Computers

My computer @ work, 7.5 terabytes

My computer @ work, 7.5 terabytes

2 750G and 4 1.5G drives

It's temporary but it is still fun to brag

Installed the Tweet Me Drupal module

Now the whole world can see how little traffic my website gets

http://drupal.org/project/tweetbutton

Netra T1 and Debian

Finally after 9 months of sitting on my shelf we finally spent a little time getting my Sun Netra T1 up and running


colonel@netrat1:~$ uptime
09:20:38 up 8 min, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.31, 0.16
colonel@netrat1:~$ uname -a
Linux netrat1 2.6.26-2-sparc64 #1 Tue Mar 9 22:14:38 UTC 2010 sparc64 GNU/Linux
colonel@netrat1:~$

iPad

iPad

Not mine

New Toy

New Toy

WD TV Live Baby Live

Howto gzip to different directory

gzip -c file > /tmp/file.gz

I never remember this, I always have to look it up

Create an SSL Certificate

openssl req -new -x509 -days 0 -keyout private/postfix.pem -out postfix.pem

How to Save a 120G tar file, well most of it

We could extract a small part of the file with 'tar xvf file.tar' but we would get a 'tar: Skipping to next header' before it would reach the directory we wanted.

Off to: http://aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/2646.html
and get the find_tar_headers.pl script, because of the number of files in our tar file we saved the output from find_tar_headers.pl into a text file so we could search it later. Found the starting point of the directory we are looking for, and use bc

bc 1.06.94
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
scale=4
43618577409/1024
42596267.0009

Run the dd command

dd if=file.tar of=file-tail.tar bs=1k skip=42596267

Tar still didn't work because the file was not recognized as a tar file

file file.tar
file.tar: data

Next is cpio

cpio -ivd -H tar < file-tail.tar

And we got our directory back

Windows server 2008 All User Directories

Trying to change the default and all users desktop and start menu, which isn't hard once you find them

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

http://blogs.technet.com/peterfi/archive/2008/02/24/modifying-the-all-us...

No more writable valid tape found

I was going to go for a walk but then the email pops up
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found].
So much for the walk