Using an External Floppy Drive to Add Storage Drivers to a Windows Install

When you add your third party storage drivers to a windows install (F6 if you catch it) using a USB floppy sometimes the install will fail after the format stage. At this point it is unable to communicate with the USB floppy even though it initially could. You can help it by adding the following to your ‘textsetup.oem’: id = USB\VID_03F0&PID_2001, usbstor #–HPid = USB\VID_054C&PID_002C, usbstor #–Sonyid = USB\VID_057B&PID_0001, usbstor #–Y-E Dataid = USB\VID_0409&PID_0040, usbstor #–NECid = USB\VID_0424&PID_0FDC, usbstor #–SMSCid = USB\VID_08BD&PID_1100, usbstor #–Iomegaid = USB\VID_055D&PID_2020, usbstor #–Samsung This will give windows a nudge in the right direction.
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Changing the VLAN Tag for an Existing ESX Service Console

Once you have made network changes (802.1Q) and you have lost (oops) connectivity to your service console, use the following to change the VLAN tag: esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v N -p Service Console Where N is the VLAN tag you want to use. In this case it was vSwitch with the portgroup name Service Console. To list the current configuration use: esxcfg-vswitch -l
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Adding a Port Group and Setting the VLAN tag from the Service Console in ESX

Use the following: esxcfg-vswitch -A "Port Group Name" vSwitch2 && esxcfg-vswitch -v N -p "Port Group Name" vSwitch2 Where N is the VLAN tag.
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Checking for Mangled Attributes in Windows 2000 Forests with Adfind

From link: The Microsoft Exchange 2000 schema defines three non-Request for Comments (RFC)-compliant attributes: houseIdentifier, Secretary, and labeledURI. The Microsoft Windows 2000 InetOrgPerson Kit redefines the Secretary attribute and the labeledURI attribute. The adprep /forestprep command in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has redefined all three attributes as described in Request for Comments (RFC) 2798. If Exchange 2000 created these three attributes before you ran the Windows 2000 InetOrgPerson Kit, the LdapDisplayName attribute for the houseIdentifier attribute becomes conflicted or mangled after the new RFC-compliant definitions are added by Windows Server 2003 adprep /forestprep replication.
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Stopping MIB Module Errors When Starting Wireshark in os x

If you get the following error on startup when starting wireshark on macos: The following errors were found while loading the MIBS …….. Then add this path to the ‘name resolution’ setting under edit > preferences: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ Make sure to apply the change before you exit.
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Installing Package Groups in Ubuntu Server

To re-run the package group selection from the Ubuntu server installation use: sudo tasksel If you want to view the avalable tasks use: sudo tasksel –list-tasks Just make sure you have the install CD in.
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Finding Group Membership from Active Directory with Dsquery

Use the following: dsquery user -samid "username" | dsget user -memberof -expand The -expand option will include nestled groups.
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Converting Wma to Mp3

This is easy with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i source_file.wma -ab 128k output_filen.mp3 Where the -ab is the bitrate.
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Flushing the DNS Cache in OS X and Linux

In Leopard do: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache In Linux (Ubuntu): sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart Update: In OS X Yosemite: sudo discoveryutil mdnsflushcache In OS X Mavericks, Lion, Mountain Lion: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
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Adding a VLAN Adapter in OS X

Using the Network Preferences GUI you can add a VLAN tag network interface:
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