Been waiting for Samba4 stable for long. It seems the wait is not worth and the development is snail slow. The scheduled alpha15 is still not here. Time to go with ADS.

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Just logged in to my ddwrt and a “PS” from root shows the wireless router password in plain “nas -P /tmp/nas.wl0lan.pid -H 34954 -l br0 -i eth2 -A -m 4 -k mypassword -s Sector7 -w 2 -g 3600″. This is ugly.

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While trying to debug a windows issue using windbg, I came across debuging sysmbols
not getting loaded and got an error “module load completed but sysmbols cannot be
completed”

The easiest fix is:
1. Start the WinDBG
2. Select File >, “Symbol File Path…”
c) Set the path

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Yes, if you manage 100 of server on windows, linux, citrix you know what Visionapp is. I was always looking for a opensource replacement and after so long finally there is one which just works. Go download mRemote here.

UPDATE: Sad, mRemote has merged with vRD. I have no idea how this goes ahead. (Removed Donate text)

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Recently I came across an application in my workplace which is still under test phrase thrashing cache on RedHat linux servers badly. If this application would run for an hour+ the Server would start slowing down and the only way out was restart the linux server.

Then I came across this:
drop_caches

Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop ( Read more... )

Do you have several admins who are looking administering Zimbra and you are concerned about all of them having access to viewing mails. Stop! Just issue these commands and keep the Admin password with you and they should be able Administer without “View Mail” options.

Commands to stop view mails from Zimbra, GlobalAdmin has be disabled:

#zmprov ma ( Read more... )

I am looking at Zine a relatively new weblog engine written on python. I found it easy fast and secure. A move to Zine from Wordpress is next on evaluation.

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Mostly when I suspect that there is rootkit presence on Linux, the first I would go for is I am sure mostly all admins prefer the same or rkhunter. Yesterday just of curiosity when I checked the chkrrootkit script I saw that it would check for the default locations where the rootkit infects. If a dedicated hacker completely re-engineers the code, ( Read more... )

I am with ubuntu 8.10 now. Left windows years back. Now what ? We build our own comfort levels everywhere: People, Places, Products… and Choosing a OS and sticking on is same. Time to change but what? MacOS, Freebsd..or  OpenBSD. They all are Unix based and I am good on that. I guess i have none to move on, to make myself uncomfortable, to ( Read more... )

Linus has a blog.
Update: And so does my wife.
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