Here’s my notes for ZFS root installation with FreeBSD 8.1. (amd64 on my system) Boot up the FreeBSD install disk, you’ll need one with the Fixit system. In the examples listed, I had 2 disks, ad4 and ad6. Yours may be different, replace as necessary. 1. Add the modules on […]
Tried to manually setup my disks in order to install root FreeBSD on a ZFS mirror, but following the how-to’s available, I couldn’t get pass the first command. gpart create -s gpt ad0 geom ‘ad0’: File exists I tried deleting the partitions/slices, even doing a “dd of=/dev/null†on my […]
sed -i ’53d’ ~/.ssh/known_hosts Run in your home directory. Replace “53” with the line number referred to in the known_hosts error from the ssh login attempt. You need the “d”. If you had line 12, then you’ll show ’12d’ in that sed command.
I am always getting ideas, and this might be a cool one. I want a new Facebook. I want to make my own version of it. Only, not centrally controlled, and not a direct single-place-to-go site to be social. Why? Because I foresee a downfall. And because Facebook, if its […]
Had a fun time today cleaning off some trojans and rootkits.  On this one client system, while trying to go online, the Internet  turned into the Inertnet! (Hahahha! I love that one!)  As usual, I have lots of ideas why, but no real evidence and clients saying “I don’t know […]
I only need to update this once in a while, but twice now I’ve forgotten what to run after an update to /etc/login.conf. Run this: cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
Well, if you’re like me, you probably love Google Chrome browser. And although the latest version of Firefox (3.6) is much improved in speed, it launches fast and browses quick, I still like Chrome better now that I am used to it. Especially now that it’s got my two favorite […]
I had a client recently that had their browsers hijacked. Everything they typed in the browser ended up redirecting them to some test_s.php file at “www.fes.skâ€. (Don’t open that, or you might end up with a virus! I just wanted people to find this in case it might help clean […]
Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe – Antimalware service executable using high CPU Time I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, but I think this might be problem in any version. I keep having issues with Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe using high CPU Time and hogging the cpu.  Basically, using a large amount of resources, like […]
So I never took the time to look these up, but I just heard about them recently. I always wanted to know how to create a new folder in Windows Explorer without having to use menu’s, by just using a keyboard shortcut. In the right side of the Explorer window, […]
I was not able to access a newly joined Windows 7 computer on our domain from our Windows 2000 Server. I just received that error. “Cannot perform the requested operation†Sharing was setup ok, permissions and security set ok, firewall was turned off. I saw an Event ID 2017 on […]
Get the test commands available: get-help test* Should list out the tests available to you. Test overall system health: test-systemhealth Check Outlook Web services: test-outlookwebservices –identity:amailblox@organization.com | fl (note the “fl†at the end, helps reading output, otherwise it will not wrap the lines)