Testing SMTP and POP3 Connections
It often happens that I need to check a certain SMTP and POP3 connections. Whether it is the user credentials or the authentication methods. Using telnet is one method, but you have to make sure you...
View ArticleChanging HAL of Windows XP to Multiprocessor-HAL
Taken from this forum turn off the driver signing: my computer -> properties -> hardware -> driver signing -> ignore then run this command in one line rundll32...
View ArticleChange HAL on Windows XP without Reinstallation
To change the HAL on Windows XP without having to reinstall Windows, please use this command line: rundll32 syssetup,SetupInfObjectInstallAction ACPIAPIC_MP_HAL 128 %windir%\inf\hal.inf Taken from here
View ArticleRecover a lost Firefox Session
After that stupid Windows Auto-updates restarted my machine (which was hibernated btw.), my entire Firefox session including all my tabs were gone. Using the about:sessionrestore trick did not work,...
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Resize PDF Files with Images using convert/Imagemagick
A client has scanned hundreds of PDF files using a wrong format. Instead of scanning b/w PDFs they scanned everything in color, which blew up the size of each PDF. The quest was to reduce the size of...
View ArticleChanging Write Cache Policy on Dell Server with VMWare ESX(i) and PERC RAID...
Issue: Writing to disks using a Perc (200 or 700/710) is slow. Cause: Write cache is disabled by default because of missing battery backed up cache unit (BBU). Remedy: Enable write back on the...
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Unkillable Process / Debugging Hanging Processes
We had some issues with the explorer.exe hanging and not responding. Of course the initial reaction: Kill the process. But in this case, it simply didn’t work. We tried using the taskmgr, taskkill,...
View ArticleGRML/Debian Disable PC Soundspeaker Beep
This is how to lower the annoying beep tones when using grml (or any other Debian based distro): amixer set 'MIXER' 0% mute amixer set 'Beep' 0% mute
View ArticleQNAP NAS Error in Domain “The NAS registration in DNS failed”
Common error which we had with multiple QNAP devices within an AD. Just edit the smb.conf and add at the end of the [global] section nano /etc/smb.conf [global] ... client ldap sasl wrapping = sign If...
View ArticleVMWare Snapshot Consolidation “unable to access file since it is locked”
Ever had the issue that after trying to delete snapshot which has filled your harddrives, that the snapshots/drives/vmdks needed consolidation, but you get an error message that the files are locked/in...
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