Be careful of installing Google Chrome on a Windows XP computer with an Intel 915i graphics card on board. I ran into an odd problem at a client, who had recently installed it. Occassionally, the system would bail out with a BSOD, and a vague error code. At first, I suspected a hardware problem, but letting WinDbg loose on the minidump file revealed the true culprit.
Apparently, there's a conflict between the graphics driver of the Intel 915 and Chrome, causing the BSOD. A detailed analysis in WinDbg revealed the causing program as chrome.exe. See the attached text file for a full log of the problem.
The client stopped using Chrome, and his odd BSODs went away.
A full listing for the analogue cable frequencies for the distributor Telenet, can be found here: http://www.zenders.be/.
This list is currently only available for Belgium; the website's in Dutch.
Funny guys over at Belgacom. Their B-Box status page shows this as line status for a VDSL connection:
This package provides files to enable syntax highlighting in nano when editing shorewall configuration files, making it easier to maintain these kinds of files.
For a shell script to determine its own location, you can use this code snippet. It takes relative and absolute paths into account.
#!/bin/bash if [[ $0 == '/'* ]]; then MYLOCATION="`dirname $0`" else MYLOCATION="`pwd`"/"`dirname $0`" fi echo "My location is: $MYLOCATION"
If for some reason you lost your SSH server keys, sshd will fail to start with error:
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
You can recreate your host keys with these commands:
ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
After recreating the keys, you will probably have to let your clients know as with the change of keys, they'll probably get warnings about it (Linux SSH will not even connect until you kick out the old keys).
A summary of this year's soaring camp, well, sort of...
Microsoft has a free edition of Microsoft Expression, which has the basic functionality of creating screencasts. This way you can create screencasts, and encode them to WMV (or to Silverlight). The free edition is limited to 10 minutes per clip, but this should be adequate for simple short clips.
Microsoft Expression Encoder can be downloaded from the Expression website: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/; scroll to the bottom to find it.
It never was easier to get rid of those pesky ads in Windows Live Messenger. Simply download A-patch: http://apatch.org/.
The latest MIBs for APC's PowerNet SNMP is available here:
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