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Change Cisco MDS Admin password
Step 1 Use the show user-accounts command to verify that your user name has network-admin privileges. switch# show user-account user:admin this user account has no expiry date roles:network-admin Step...
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Notepad++ for Linux (Notepadqq)
Add yours and my favourite text editor (Notepad++) to your preferred Linux distribution (Linux Mint) using the following commands… sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq sudo apt-get...
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Best file manager on Linux? Dolphin.
Need a powerful file manager on Linux? Minimalism is so last decade. Functionality is king and it needn’t look ugly either. Look no further than Dolphin. KDE’s file manager and it’s an absolute...
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Protect your Anonymity online with Vadalia, Privoxy and Proxychains
Happy New Year. You will be monitored. We are watching you. We know who you are. We know where you are. The following is a concise guide to configuring Internet Anonymity on Linux by leveraging...
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Export all users in ActiveDirectory
If you’re tasked with generating a list / creating a spreadsheet of all user accounts in AD but are worried you might miss out an OU when manually going through and exporting the list using the Active...
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Users home directory folders displayed as “My Documents”
When viewing a mounted shared filesystem that contains users home directories, many of the folders will be displayed in Windows Explorer as “My Documents” instead of the logon name e.g. bloggsj. When...
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Obtaining disk serial numbers from VNX
Most things VNX can be exported using Unisphere’s little export icon in the top right hand corner of most if not all dialogs. Disk information would be found under System, Hardware, Disks. You’ll see...
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When Google Chrome won’t start.
So Chrome won’t start and the error message is unhelpful. Microsoft support won’t help of course and Google’s sledgehammer approach is “just blow away your User Data and start over” but you don’t want...
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Accidentally formatted hard disk recovery
So you had more than one hard disk plugged into your nice new Humax FreeSat set top box, one containing all your existing downloaded media and the other, an empty one intended for recording. Upon...
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Enable NFSv4 on VNX
To enable NFSv4 on your up-to-date (post VNX OE for File v7.1) VNX Unified storage system and configure a datamover to mount a filesystem to allow for NFSv4 access with a MIXED access policy, the...
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Download the full Firefox stand-alone installer
There’s nothing more frustrating than downloading an installer that assumes that you’re going to have internet access on the machine that you subsequently intend to run the installer on (called a stub...
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Manually set IP, Subnet and Gateway addresses on VNX Control Station
How to change the Control Station IP Address and Subnet Mask Log in to the Control Station as root. Change the IP address and network mask by using this command syntax: Note: /sbin/ifconfig -a revealed...
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Robocopy folders with ampersands in the name
Don’t use & in file and folder names. With that little pearl of wisdom out of the way, what about when your users have used ampersand characters in their folder names and you’re trying to robocopy...
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Batch resize all your images in a folder
Install imagemagick using your favourite package manager and use mogrify to quickly and easily resize all images contained therein to 1000 pixels wide.
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Deleting inaccessible data such as users homedirectories
Users Home Directories are often hardened such that even Domain Administrators have problems migrating them and subsequently deleting them. A way to deal with that is already documented here so this...
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Manually Upgrading WordPress
Get the latest WordPress tar.gz file. Unpack it on your computer Deactivate plugins on your wordpress site. Using filezilla, rename the old wp-includes and wp-admin directories on your web host. Using...
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Missing sidHistory attributes on migrated accounts
Log onto a server and open a command prompt as Administrator. Issue the following dsquery to create a four column, comma separated text file of all users names, logon names, primary object SID and if...
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Creating bootable Solaris 11 USB drive
Download the requisite Solaris OS image from Oracle here. You may need to create a free account first. Note that if you are building a SPARC server e.g. T8-2, it comes with Solaris pre-installed. You...
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Solaris 11 ZFS Administration
This concise post aims to cover the basics of ZFS administration on Solaris. Excuse the brevity, it is for reference rather than a detailed explanation. ZFS Pools zpool list && zpool status...
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Oracle Solaris 11 Networking and Virtualization with Zones
This concise post is intended to be used as reference rather than a detailed explanation, so please excuse any apparent brevity. A more comprehensive explanation can be found here. The basic steps of...
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