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 They are simple, insecure by nature, outdated, and often badly implemented.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>
Reinstalling Windows XP on an ancient (well, vintage 2009) laptop recently, I suddenly remembered how much I hated the “Favorites” button that’s stuck on the favorites bar and shows you your favorites when you click it, just as the bar already does. This thing: While the rest of the crap, such as the favorites, the […]
These are apparently slowly disappearing from the intertubes. This is my attempt at archiving them. -> DOWNLOAD HERE <- Included PowerToys: Alt-Tab Replacement Task Switcher replaces the simpler Alt-Tab switcher with a more visual one which shows live window previews. CD Slide Show Generator generates a slideshow from photos burned to a CD. ClearType Tuner […]
When setting up jails, I commonly end up with structures like this in my /etc/fstab: /dev /jail/test/dev auto bind 0 0 /dev/pts /jail/test/dev/pts auto bind 0 0 /dev/shm /jail/test/dev/shm auto bind 0 0 /proc /jail/test/proc auto bind 0 0 /sys /jail/test/sys auto bind 0 0 /dev /jail/test2/dev auto bind 0 0 /dev/pts /jail/test2/dev/pts auto bind […]
On a Windows machine, you can normally use Start => Run => control userpasswords2 to enable automatic login for a given user when the system boots. On computers that are part of a domain, this is not the case. However, while the functionality is removed from the user interface when you join a domain, it […]
The tempdb database often won’t just shrink when you ask it to, through SSMS or otherwise. Apparently, Sql Server holds on to it for its cache entries. To shrink the table anyway (and have the cache reload), this should do: DBCC FREEPROCCACHE DBCC FREESYSTEMCACHE (‘ALL’) DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (‘tempdb’, 0) Enjoy 🙂
This happened on a few machines I am responsible for, after the upgrade to Windows 10. You click “Start”, type “updates”, it suggests “Check for Updates” in the “Settings” app, you click <enter> and it opens an empty settings window with no search results. Great. After looking around for a while, I stumbled over the […]