I always forget this so I wanted to put here where I’ll also forget about it. You should be able to tell from the font that I ripped this from Technet.
set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
start devmgmt.msc
Showing Hidden Devices in Device Manager
March 8th, 2010set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
start devmgmt.msc
Melody Davidson
March 1st, 2010Is it just me or does this chick look a lot like Larry Bird? http://www.dlisted.com/node/36161
Couple of handy links
December 4th, 2009Here’s a couple of links for you technical people out there.
Whenever you need to send a Google answer to someone, do it visually: http://lmgtfy.com/
If you’re curious if the website is down for everyone or if it’s just your connection: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
xRDP
November 18th, 2009How to install RDP (Remote Desktop) on a Linux box
cd /root
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xrdp/xrdp/0.4.1/xrdp-0.4.1.tar.gz?use_mirror=surfnet
tar -xvzf xrdp-0.4.1.tar.gz
cd xrdp-0.4.1
tar -xvzf xrdp-0.4.1.tar.gz
cd xrdp-0.4.1
make
make install
cp /usr/local/xrdp/xrdp_control.sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/xrdpd
chkconfig –level 35 xrdpd on
service xrdpd start
cp /usr/local/xrdp/xrdp_control.sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/xrdpd
chkconfig –level 35 xrdpd on
service xrdpd start
Connect to the server using mstsc. I’ve tested it on Fedora Core 3 and CentOS 5.3 x64 so I assume it will work on everything in between. Works better than VNC.
2012
November 18th, 2009
Good flick. I went into it knowing the runlength, I’d heard mixed reviews from people, and I wasn’t set on the actors in the show, but I was quite surprised. The CGI in the movie is incredible and more than made up for the acting. The plot was solid and the movie should make back it’s cost because not everyone understands what 12/21/2012 is all about. Now I’m going back into my bunker because I’ll never have 1 Billion Euro.
Another Ho-Hum Day
November 18th, 2009Not much new lately, found another bone in a piece of food. It happens about every other week to me. Yesterday it was a Hardee’s Hot Ham-n-Cheese. Go figure what a bone was doing in there. This one was pretty big, probably a 1/4″ x 1/4″. I’d take a picture, but the iPhone camera is the suck.
Cool Tool of the Day
November 4th, 2009Ok, so you’ve done you search for files in Windows when you realize you can’t save or export the results. Infuriating, I know. Here’s the info on SysExporter, right from their site:
SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.
Run your search, then run SysExporter and go through the “Search Results” options is finds in memory (for me the actual Results were the last option) and then save your results. Very cool application, highly recommended if only for this one feature. Check it out: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sysexp.html
Add Boot Delay to VMware Virtual Machine
October 26th, 2009If you’re like me then you hate it when you have to either go into the BIOS of a VM or make it boot to a CD. You’re given so little time to press the ‘F2′ or ’ESC’ keys that it invariably takes you several times to actually do so successfully. I found this line to add to your VMX file so you can give yourself more time.
bios.bootdelay = “3000″
In this instance I’m telling it to wait 3 seconds before booting the VM. My life is instantly easier.
Christmas in September?
September 23rd, 2009WTH Bobby? A local radio station has been playing Christmas music this week. It’s not even October yet!
Intel’s funny
September 17th, 2009They can fix this:
[Fix] Intel® Server System S7000FC4UR SAS riser with an iBBU may
not keep cache data valid during a power failure
But not this:
[No Fix] Date in System Event Log (SEL) is one day ahead