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JeOS: Installing mutt without an Internet connection

Posted by Ivan
/ May 11, 2009 / 1 Comment

I needed to install mutt on my JeOS virtual machine. The system had no Internet connectivity because the machine is sitting behind internal firewall. Mutt is handy little tool for scripting and it allows you attach your files. The files can anything, I will use this tool to email me my mysql database dumps. Download the .deb files: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/mutt/download http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/mutt-patched/download Copy the installation files and install them: dpkg -i mutt_1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu1_i386.deb...
Windows 2003: Shadow Copy volume service failure

Posted by Ivan
/ April 23, 2009 / Leave a comment

I am managing couple of windows file servers and since our last folder migration the Shadow Copy functionality stopped working automatically. Before the migration he server was running as domain controller and file server. The domain controller role was removed and the server become a file server again. When researching Previous Versions issue on the server I found the following error. This problem was reported by a user who tried to restore a...
VMWare: how to set static MAC address ESX?

Posted by Ivan
/ April 21, 2009 / 20 Comments

Last week I planned to migrate some virtual machines running on a VMWare Server 1.x Windows host to aVMWare ESX 3.5i host. One of the vm’s is running as license server and the registration key was registered by using the MAC of the network interface. I had to keep the MAC address of this VM. I first read this post. I tried to manually set the MAC address from VMWare...
Apple: How to reset an iPod Nano 8GB?

Posted by Ivan
/ March 27, 2009 / 21 Comments

My Apple iPod Nano 8GB froze. I connected the iPod to my pc where Apple iTunes was installed. To fix that problem see my instruction below:
Server management: Symantec LiveUpdate

Posted by Ivan
/ March 26, 2009 / Leave a comment

If you are managing Symantec LiveUpdate server and you sized your server diskspace on the save side than you may run into full disk space issues. Example below having the update running for some weeks: Well it happened once that disk size had 34MB left and Symantec was not updating for weeks… Today I created and scheduled a script which runs once a week and deletes all files older than 7...
File server: Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2009 / 2 Comments

If you are managing a Windows Server 2003 file server than this add-on should be installed. Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration makes visible only those files or folders that the user has the rights to access. When Access-based Enumeration is enabled, Windows will not display files or folders that the user does not have the rights to access. This download provides a GUI and a CLI that enables this feature....
Software Packaging: Internet Explorer 8

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2009 / 4 Comments

Here is my script and commands I used to install Internet Explorer 8 with a cmd script. I used this script to perform manual installation but it can also be used to deploy the package with software distribution. IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe /passive /nobackup /norestart The script will install IE, without user interaction, create no uninstall package and does not reboot the system. If you want to hide the installation window add “/quiet”...
Twitter: TweetIE for Internet Explorer

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

CloudBerry TweetIE is a Twitter plug-in for IE CloudBerry Twitter plug-in for IE helps you to post excerpts from the websites you visit with a click of the button and attach a short URL to the source page. Select the text on the web pages and tweet it to your friends Add link to the source with Chilp.It Install in a few minutes Download for free No registration required System...
WordPress: Reset Admin password

Posted by Ivan
/ March 25, 2009 / 1 Comment

At some point I lost my admin account password for a WordPress site. There are several ways to perform a password reset for WordPress. These are my instruction how I reset my “admin” account password for WordPress 2.7.1. How to reset WordPress admin password? Open a linux shell Generare a md5 password by running echo -n password | md5sum Go to phpmyadmin and open your wordpress database Run following sql (please change the database to yours):...
Windows: Internet Explorer 8

Posted by Ivan
/ March 22, 2009 / Leave a comment

Internet Explorer 8 is released to public. I installed recent beta’s of IE 8 and I had some problems with it. Before I installed IE 8 I run one test which I will share below. The result is promising ;-). 10%+ less memory usage by IE 8 when comparing same websites opened in IE 7. I personally would suggest that everyone using Windows should upgrade Internet Explorer to version 8. Why should you upgrade? The new,...