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Fixing extremely slow domain logon windows 7

I just installed two Windows 7 machines and both of them take a very long time to logon to the (samba) domain controller. I've found several reports on the internet about people with the same issue. This was one of the pages I found. I tried it and it works. It says: Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 17, 2010, at 22:03 | No comments

Windows domains: De opgegeven referenties zijn strijdig met de bestaande groep referenties

I was trying to add a Windows 2000 machine to our domain, but I got this message (in Dutch, unfortunately): Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 17, 2010, at 18:03 | No comments

Installing Samba from lenny-backports

With our new Windows 7 machines, we need at least samba 3.3.7. However, our server with Debian stable doesn't have that in its repository. So, I was forced to install samba with lenny-backports. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 17, 2010, at 12:03 | No comments

Creating new MySQL database and user

I often need to make a MySQL database and a user that can do anything in it: create database bla character set utf8; create user 'jack'@'localhost' identified by 'password'; use bla grant all on bla.* to 'jack'@'localhost' identified by 'password'; Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 16, 2010, at 12:03 | No comments

OpenDNS servers

I've had to deal with crappy DNS servers quite a lot; servers that don't resolve certain sites, servers that take endlessly, etc. Therefore, using OpenDNS can be a good solution. The IP addresses for OpenDNS are (including /etc/resolv.conf directives): Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 16, 2010, at 10:03 | No comments

Command line mistakes

Here's a nice post by Vivek Gite about ten of his biggest command line mistakes. The comments are good too.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on March 13, 2010, at 21:03 | No comments

Playdar

One of these days, I want to play with Playdar, a “Music Content Resolver”.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on March 13, 2010, at 21:03 | No comments

MediaWiki Semantic Google Maps and Semantic Layers merged into one

While upgrading my MediaWiki installation, I noticed that my trusted, old Semantic Google Maps has been replaced by what seems to be the successor of what I considered the promising Semantic Layers extension. The new extension is simply called Semantic Maps.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on March 07, 2010, at 20:03 | No comments

MediaWiki thumb.php and rewrite rules

May, last year, I created an empty draft for this post, because, around that time, I had gone through quite some effort before I got thumbnails for foreign file repos working just right. Now, I'm taking a dive into my MediaWiki working dirs in preparation of the creation of a separate development environment, so it's a good moment to rehash the past experience (almost as good as when I'd have done it right away). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on March 07, 2010, at 20:03 | No comments

Enabling mplayers multithreading for HD video.

Certain codecs support multithreaded decoding, but you have to configure it, though. You can do that by adding this to your mplayer.conf: Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on February 28, 2010, at 15:02 | No comments