How to Kill All Your Processes
Here’s a quick tip for killing your processes on Linux/UNIX: kill -1 -1 The first -1 is the signal you are going to send and the second -1 means “every process”. The -1 signal is SIGHUP (hang up) which...
View ArticleAtempo Time Navigator 4.2 Archive Media Selection Tunable
Just a quick post here to share a non-obvious tunable for Atempo’s Time Navigator 4.2 regarding archiving and media selection. Before upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2 Time Navigator’s media selection for...
View ArticleWhen using Syncrepl…
Quick OpenLDAP tip boys & girls… When using syncrepl to replicate from a master LDAP server to a slave LDAP server, always remember to configure the ACLs on the master LDAP server to allow the...
View ArticleLTSP 5 and AIGLX
Woot! LTSP 5 + LDM over SSH (LDM_DIRECTX=False in lts.conf) + Open source radeon driver with AIGLX is working! Nothing like running compiz smoothly on a dual monitor thin client :D The problem I was...
View ArticleFresh Win2k Install and Windows Update Error
I needed to re-install a Windows 2000 Pro system today because the HDD was failing and we wanted to convert from ATA to SATA at some point anyways. We have nice gzipped dd images of the system, but...
View ArticleBrowsing Automounted NFS with Nautilus
Has browsing automounted NFS shares with nautilus got you pulling out hair in frustration? Ever since we transitioned from the RHEL4 environment to Fedora 14, people have been reporting terrible...
View ArticleVMware IP Hash Algorithm Calculator
Have you ever needed to determined the uplink port that a particular IP connection uses within your VMware vSphere environment when using IP hash load balancing algorithm, but were discouraged by the...
View ArticlePowerShell Tips: Group AD Members & Non-expiring Passwords
Display (enabled) members of an AD group (recursively): Get-ADGroupMember "GROUP_NAME" -Recursive | Get-ADUser | Where-Object Enabled -EQ True | Sort -Property Name | Select Name,sAMAccountName Display...
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Sticky Scrolling Modifier (for Windows)
I’m a ‘baller, a trackballer. Yes, I’m one of those people. My colleagues hate it. The director teases me about being a massive geek for using one. I love it. The one thing that many trackballs seem to...
View ArticleRDP Inception and Password Changes
A common pain point that seems to come up regularly among technical folks is how to change a Windows account password over an RDP connection. The correct answer is Control+Alt+End, right? Of course....
View ArticleTime Management with Trello
I have been using Trello to manage my time, tasks and projects for several months now and it’s the most satisfied I’ve been with any particular tool to date. It’s simple. It’s easy. It’s generic enough...
View ArticleHPE MSA2040 Password Recovery / Factory Reset
I recently needed to reset the password on an HPE MSA2040 SAN to which I had physical access. It turns out this information was more difficult to find than I had presumed. The often recommended action...
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