Getting the Linux guest host to use the same network adapter as windows requires you to create a virtual interface and then bridging it to your physical interface. Pretty interesting stuff.
Good for a home machine.
You can configure Windows XP to automate the logon process if your computer is not part of a domain.
This is a very handy wordpress plugin to have pages and posts link to a different url.
Page Links To is a plugin that allows you to make certain WordPress pages or posts link to a URI of your choosing, instead of their WordPress page or post URI.
Windows services that wont die are listed as ‘Stopping’ in the Services console. This is how to forcibly kill a service:
sc queryex SMTPSvc
taskkill /PID 388 /F
Source: Killing a Windows Service that seems to hang on “Stopping” – B# .NET Blog
My LAN connection has been dog slow since day one with vista. I figured it’d be some new ‘feature’ thats killing it. Looks like I was right.
The synopsis is that their appears to be a problem with Vista being too smart for it’s own good, with the addition of the “Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level” setting in the TCP/IP stack.
Disabling this setting fixed the timeout problem in FF2 and Windows Live Writer on my machine. Make sure you’re running as an Administrator (can open a command window as Administrator) and execute the following command at the prompt:
“netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled”
Changing “disabled” to “normal” will re-enable this setting, should you want to turn it back on again. The following command will list the status of the current TCP settings:
“netsh interface tcp show global
Source: Software/Technology Discussion : Vista, Firefox 2, Slow Network
Works in cygwin as well. Bye bye old logs.
find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Source: Delete Files Older Than x Days on Linux :: the How-To Geek
How to get VMWare player running a fresh OS install.
The trick to getting more out the VMWare Player and VMWare Server than a few premade images is actually two-fold, let me guide you through the process of almost getting a free VMWare Workstation replacement.
Step 1
configure terminal
Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
snmp-server community string [view view-name] [ro | rw] [access-list-number]
Configure the community string.
- For string, specify a string that acts like a password and permits access to the SNMP protocol. You can configure one or more community strings of any length.
- (Optional) For view, specify the view record accessible to the community.
- (Optional) Specify either read-only (ro) if you want authorized management stations to retrieve MIB objects, or specify read-write (rw) if you want authorized management stations to retrieve and modify MIB objects. By default, the community string permits read-only access to all objects.
- (Optional) For access-list-number, enter an IP standard access list numbered from 1 to 99 and 1300 to 1999.
Step 3
access-list access-list-number {deny | permit} source [source-wildcard]
Step 4
end
Step 5
show running-config
Step 6
copy running-config startup-config
(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.
When the physical connection is in place, configure the terminal application program on the PC with the following COM settings:
- 9600 bps
- 8 data bits
- No parity
- 1 stop bit
- No flow control
Handy if you want one client to download all mail and get only recent mail on your phone.
the Gmail pop will only download once but you can used the recent command to get the last 30 days emails.For all other POP clients, replace ‘username@ gmail.com’ in your POP client settings with ‘recent:username@ gmail.com’.
Source: How to re-download a message from the server using pop – POP and Forwarding | Google Groups