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Recovering data from Lacie Big Disk | Snorri Páll

I’ve had a Lacie Big Disk Ethernet 1TB for some time now. I used it as a mediaserver but since it’s not built to handle so many files (20.000 + mp3) the boot disk got filled up and didnt have any space left leaving it unable to boot,

Linux

/dev/blog » Using udevadm to gather information about specific device

/dev/blog » Using udevadm to gather information about specific device [http://raftaman.net/?p=343]. Usually, udevadm requires the sysfs device path of the device in question. But you can also ask udevadm which device path belongs to a certain device node. This gets really helpful if you combine these

Debian

Gentoo Blog » iptables

Upgrading Iptables to 1.4 on Debian Etch Simon | January 28, 2009 I required the module connlimit to limit the number of connections on one of our Debian firewall boxes. After a while of try and error i found out that the iptables version shipped with debian 1.3.6

Networking

Consider secondary VLANs to isolate critical or high risk systems | IT Security | TechRepublic.com

Virtual local area network [http://webopedia.com/TERM/V/VLAN.html](VLAN) technology has been around for some time. It provides for flexible, distributed Layer 2 [http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/OSI.html] network segmentation and resource isolation. An additional capability often overlooked by network engineers allows for further

Games

Fixes for RtCW Single player and Quake II OpenGL: - Windows 7 Forums

Fixes for RtCW Single player and Quake II OpenGL: – Windows 7 Forums [http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/46278-fixes-rtcw-single-player-quake-ii-opengl.html] . Fixes for RtCW Single player and Quake II (default OpenGL mode): Step 1 (for both games): Download and install nHancer [http://www.nhancer.com/]. Step 2a (Quake 2): Run nHancer and

backup

Error message when you use the Removable Storage Management snap-in on a Windows Server 2003-based computer: "The network connection does not exist"

Error message when you use the Removable Storage Management snap-in on a Windows Server 2003-based computer: “The network connection does not exist” [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892257/en-us]. To resolve this problem, configure Windows Firewall settings on the remote computer to allow for remote administration. To do this, follow

Freeagent

FreeAgent Drive - Remove Standby

Seagate FreeAgent drives have an annoying tendency to spin themselves down under linux, causing linux to give up on the drive and disconnect the device. The sdparm utility can resolve this. However it has been found that the sdparm command would fail if the drive was already idled. # the drive

Linux

perlre - Perl regular expressions

perlre – Perl regular expressions [http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html]. NAME perlre – Perl regular expressions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION This page describes the syntax of regular expressions in Perl. For a description of how to use regular expressions in matching operations, plus various examples of the same, see

Excel

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel [http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl/WriteExcel.html]:is a cross platform Perl module for creating Excel binary files. Multiple worksheets can be added to a workbook and formatting can be applied to cells. Text, numbers, formulas, hyperlinks and images can be written to the cells. The Excel

AD

How do I add a domain group to the local administrators group on all pcs | 2 of 7

Set a startup script in group policy with the following line: NET localgroup Administrators /add “domain_name\domain_group” Once your computer is joined to the domain, place the computer in the proper OU (where your startup script lies) and reboot. (Or preconfigure your ADUC with the computername in the

Windoze

Restart or Shutdown Windows XP, 2000 and Vista from Command Line or One-Click Shortcut » My Digital Life

If you getting tired of everytime have to clicking Start menu, and then click on Turn Off Computer, and then still have to click on Turn Off or Restart or Log Off in order to log off, restart or shut down your computer, and feel that it’s time wasting,

Linux

Removing duplicates from a PostgreSQL database - Siafoo

Removing duplicates from a PostgreSQL database – Siafoo [http://www.siafoo.net/article/64]. The basic assumptions are that you have a table, named foo, that contains a text field, called contents and that the contents field may contain duplicate rows. For my purposes I am using a table with 30,

Linux

danielmiessler.com | study | A Tcpdump Tutorial / Primer

danielmiessler.com | study | A Tcpdump Tutorial / Primer [http://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/]. It’s also important to note that tcpdump only takes the first 68 bytes of data from a packet by default. If you would like to look at more, add the -s number option to the mix, where

Linux

ngrep - network grep

* ngrep -d any port 25 Monitor all activity crossing source or destination port 25 (SMTP). * ngrep -d any 'error' port syslog Monitor any network-based syslog traffic for the occurrence of the word “error”. ngrep knows how to convert service port names (on UNIX, located in “/etc/services”) to

TCP/IP

Windows XP/Vista/7 TCP/IP Fixes

Reset and reconfigure TCP/IP in Windows > ipconfig /release ipconfig /all ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /renew netsh int ip set dns name=”Interface Name” source=dhcp netsh winsock reset netsh int ip reset c:\reset.txt

dnsmasq

Dnsmasq Tricks

Some useful settings and tweaks for dnsmasq: Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP: Since DNSMasq acting as a local DNS server suitably takes care of host name resolution, disabling NetBT on appropriately configured Microsoft DHCP clients, such as Windows 2000 and XP, can be accomplished with the following: dhcp-option=43,01:

Linux

VMWare Tools and Rc.D

Install Procedure: 1. Select the option to install vmware tools on the WKS/GSX UI. Usually VM -> Install VMware Tools 2. Then log into the Gentoo VM as tools and mount the cd-rom drive. #mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 3. Then untar the vmware tools so some temp

Perl

Perl - Filesys::SmbClient and Tie

We recently had need to grab a small file from a machine (network management devices running NT4 client) to a Perl script. We can’t make changes on these clients but the file is available on a network share. Enter the Filesys::SmbClient module, the documentation of which shows the

java

CodeLifter.com - JavaScript - Bring Window To Front Periodically

You can use a timer to call self.focus() for this, that is triggered whenever the window loses focus by detecting the onblur event. Add onBlur=”setTimeout(‘self.focus()’,500)” to the window’s body tag, like this: > <body onBlur=”setTimeout(‘self.focus()’,500)”> The 500 is

Linux

Postgres - Output to CSV

Quick and dirty export Postgres table to csv file: > psql dbname \f ‘,’ \a \o outputfile.csv select * from table; \o \q

demidecode

Dmidecode - Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case

Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer’s DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system’s hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you

Debian

Linux Kernel 2.6.24 with iptables 1.4.0, ipp2p -0.8.2 and L7-filter 2.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.24 with iptables 1.4.0, ipp2p -0.8.2 and L7-filter 2.17 [http://www.caronico.com/linux/ipp2p-kernel-2.6.24.html]. The described process below works for Kernel 2.6.24 and has been tested on Debian Etch 4.0 Please note the the

Cisco

Cisco 857 and SDM

It seems there is a bug in SDM with relation to the current IOS image which prevents SDM from recognising that the 857 does not support the zone based firewall or class-map. This is not a problem with earlier IOS versions. The work around is to connect via the console

Hardware

Replace Motherboard

Replace a failed motherboard: This scenario assumes that your existing motherboard has failed and that you cannot start the existing Windows installation on the hard disk. To replace a failed motherboard with a new motherboard and to then reconfigure Windows to work with the new motherboard, do the following: Turn

Virtualisation

VMWare Disk Shrinking

For Linux based Guest OSs: >cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm -f zero.fill Shutdown the guest OS From the host OS run >vmware-vdiskmanager -k myDisk.vmdk For Windows based Guest OSs: Before you can shrink a virtual disk, you must prepare each