The VMware virtual network adapters can make browsing the Network Neighborhood in Windows a total pain. Try using “net view” in a command console (cmd.exe). The command should return results almost immediately. If it takes upwards of a minute, and you have VMware installed, even just the player, then you have this issue. Go to […]
From the manual: This must be done through the host software which takes control of the Z-Stick USB adapter while the Z-Stick is in SerialAPI-Mode. If you have the Danfoss ZWave PC Controller, previously available here, you can use the “Reset Controller” button to do so. This works fine in VMware Player too, so you […]
sshfs is a neat way of mounting a file system from one machine to another over an encrypted ssh channel. However, for machine CLIENT to access a file system that resides on machine HOST, CLIENT must generally be able to log in to HOST. In addition, CLIENT must be able to connect to HOST in […]
The registry on newer Windows systems has access control lists. This means that even if you run regedit.exe as an Administrator, you can still get “Access Denied” trying to erase or alter some keys (CurrentControlSet/Enum/USB comes to mind). The solution to this is to run the registry editor as the “System” account, which can be […]
After having to look this up a third time, I found a post on Vonnie’s blog about it. I made a copy here. In short, Microsoft fucked up and you’re left with the command line to do this, unless the wireless network is in range. The following commands list all the WIFI networks you have […]
It seems VMware has removed the GUI for the disk shrink feature in VMware Tools, but the good news is it’s still available from the console. The following command will shrink the disk image for drive C: “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareToolboxCmd.exe” disk shrink c:\
When changing your password on a samba (Linux) server, the tokens a Windows machine holds get invalidated, yet Windows does not automatically prompt for new credentials. Instead, it consistently says “access denied” when trying to access a previously available share, say, \\myfineserver\share If you previously mapped this drive, disconnecting is trivial in explorer, but if […]
On my Debian KVM hosts, and on the firewalls that guard them, I noticed that every two minutes, plus a couple seconds or so each time, I’d see blocked IGMP packages from 0.0.0.0 to 224.0.0.1. Googling around, I found this post, explaining that it’s the multicast_snooping option for bridge-utils that’s causing it. Being KVM hosts, […]
Programs like virt-manager and gedit commonly use dbus. Dbus running will prevent a clean exit of ssh -X, making it hang on exit until you press ctrl+c or kill dbus manually. To avoid having to kill dbus manually, let’s kill it automatically 🙂 Now, normally if I want to run virt-manager (or anything else graphical) […]
After IE6, usernames and passwords in URL’s are no longer enabled by default in Internet Explorer, the reasoning being that saving usernames and passwords in the browser history and referral headers is a very, very bad idea. Still, it’s sometimes needed, especially when dealing with old IP cameras, which is when I last bumped into […]