Archive for May, 2011

29 May
2011

Dracut: add drivers to your initrd

My HP 8150w laptop has this neat lis3lv02d accelerometer to be able to detect when it's falling and to park the harddisk to prevent damage. I use this instrument to detect whether I'm on the road or at the office. This way, I can set preferences at boot-time, even before

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28 May
2011

Find the Dell Service Tag Remotely

Windows with VNC/RDP

If you can login to the computer over VNC or RDP, you can use wmic to find the service tag: start > run > cmd On the command line, enter: wmic bios get serialnumber

Windows without VNC/RDP

If you cannot login to the computer over VNC or

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25 May
2011

Lovelock: Mozilla as default browser from Thunderbird

Last week, I upgraded to Fedora 15 (codename: Lovelock). One of the new annoying "features" is that Google Chrome somehow got to be the default browser when I click a link from Firefox. I Google'd around, and couldn't find how to fix it. So I decided to … Read more

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7 May
2011

Native IPv6: First steps

Today I made my first native IPv6 connection. I've been running Teredo/Miredo on my laptop for quite a while now, and I thought it was time to get a real IPv6 connection. I could use IPv6 autoconfiguration, but on a server you need a fixed IP.

Needed software

Install required

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6 May
2011

Firewall your Exchange 2007 server

Software that is not reachable, can't be hacked. Easy as that. So if you have an cloud-based anti-spam/anti-virus filter, you can block your smtp server for badguys. In my situation, I'm using a Windows 2008 SBS server with Exchange 2007.
  1. Start wf.msc
  2. Go to inbound rules
  3. Find MSExchangeTransportWorker and

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1 May
2011

Run a batch file invisibly

Save this one line of text as c:\windows\quiet.vbs CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False To run a batch file invisibly, start it using the following command: wscript.exe "C:\windows\quiet.vbs" "C:\path\file.bat" © GeekLabInfo

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