I just found vi reference from Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) 🙂 Nice piece of memorabilia as well as handy reference for vi beginners.

For testing purposes I deployed Microsoft AppV infrastructure.

Systems presented on diagram above:

• Core-DC-01 – Domain Controller – deployed prior to AppV installation
• Core-SQL-01 – SQL Server – deployed prior to AppV installation
• AppV-SRV-01 – AppV Management Server
• AppV-WKS-01 – AppV Sequencer Workstation

Installation process for systems listed above below.

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Using any of the iDevices with PC computer with Windows 7 will enfornce us to use iTunes as application which can synchronize content of a device with PC, backup device to the computer, etc. By default iTunes will create all folders for content synchronization between PC and iDevice on C: drive. However, sometimes this might be inconvinient, especially if someone has multiple partitions on hard disk dedicated for certain type of content. Also, when number of applications, music files and movies is growing on iDevice iTunes can consume lot of space, so this might be reasonable to move iTunes content to another partition or disk on our system. I will show quick way how ot make iTunes data move smooth and transparent for our device.

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Recently I was wondering how to list all available drives in Windows 7 PE Command Prompt. That happened to me when stuck in PXE boot command prompt window trying to find out what letter is assigned to USB stick I just plugged in. It looks like it’s not quite straightforward activity 🙂

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Just released small app for Android platform. This app allows to decrypt type 7 password from Cisco devices as well as passwords from Cisco VPN profiles (PCF files).

Password which can be recovered using this app:

• wireless keys fro Cisco access points,
• RADIUS/TACACS shared secrets
• NTP authentication keys
• Enable passwords (NOT enable secrets, which are stored using MD5)
• enc_GroupPwd – VPN group password from PCF file
• enc_UserPassword – VPN user password from PCF file

You can find app in Google Play:

Default driver for Linksys WUSB100 Ver.2 doesn’t work on Windows 7 64-bit. Instead  of that Ralink USB RT2870 (currently MediaTek) driver can be used.

Properly working driver can be found here.

By default when I installed mysql on openSUSE, root password for mysql access was blank. First thing then is to change password as this might pose security issue. First of all login to openSUSE using root account and then:

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Set of screenshots from old archives. It shows how to setup DAG on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.

If there will be interest in that subject I will put some description around that, just request that in comments.

Otherwise, enjoy step-by-step screenshot guide for DAG on Exchange 2010

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Once Parsoid is installed on openSUSE it might be handy to have is started automatically once system is restarted.

First we have to create startup script.

/etc/init.d/parsoid

#!/bin/sh

#
# description: Node.js /srv/parsoid/api/server.js
#

. /etc/rc.status

USER="root"

DAEMON="/usr/bin/node"
ROOT_DIR="/srv/parsoid/api"
LOG_ROOT="/var/log/nodejs"

SERVER="$ROOT_DIR/server.js"
LOG_FILE="$LOG_ROOT/parsoid.log"

LOCK_FILE="/var/lock/subsys/node-server"

WORKERS_NUMBER=8

do_start()
{
if [ ! -f "$LOCK_FILE" ] ; then
echo -n $"Starting $SERVER: "
runuser -l "$USER" -c "$DAEMON $SERVER -n $WORKERS_NUMBER >> $LOG_FILE &" && echo || echo
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $LOCK_FILE
else
echo "$SERVER is locked."
RETVAL=1
fi
}
do_stop()
{
echo -n $"Stopping $SERVER: "
pid=`ps -aefw | grep "$DAEMON $SERVER" | grep -v " grep " | awk '{print $2}'`
kill -9 $pid > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo || echo
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $LOCK_FILE
}

case "$1" in
start)
do_start
;;
stop)
do_stop
;;
restart)
do_stop
do_start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
RETVAL=1
esac

exit $RETVAL

Once startup script is in place we have to enable Parsoid to be automatically started:

chkconfig parsoid on

From now on Parsoid will be automatically started after each restart.