So, you screwed up. Package is in a very bad inconsistent state – you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: <package> Here’s how to force the removal of that package: dpkg –remove –force-remove-reinstreq <package>
On a box I just upgraded, we run a script that’s supposed to add a new scheduled task. After the upgrade, attempting to create a new trigger would return this beauty: PS C:\Users\User> New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -AtStartup New-ScheduledTaskTrigger : Method “NewTriggerByStartup” not found + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (PS_ScheduledTask:Root/Microsoft/…S_ScheduledTask) [New-ScheduledTaskTrigger], CimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80041002,New-ScheduledTaskTrigger The solution […]
Disable the lock screen, always showing a login prompt: Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) => Computer Configuration => Administrative Templates => Control Panel => Personalization => Do not display the lock screen Disallow the use of OneDrive: Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) => Computer Configuration => Administrative Templates => Windows Components => OneDrive => Prevent the usage […]
I recently had a need to do this at work, and was told by various forum posts and ##pfsense on freenode that it wasn’t a good idea and wasn’t possible. Well, we needed it anyway, so time to do some hacking 😀 Here’s the script I came up with. It employs tcpdump and tcpreplay to […]
Just for personal reference USE [mydb] GO WHILE(EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE=’FOREIGN KEY’)) BEGIN DECLARE @sql0 NVARCHAR(2000) SELECT TOP 1 @sql0=(‘ALTER TABLE [‘ + TABLE_SCHEMA + ‘].[‘ + TABLE_NAME + ‘] DROP CONSTRAINT [‘ + CONSTRAINT_NAME + ‘]’) FROM information_schema.table_constraints WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE = ‘FOREIGN KEY’ EXEC (@sql0) PRINT @sql0 END GO DECLARE @sql1 NVARCHAR(2000) […]
Boldly stolen from David Champion at the University of Chicago, and archived for personal reference. All credits to that page. kpartx will scan a block device — e.g., your /dev/loop0 — and create device-mapped specials under /dev/mapper for the partitions. Then you can address individual partitions. (N.B.: When done, before you can losetup -d the […]
I stumbled upon this great tool to set all the relevant registry entries (WTF?) to allow only the cryptographic algorithms that are considered secure to be negotiated with the server. I archived it here (CLI version), for my personal reference, but if you prefer (and you should, frankly) you can get it from the author’s […]
This is so damn useful to turn on and off remote displays through SSH, for wall-mounted information screens and similar. Available in your friendly neighbourhood Linux distribution. VBETOOL(1) User Commands VBETOOL(1) NAME vbetool – run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state SYNOPSIS vbetool [[vbestate save|restore]|[vbemode set|get]|[vgamode]|[dpms on|off|standby|suspend|reduced]|[post [romfile]]|[vgastate on|off]|[vbefp pan‐ elid|panelsize|getbrightness|setbrightness|invert]] DESCRIPTION vbetool […]
I got this error message on the internal.server.host when forwarding an URL from an extrernal HTTP server to an internal HTTPS server: AH02032: Hostname internal.server.host provided via SNI and hostname external.server.host provided via HTTP are different The problem turned out to be that the internal server was trusting the external one’s X-Forwarded- headers, a feature […]
So the VM is using too much space, and the disk image needs to grow. Previously I used dd with a bunch of options to do this. However, the truncate tool makes the whole ordeal a lot easier. A simple command, such as the following, will grow the file disk.img by 10 gigabytes: truncate -s […]