Enabling PPDS on Lexmark MS510dn

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Enabling Personal Printer Data Stream (PPDS) on a Lexmark MS510dn is pretty well hidden. None of the first two suggestions by Lexmark worked on this model. (Suggestion 1, suggestion 2.) You need to send the printer a PJL command like this one: Why on earth can’t this option be available in the menus with the […]

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NAV, UPS-er og veksling mellom lysnett og dieselaggregater

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Det er sjelden jeg kommenterer noe som ligner på politikk, men mine ord skal handle om teknikk. IKT-direktøren til NAV uttalte til digi.no at overspenning slo ut reserveløsningen, mandag 5. februar 2014. Dette kan tyde på at både lysnettet og dieselaggregatene var tilkoblet UPS-ene. Det er ikke uvanlig at det er overspenning i lysnettet i noen […]

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Disabling IPv6 autoconfiguration in Windows servers

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After long hours of googling at work and at home, I finally arrived at http://www.excaliburtech.net/archives/192, stating this is the way to disable IPv6 autoconfiguration, say when you’re more keen on using a manually configured IPv6 address: netsh interface ipv6 set interface “Local Area Connection” routerdiscovery=disabled

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Store og små leverandører

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Eg jobbar i ein kommune, og ein ting er 100% sikkert: Det er mykje meir trøbbel med store leverandørar enn små. Eg kan ikkje komme på nokon unnatak. Dei små kan tilpasse seg ulike miljø. Dei store krev at miljøet tilpassar seg. Fra http://www.digi.no/926762/vurderer-aa-dumpe-microsoft-office.

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Making a FreeBSD/amd64 XENHVM kernel boot on XenServer 6.2.0

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See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2013-August/001681.html and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2013-August/001683.html. [R]emove [the] DVD device from [the] problem[atic] virtual machine: # xe vm-list params=uuid name-label=”<your-vm-name>” # xe vbd-list empty=true params=uuid vm-uuid=<your-vm-UUID> # xe vbd-destroy uuid=<vbd-UUID> I can confirm the above steps really makes a FreeBSD stable/9 amd64 XENHVM kernel tick on XenServer 6.2.0. stable/10 and head works out of the box without […]

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Replacing the BIOS battery on a HP Compaq Presario CQ56 – a complete disaster from an engineering standpoint

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A student came into my office today and wondered if I could assist him with replacing the BIOS battery on his HP Compaq Presario CQ56 laptop. Sure, I said, not knowing what a daunting task I soon would be facing.

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Dell iDRAC6 and Oracle Java RE 7u51

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The latest Oracle Java RE 7u51 at its normal level of “High” security causes the Dell iDRAC6 virtual console (version 1.95 (Build 05)) to die with this Java trace: java.lang.SecurityException: Missing required Permissions manifest attribute in main jar: https://hostname.some.domain:443/software/avctKVM.jar at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployManifestChecker.verifyMainJar(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployManifestChecker.verifyMainJar(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Simply […]

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