How Hardforum saved my life...

So with my new build that is super duper awesome (view here), I have 32GBs of shiny blue ram to match my sexy motherboard. Upon installing the necessary drivers and getting my Windows image all set up, I noticed that it only noticed 16GBs of my ram…I mean SPD info showed they were all there and EVERYTHING!!! it just didn’t want to process the extra as usable;( What changed.? I had performed a BIOS upgrade the night before to make sure everything was cozy and working just right.

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Migrate VM's to another Datastore

So I just launched an ESXi box at work and put in drives after installing vmware and creating 4 virtual machines. I then wanted to move some of the vm’s to a different (bigger) hdd. Here’s how: 1) In vsphere, right click each VM and select “remove from inventory”. 2) Enable SSH login to ESXi by selecting the server, selecting the “Configruation” tab and selecting “Security Profile” in the Software box.

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A beautiful command....

Need to rename files recursively using regex? Thanks to commandlinefu and awesome people, you now can: find . -depth -type f -execdir bash -c ‘a=“{}”;mv -f “$a” ${a//REPLACEME/WITHME}’ \; END OF POST


A world of Possibilities with Xscreensaver..

So do this: apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod This will install the amazing xscreensaver daemon and a crapton of extra awesome screensavers including the BSOD and XMatrix ones. Run “xscreensaver-demo” to load the config dialog box and set your awesome screensavers!! Xscreensaver Manual Then you can make a keyboard short-cut for Super+L that runs “xscreensaver-command -lock” and locks your computer and starts the screensaver!!! (basically what I did as I like Mod4+L (the windows key and L that are closest to each other) to be my shortcut just like in winblows!

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A shell from a tab

So this summer was fun. During my internship at Sentry, I found out that I had no access out on non-default ports. This makes me a sad panda as I use non-standard ports over 1024 for all my ssh servers:( However, the fix is nice and awesome. There is one program I have found that enable you to grab a shell on your server through your web browser. And you don’t need any special plugins or crap like that!

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Create an archive without topdirs from your path

So the title might be misleading but picture this: tar czvf lol.tgz /home/lol/omnom When you run that, it will tar up that directory. It will also put leading directories up to the actual data in the directory you’ve specified. So when you go to extract it to lets say /extract, you’ll get: /home/extract/home/lol/omnom Here is how to avoid that straight from one of my favorite sites: stackoverflow tar -czvf lol.tgz -C /home/lol/omnom .

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Multi-line spacing in Bash

Multiple line spaces in your bash programming can come in handy. Here’s how straight from the awesome that is cyberciti! #!/bin/bash echo “Say Something” <<COMMENT1 your comment 1 comment 2 blah COMMENT1 echo “Do something else”


passwd command problems with LDAP clients

So my users weren’t able to use the passwd command after I implemented LDAP auth on a specific client. Here’s a quick fix to /etc/pam.d/common-password password [success=1 user_unknown=ignore default=die] pam_ldap.so use_authtok try_first_pass Needs to become….. password [success=1 user_unknown=ignore default=die] pam_ldap.so try_first_pass Basically, removing the use*authtok enables the try*first*pass to successfully get processed (i believe, more) *and therefore the passwd command can then properly check the first password you type unlike the error users got before:

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The USB wake up problem

I recently moved into a house and have had to watch my power. So obviously standby mode is a big deal in these parts where college students pay the electric bill with the small amounts of nothing they seem to find themselves holding. In linux, this is not hard to do at all especially since I have ubuntu 12.04 which seems to work great with my hardware. However, I am not able to wake the computer back up with my wireless logitech keyboard or mouse!

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A weird Scheme: sharing a server in a duplex housing unit

Challenge: 1 House (Duplex) 2 Sides 1 Hole in the Basement 2 Different Groups of College students 11 People wanting access 4 Network Ports 1 Server So I live in a duplex and both sides of the house are friends with each other. We all need access to one central server to share certain files as well as stream content etc… Here are some obstacles: 1) both have separate Charter internet connections

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