Sometimes I have to check drives under their native operating system. Recently I wanted to access a ntfs partition directly under Windows running inside a virtual machine. Here’s how to (easily) do it: #>VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ./ntfs_test.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb -register VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.4 (C) 2005-2007 innotek GmbH All rights...
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Apache 2.2 will not serve corectly from CIFS mounted share
I have a home server I use for all kinds of stuff when I’m away. I have set it up recently so that it can serve a folder mounted over the network from a Windows machine. And this is where the fun started! The...
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Get the new Firefox 4.0 beta for Linux 64 bit.
I wanted to play a bit with the Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta. Well, if you go to the download site there’s no apparent way to download the 64 bit version of Firefox. This is where I got it: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/4.0b1
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How to check if TRIM is enabled on your SSD
God a fancy new drive? SSD maybe? TRIM support advertised? Well, here’s how you can check if TRIM support is actually enabled and working in your windows installation: Start...
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Core I7 and I5 throtle more than the core 2
I recently found out that the power management inside the new I5 and I7 Intel processors is much more inteligent than what the older core2 has. For example a...
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Network interface bonding in Slackware (version 13.1)
A backup NAS I set up for a client had some problems – i.e. from time to time the network card would hang forcing a reboot (the machine was...
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Force fsck on next reboot
Let’s say you run a headless server and you want to fsck the main partition. The easy solution in this case is (if possible) to force fsck to run...
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MYSQL: set first letter of field to uppercase
I recently had to set values of a set of values from a column from lowercase to Firstuppercase. Nothing easier, run the following code on the database: UPDATE `affected_table`...
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Windows XP – prevent a user’s password from expiring
One of my clients called be mecause every now and then his was bugged by Windows XP to change his password. This seemed weird as XP doesn’t do this...
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