Comments for btm.geek

Comment on Recovering from a Windows Server 2003 mirrored dynamic disk failure by teethdood

teethdood — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:38:45 +0000

So I spent an entire day reading/trying various methods (went to hell and back to create floppy boot disks in 2010), none of the methods worked. So I kinda did my own thing while crossing my fingers in desperation:

1) remove the failed primary drive, insert the mirror as primary
2) boot up using the windows server 2003 boot CD
3) Press R to go to the Recovery Console
4) type “map” to list all attached drives (my single hard drive is \Device\Harddisk0)
5) type “fixmbr \Device\Harddisk0″ to recreate the MBR
6) now when you try to boot to the hard drive, I could select “Boot Mirror C: secondary plex” but then it fails
7) remove the drive and stick it into another windows computer
go to the drive (now listed as D:) then edit boot.ini to change the 2 values of the rdisk from 1 to 0 – for example, multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1) to rdisk(0)

Voila! you can now boot things up just fine. Stick another drive in and mirror it again. Much simpler than dealing with the bootable floppy business. MS just makes things impossible to create a bootable device.

Comment on remote packet capture with wireshark and tshark on linux by Coral

Coral — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:47:04 +0000

Brilliant

How would you do it when the server has a password for ssh and you have a password for the sudoers file

Comment on att tilt tethering done simple and cheap by Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:41:40 +0000

That “internet sharing” program in the Windows folder works like a charm!
AWESOME! Just don’t do it too much, if too much data is transferred then AT&T will start to catch on and they can drop you, or automatically charge you for tethering plans. So BE CAREFUL, but happy FREE tethering…

Comment on OCS 2007 and Communicator Address Book issues by Steve

Steve — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:40:32 +0000

Thank you. Very clearly presented and worked for us.

Comment on ntpd and windows server 2003 sp1 w32time by Sam Liddicott

Sam Liddicott — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:56:49 +0000

Sounds like you might want msntp which is more for slaving clocks than tracking a reliable time source (which you possibly don’t have – I noticed you having to lie about it to get partial success).

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/msntp.1.html

To slave my clock, I’ll be playing with a loop something like:

while :
do
# step-sync at bootup and before samba starts
msntp -r –P no $DC
# now run in adjtime mode forever
msntp -a -x $DC
# if msntp quits, we are either shutting down
# or something horrid happened so step-sync and try again
done

Comment on att tilt tethering done simple and cheap by miraclebubble

miraclebubble — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:06:05 +0000

so, i follow the directions on my TILT and i get Cannot Connect-Error APN. What does that mean?

Comment on Making Outlook 2007 quote responsibly by Luke

Luke — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:10:15 +0000

I’ve googled around for this at least 4 times since outlook 2007 came out, and each time I almost end up throwing my monitor out the window before figuring it out. There’s a post on expertsexchange (ho ho ho) that covers it. After the guy posing the quetsion has exchanged 10 posts with what must be a brick.

Where “paragraph unindent” used to break the blue line in quoted html, you now need to do whatever hitting control+q does. Something about paragraph formatting.

It still doesn’t use the character you’ve chosen to quote with, but at least it lets you reply in-line without ambiguity.

So, again, hit control+q to break the blue line.

Comment on Dependant Paradigms by Eric Bixler

Eric Bixler — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:28:41 +0000

As reading that text smoked my brain, I see the smoke was due to digusting the smaller parts, but once completely read, I totally got it. It was really like a poem in my opinion, and a well written one at that. As my poems usually make me feel the same way when I read them a week or two after writing them.

Comment on LSI mptlinux / mptsas 3.12.29 on ubuntu by MrPingouin

MrPingouin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:19:21 +0000

Greetings,

I have at work a Dell Precision 690 that acts as a sambe fileserver (ubuntu 64 bit, 2.6.32 kernel)
It has the SAS 1068E controller, and I put in the box a crucial c300 256 GB.

But when performing read tests on this one (using dd, pv and other tools), I cannot go above 140 MB/s (I should reach 280). Do you think updating the driver will correct this ?

Best regards.

Comment on Replacing munin with ganglia by Rob Flickenger

Rob Flickenger — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:19:41 +0000

This post was a while ago. Are you still diggin’ ganglia?

Comment on Configuring IPMI/BMC on a Dell SC1425 by szabi

szabi — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:17:28 +0000

Thanks for this description.

The following command doesn’t consider the P argument at me, so for security reason don’t enter the -P password tags:

ipmitool -H ipaddress -U root -P password power status

In amy case you wil be prompted for password.

At me is an error message at: sudo ipmitool lan print
FATAL: module lan not found

Comment on LSI mptlinux / mptsas 3.12.29 on ubuntu by nutznboltz

nutznboltz — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:11:49 +0000

mptsas 4.22.00.00-2 for Karmic and Lucid

see comment #20 – #22

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/474207

Comment on LSI mptlinux / mptsas 3.12.29 on ubuntu by nutznboltz

nutznboltz — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:04:08 +0000

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/474207/comments/20

Comment on installing the oniguruma gem on debian/ubuntu by Rob Gough

Rob Gough — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:48:36 +0000

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

(read: You saved me heaps of time, thanks!)

