Cygwin stopped being compatible with Windows XP in 2016. Following this post on stackoverflow, you can find the setup files and a (very slow) mirror that’s compatible. I made my own, considerably faster, mirror of the last Windows XP compatible Cygwin release, at http://cygwinxp.cathedral-networks.org/ The mirror date is 2016-08-30, the 30th of August 2016 AD. […]
Repurposing an old developer machine to run some light VM’s, I was tasked with getting Hyper-V Server running on the Asus Maximus V GENE motherboard. Simple enough. Download Hyper-V for free from Microsoft, format a USB stick with FAT32, put all the files from the .ISO on the stick, install. Diskpart Cheat Sheet 1) Open […]
Here are a couple of useful functions I wrote to kill a process tree. It’s useful when dealing with tcpserver, which refuses to disconnect a client for as long as a process it started, or a child of that process, still runs. It’s also good for tackling runaway unintentional fork bombs, rogue daemons and other […]
Telnet servers are everywhere. They are simple, insecure by nature, outdated, and often badly implemented. Let’s do that, shall we? 🙂 TL;DR: Here’s the library. A simple way to make any command line interface listen to incoming TCP connections is tcpserver, provided as part of the ucspi-tcp or ucspi-tcp-ipv6 package on Debian. Using this, we […]
So.. this shit again. # apt-get update Ign http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease Ign http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates Release Ign http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources/DiffIndex Ign http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://ftp.no.debian.org jessie InRelease Ign http://ftp.no.debian.org jessie Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.no.debian.org jessie Release Ign http://ftp.no.debian.org jessie/main Sources/DiffIndex Ign http://ftp.no.debian.org jessie/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease Ign http://security.debian.org […]
From a .deb file: dpkg -i –force-confmiss <package>.deb Or with apt-get: apt-get install –reinstall -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confmiss” <package>
This is basically the same procedure as installing Windows XP on the Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo u9200, in that it needs custom SATA drivers to find the harddisk during install, as well as a bunch of other ones. For this install, I decided to actually create a driver disk, and use a real floppy drive. I […]
I keep having to look these up, especially the “Upgrade Key” at the bottom. So I stored them here. Windows Server 2022 Operating system edition KMS Client Setup Key Windows Server 2022 Datacenter WX4NM-KYWYW-QJJR4-XV3QB-6VM33 Windows Server 2022 Standard VDYBN-27WPP-V4HQT-9VMD4-VMK7H Windows Server 2019 Operating system edition KMS Client Setup Key Windows Server 2019 Datacenter WMDGN-G9PQG-XVVXX-R3X43-63DFG Windows […]