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Migrating UFS filesystem from one disk to another
I needed to migrate an UFS filesystem from one disk to another. I had several options including using two tar processes in a pipeline or using dump and restore in a pipeline. I opted for the latter to make sure everything got preserved during the transfer. Here’s the sequence of commands where /dev/gpt/nroot0 is the […]
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I need to remind myself of running the IPP webpage in compatiblity mode in IE11 when installing printers. Even if you specify ipp.FQDN, IE11 will kindly enter your FQDN into the list of domain names to show in compatibility mode. Remember to remove FQDN from that list when you’re done. iPrint client 5.99 seems to […]
Read More → Micro Focus (Novell) iPrint on Windows 7Using QoS for blocking BitTorrent on Catalyst 4500E Sup8E
NBAR2 on Sup8E can assist in blocking BitTorrent. While somewhat useful, BitTorrent is mostly used for downloading pirated movies, and BitTorrent off someone’s ADSL line is usually dead slow. Create a class map and a policy map as shown below, and attach that policy map to your ingress interfaces, and BitTorrent should be blocked. class-map […]
Read More → Using QoS for blocking BitTorrent on Catalyst 4500E Sup8EConnecting to guest-access allowed, readonly Samba shares
Sometimes security is on the border of being ridiculous. Modern Windows 10 is very anxious when connecting to guest-access allowed, readonly Samba shares, Here’s how to allow “insecure” guest logons for stand-alone computers. The same is true when configuring a GPO. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046019/guest-access-smb2-disabled-by-default-in-windows-10-server-2016.
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If technologists do not speak up to educate policymakers, bad policy will result, and we will have to live with it. —Margaret Martonosi, Comm. ACM, 2018-05, vol. 61, no. 5.
Read More → Educate the policymakersefi_max_resolution needed on base/head for UEFI systems without FHD displays
r331464 added efi_max_resolution. If you run base/head on monitors without Full HD (FHD), then you might need to specify your desired resolution in /boot/loader.conf. This should suffice for a resolution of 1280×1024 on 19 inches displays.
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Kernel panic due to memory corruption
This is what a kernel panic may look like when facing memory corruption.
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It’s winter break, giving me time to bring systems down for their much needed maintenance. One of my tasks was to upgrade our XenServers. They’re not joined to the same pool for historical reasons. One of them is close to 8 years old, the other one is fairly new. For the first server I chose […]
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While trying to log in on our Novell servers using Client for OES 2 SP4 IR7a on Windows 10 1709, I was greeted with: A required network service has not started. Please check your error log for details. The third reply of this post gave me a clue, simply run setup.exe one more time and […]
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I’m experimenting further with ports-mgmt/synth. I let synth create some packages for me and I then removed all installed packages, save the pkg package manager. What a surprise I got when attempting to add my own metaport!
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