Comment on dell omsa for sas raid on debian etch 64bit by robowarp

robowarp — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:07:04 +0000

with lucid 64 ubuntu server
download libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb
unpack it with dpkg
copy libstdc++.so.5 libstdc++.so.5.0.7 ( one is a symlink )
to /urs/lib restart dellomsa service

Comment on OCS 2007 and Communicator Address Book issues by TraforeL

TraforeL — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:13:24 +0000

Thanks! It solved my problem. Great post.

Comment on HP SMH On Ubuntu Karmic by Mark S

Mark S — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:31:01 +0000

Cheers for this, I had the older utilities installed on a DL380 G3 running Lucid but then found the debs for Jaunty. Installed manually and used the info on this page to get SMH working

Comment on Mounting KVM qcow2 qemu disk images by Fabian Thommen

Fabian Thommen — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:06:30 +0000

It works for me on Ubuntu LTS 10.4! Thanks.

Comment on Mounting KVM qcow2 qemu disk images by qcow2 Disk Image mounten

qcow2 Disk Image mounten — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:56:52 +0000

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Comment on debian ldap nss pam against active directory: I have no name! by Aaron Gember

Aaron Gember — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:31:34 +0000

I have been looking all over for a solution to the password changing issue. Adding the “password sufficient pam_ldap.so” line first in /etc/pam.d/common-password on Ubuntu 10.4 solved the issue. Thanks!

Comment on PXE booting Ubuntu KVM Guests off WDS by Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:12:56 +0000

Man, you made my day. I’ve spent hours trying and finally I found your blog. Great post, thank you for it!!

Comment on Xerox Workcentre Pro: Job must have at least one To: recipient by Sandy Lee

Sandy Lee — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:15:25 +0000

Had the same problem with our WorkCentre copiers. We’re using Exchange Server 2007. We just implemented the Anti-Spam filters on our Exchange Server. In Organization Configuration, go to Hub Transport. We didn’t have Edge Transport available. Within Hub Transport, go to Content Filtering. In the Action tab, set the “Reject messages that have a SCL rating greater than or equal to” to 9. Ours was previously set at 7 which was blocking the mail scans from our WorkCentres.

Thanks so much!

Comment on Configuring ssl requests with SubjectAltName with openssl by Chris J.

Chris J. — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:08:10 +0000

New at this. Not quite clear yet. Trying to add some subjectAltName. Here is my openssl config

[ req ]
default_bits = 1024
distinguished_name = req_DN
prompt = no
[ req_DN ]
countryName = US
stateOrProvinceName = Massachusetts
localityName = Charlestown
0.organizationName = MGH NMR Center
organizationalUnitName = Computing
commonName = NODENAME.DOMAINNAME
emailAddress = systems@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

This works for our single name case and it doesn’t have a x509_extensions section.

What exactly goes where please?

Comment on Comodo is shady by Antiques Collector

Antiques Collector — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:53:52 +0000

It’s my first time to get an SSL Certificate. bought one from namecheap. cost 49$

i forwarded my CSR and bought a dedicated IP. it cost me about 150$.

comodo emailed me asking for whois registrant and some docs that should match the registrant… since my whois is private i made it public. i cancelled my subscription of being private…

I emailed them the documents.. then it came lot of emails from Den S. Madelyn, Karl and etc. asking me different docs… i replied to them providing again and again the docs and then they keep on emailing to forward them neccessary info..

i emailed them again then i add national Id,. then it came another email they don’t accept my docs…

what? that is what you are asking for… and i realized the docs are about 2-4 months ago so i scanned new docs… ( they did not tell me its the reason – they won’t point out why – they just say we don’t accept this kinds of documents)

i emailed them… they are not checking the scanned image, they say… we don;t accept cellphone bill… they did not bother to see my bank statement…

what i provided… my national Id, celphone bill, bank statement and sreenshot of whois..

they said in email atleast to provide a utility bill, ID, bank statement.. i provided the 3…

now they won’t validate it and they are not reading my full email and not checking email attachment

and now again they are asking for my landline bill! I don’t have one… If i provide that in case what would they asked next time my birthday my credit card?? wow comodo… could that be comodo is shady??

I am beginning to think that COMODO Sucks!!! or Comodo support sucks!

namecheap on the other hand has a very good customer support..

I should blog this for everyone trying to buy COMODO SSL check on them first…

Comment on pass the gravy and the arlan by MS

MS — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:37:21 +0000

I STILL HAVE 2 AIRONET ARLAN 631-900/900MHz TOKEN RING ACCESS POINTS UP FOR GRABS. ANY TAKERS? LET ME KNOW. THANKS