>NIL:'s Techno Feats
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2012-06-29
Reseting NTFS ownership and attributes after a Windows reinstallation
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Let's say you had to reinstal Windows 7, due to Microsoft having screwed so bad with its automatic update installer that it was the only...
Securely erasing a drive in Linux
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Now ain't that useful. From time to time you have to part with an old disk, but of course, you're rather make sure it is properly er...
2012-06-26
Setting passwords /etc/shadow
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If you ever need to edit /etc/shadow to add an MD5 password manually (yes, this can happen for very legitimate reasons): # openssl passwd ...
2012-05-29
(Re)installing OpenWRT on a WRT54G
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Every once in a while, I find that I want to upgrade my WRT54G in a clean fashion. And every once in a while, it's a massive struggle to...
2012-01-10
Help, my RAID array does not complete synchronization!
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Let us suppose the following situation: You have a Linux server with a software RAID1 array ( md ) and, for one reason or another (mostly be...
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2012-01-04
Using LILO to boot disks by UUID
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If you're plugging USB drives in an out and using LILO to boot a Linux distro (eg. Slackware) you may have ended up with a kernel panic ...
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2011-08-31
Enabling serial console on Linux Slackware
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I'm doing this frequently enough to warrant a post. Make sure you use a kernel with console enabled Confirm that your serial tty'...
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2011-08-03
Extracting a single DTS/AC3 channel from an MKV file as a PCM WAV
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Well, since audio and video software editors are still not there yet, a quick recepy. Say you have a H264/DTS MKV video file and you want to...
2011-06-30
Slackware 13.37 and minicom
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Doesn't work by default. Wanna know why? /etc/minirc.dfl is missing a Line Feed. Yes, really, all you need to do is add an extra blank l...
2011-05-25
Installing OSX (Snow Leopard) + Linux (Slackware 13.37 x86_64) on a GUID/GPT disk, with Software RAID enabled (ICH8R) - Part 5
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Focusing on Linux + LILO setup, to (hopefully) conclude this series. At this stage, you are supposed to have a standalone GPT/GUID disk, wit...
Installing OSX (Snow Leopard) + Linux (Slackware 13.37 x86_64) on a GUID/GPT disk, with Software RAID enabled (ICH8R) - Part 4
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Tuning the OSX installation Just a placeholder for now, as I still need for figure a few things. This will encompass removing the need to up...
2011-05-24
Installing OSX (Snow Leopard) + Linux (Slackware 13.37 x86_64) on a GUID/GPT disk, with Software RAID enabled (ICH8R) - Part 3
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Alright, on to the actual OSX installation. This assumes that you have sorted out the matter of getting your SATA controllers detetected, an...
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Installing OSX (Snow Leopard) + Linux (Slackware 13.37 x86_64) on a GUID/GPT disk, with Software RAID enabled (ICH8R) - Part 2
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With both the iBoot CD and the OSX installation USB key rearing to go (see previous post), it's time to insert them both, and reboot, wh...
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2011-05-23
Installing OSX (Snow Leopard) + Linux (Slackware 13.37 x86_64) on a GUID/GPT disk, with Software RAID enabled (ICH8R) - Part 1
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Now that's quite a mouthful of a title. And considering that there is much to discuss, I will break this whole thing into a multipart po...
2011-01-21
Why encrypted firmware is bad
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A simple example will suffice. Let's say I own a digital camera, or a device that contains a digital camera, that uses encrypted firmwar...
2010-08-13
Formatting a PSP Memory Stick for use with a Pandora battery in Linux
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Always a pain to do, and nobody seems to provide the files I want, so I'll just provide my own files (using ipl_ms.bin => no frills,...
2010-08-09
That darn iBFT iSCSI Windows installation error
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If you ended up here, it's probably because you too tried to install Windows 7 or Vista on an iSCSI bootable disk using gPXE and, even t...
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2010-06-25
chrooted ssh & sftp on Slackware
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Since the SheevaPlug makes a nice server for one to share files online securedly, while allowing you to see exactly who is accessing them, t...
2010-02-24
Resync'ing a RAID 1 array
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Can come handy when attempting to correct unreadable sectors on a RAID disk. Eg. if your RAID1 array is built around /dev/sda3 and /dev/...
2009-12-31
Changing the NTP update interval in Windows
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Default is 604800 seconds (7 days), which is way way too long. On my machine, I'm getting clock skews of close to a minute as a result, ...
2009-12-15
Windows 7, I hardly knew ye...
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Blah, blah, blah, Windows 7 is great, blah, blah... Oh, you were actually expecting something in that range? Not on this blog I'm afraid...
2009-11-05
HDMI-CEC is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!
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Well, like many, I was convinced that HDMI-CEC was the wave of the future with regards to AV automation, until I actually read the specs of ...
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2009-10-29
Creating a Visual Studio 2008 application that uses Cairo
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One day or another, you'll want to produce quick 2D data with your code for visualization, and after looking through hordes of libraries...
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