Posted on February 15, 2009 by symbolik
[UPDATED 10-18-2009 - Numerous old typos fixed, several new typos added, syntaxes corrected, updates made for newer versions of stuff, better instructions, cooler errors, and even a little more attention to detail paid.]
[CREDIT for getlists.sh goes to Step By Step - www.maynidea.com. Thank you for this script, and sorry it took so long to [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2009 by symbolik
I was cleaning out my blogroll, which led to this great tip from Jeff’s Healthcare IT blog (as well as the previous post about default passwords). Instead of opening up your case, this command will tell you what is in use. Should be similar for other Linux flavors as well.
sudo dmidecode -t 17
Visit his site [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2009 by symbolik
Great info to have – so change your defaults ASAP.
Visit Technofriend’s blog for the details.
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Posted on February 8, 2009 by symbolik
I have had to employ this fix more than once, so it goes on the blog. It applies to VMware-Server 1.x on newer kernels – I dunno if the 2.x version has the same issue.
Thanks Dave.
The fix:
cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib
/usr/lib/vmware/lib$ sudo mkdir bak
/usr/lib/vmware/lib$ sudo mv libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 bak/
Make sure to run the vmware command in a console [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2009 by symbolik
For when you have a need to access one Windows box from another using RDP (like from XP to Server 2003, perhaps), and you want to do it securely – tunnel it over SSH.
Link for using PuTTY
Link for using OpenSSH for Windows (the link to the SSHSecureShellClient may not work, so you might have to [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2009 by symbolik
First off, this was a mild pain, to put it royally. The steps from my previous post are the same, but when stepping through the new features in the “make oldconfig” or “make menuconfig” portions, two things stand out:
When prompted about firmware blobs in the kernel, one of the questions does not have a (Y,m,n,?) [...]
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