HD video decoding could be offloaded from the Intel Atom processor to the Nvidia ION GPU, allowing 1080p High Definition video to played back with ease on a very low powered device. If you want to install a more modern version of Windows on an Intel Atom / Nvidia ION based desktop that is perfectly possible. Windows 8 works perfectly, as does the Windows 10 preview. Windows Update contains all the drives you require to get the system running with the exception of the Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver. Thankfully though the Windows 7 Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver still works perfectly on Windows 8 and 10, and can be installed without installing any other older drivers. Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 / 10 Download: Download Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 and 10 32bit Download Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 and 10…

“SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate” is an error message Wordpress kept presenting to me when i was trying to integrate my Instagram / Twitter feed in to this blog. The good news is the fix is really easy, once you know how! Basically the problem was a PHP configuration issue on my server, i needed to have a list of up to date public Certificate Authorities defined in my php.ini file. I found a list of public Certificate Authorities that were extracted from Mozilla’s root certificates file, these are used in the FireFox webbrowser. This list contained the certificates in PEM format, therefore could be directly used with curl / libcurl / php_curl, or with an Apache+mod_ssl webserver for SSL client authentication. How to fix the unable to get local issuer certificate problem: Downloaded the cacert.pem (mirror) which has been extracted from Mozilla’s root certificates file Opened your PHP.ini file, the location of this will vary depending on your configuration. Then added the following line: curl.cainfo=C:\inetpub\cacert.pem Remember to change C:\inetpub\ to the path of your cacert.pem file. As my webserver is IIS i placed the cacert.pem in C:\inetpub so IIS had access to it. After the PHP configuration has been updated re-start your webserver, you should…

This tutorial will teach you how to update listings with variations on Ebay, using Ebay File Exchange. This task will be completed with one simple upload to Ebay File Exchange. If you have been re stocking your item quantity or revising prices manually, this is guaranteed to save you a lot of time. If you have found this tutorial and are new to Ebay File Exchange have a look at my previous tutorial which covers What is Ebay File Exchange Creating a template for Ebay File Exchange uploads Revising the price and quantity of multiple single item listings Uploading to Ebay File Exchange Read: How To Update Product Quantities and Prices Using Ebay File Exchange How to update listings with variations using Ebay File Exchange Presuming you have followed my previous tutorial linked to above it is actually quite easy to advance your Ebay spreadsheet to update the quantity and prices of listing which have variations, and even multiple variations. First i will show you how to update an item with a single variation, for example multiple colour choices, then after that i will show you how to update an item with multiple variations, for example colour and size variations. Updating…

Why create a ESXi Bootable Flash Drive on Windows? Lets be honest, I personally find burning a disc to install something a waste these days, chances are you might not even have an optical drive in your main computer any more if your anything like me. Creating a bootable usb flash drive to install VMware ESXi from on Windows is easy thanks to UNetbootin. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable usb drives for Linux distributions without burning a CD. I find this tool very handy now as more computers and servers are running without CD drives, plus its a lot quicker to transfer the contents of an ISO to a USB drive then it is to burn a disc! Creating a VMware ESXi Bootable Flash Drive on Windows: Firstly Download UNetBootin Connect the usb flash drive you wish to use as your VMware ESXi Bootable Flash to your computer, note this process will erase the contents of the flash drive. Load UNetBootin and select the diskimage radiobox, choose ISO, then select the ISO you want to use. Below select the type as a USB Drive, then finally choose the drive letter of your USB Memory stick, for myself this was F:\ Click Go  The…