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Author Archives: admin
Windows Server 2008 r2 Domain Controller boots into Active Directory Repair
Problem! My Windows 2008 R2 DC (the only one) boots into Active Directory Repair mode. Now I can’t log in, because the Active Directory services aren’t started. I can’t even restart the system correctly, running as a VMware virtual machine, … Continue reading
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Stacking some images with convert
Today I remembered I was reading on the web, somewhere I don’t remember, someone asked about stacking images that were grabbed from a webcam into one file, to create a kind of ghost effect. Playing around with ffmpeg and convert … Continue reading
linux ssh access to Zyxel NSA 320
Thanks to the guys over at NAS-central, who document their stuff well, I can now use my Zyxel NSA 320 directly on the network, over secure shell. In my case this is handy because I can now easily backup the … Continue reading
Convert PDF using linux
Convert at it again. I think I have posted something like this before, but ‘convert’ keeps being an amazing tool. Today converting Pdf’s into png picture format with: > convert -density <density in DPI> input.pdf -quality <quality ratio> output.png E.g. … Continue reading
Looking for multimedia files [list of common multimedia files] -> solution? powershell!
Sometimes as system administrator, you find your file servers are cluttered with stuff you may want to decide to do something about, say, export to the final bin. However the case, you want to know what’s there. [and it is … Continue reading
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Nagios 3.4.1 Columns in status.cgi
That wasn’t nice. Nagios has 3 columns as a default hard coded inside its status.cgi. Today we have such wide screens to display things with… In order to change this default behaviour of old code, in nagios, change the following: … Continue reading
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LDAP Configuration for HP Printers and Active Directory
I had to figure out how to configure LDAP on these HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M476 series with LDAP support. The LDAP configuration was a tad bit different than I suspected. For some reason the SSL function didn’t work, … Continue reading
OWA: Blocking Microsoft Internet Explorer
Internet explorer has a leak, and now you don’t trust it for people to logon to your OWA. (Outlook Web Access). You may want to block OWA to be used with Internet Explorer. To achieve this, I did the following: … Continue reading
Ricoh and LDAP with Active Directory
Ricoh Multifunctionals working with LDAP to an Active Directory are fun! When it works. I ran into a problem with Ricoh Multifunctionals and the connection to an LDAP server. If you do too at some point run into trouble setting … Continue reading
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Windows, VMware virtualisation & networking hardware
When you’ve just virtualised a hardware server to a VMWare environment, and you have trouble getting networking to function again, try the following: … This post has been moved to this page
Convert is cool once more
Got some PDF’s from a customer today. I need to convert these into images, since the program I use for wifi measurement does not accept PDF’s. Found the free solution of course, using linux. convert -density 300 -trim test.pdf -quality 100 … Continue reading
Using Raspi and MPD as home audio player
Today I installed a raspberrypi as home player using the Music Player Daemon [mpd] again, instead of that old laptop, I might save some power. Here’s what I did. [post moved to page]
Using mopidy on debian, playing your spotify premium account with your MPD client.
Nice, I play spotify premium streaming audio using mopidy on debian now 🙂 I approximately did this: I got debian debian-6.0.7-i386-netinst [I have to add though that this configuration can almost be applied to ubuntu as well, note that I … Continue reading
Root your nas!
Finally got around to root my nas, I actually need a new one, that, and I removed the casing a long time ago for the odd reason to remove the blue led. Failure was an option anyway. It’s a LaCie … Continue reading
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