Debian Prerequisites

(lenny: libssh2-1-dev needs to be pinned to squeeze repo)

Force machine to look for available Windows Updates

wuauclt.exe /detectnow /resetauthorization /reportnow /updatenow

Mount a network share to a drive

net use X: \\server\sharename

View RDP sessions of a remote server

net use \\1.2.3.4\ipc$
qwinsta /server:1.2.3.4

Force logoff of remote user

where "1" is the ID the session id from qwinsta above (also works to "unstick" a console session sometimes)

Install VMware Tools on Debian

Install the following dependencies

aptitude install autoconf automake binutils cpp gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r) make psmisc

Extract the VMWareTools tarball, then run

vmware-install.pl default

Convert VMware Server disk to ESX/ESXi disk

vmware-vdiskmanager -r diskname.vmdk -t 4 -h hostname -u username -f passwordfile "[datastore1]/diskname.vmdk"

Hide Status Bar and Menu Bar

VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/Customizations noMenuBar,noStatusBar

Hide Menu Bar

VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/Customizations noMenuBar,StatusBar

Ignore a specific cookie

// Ignore "example" cookie
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "(^|;\s*)example=[^;]*", "");

Strip Cookies From a Specific URL

sub vcl_recv {
    if (req.http.host ~ "^(www.)?example.com" && req.url ~ "^/nocache") {
        
    }
}

sub vcl_fetch {
    if (req.http.host ~ "^(www.)?example.com" && req.url ~ "^/nocache") {
        unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
    }
}

Real-time count of URL's passing to the backend

Disable resize grips (11.10+)

Add the following to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

* {
    -GtkWindow-resize-grip-default: false;
}

Disable gnome-terminal menu

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt

Fix xinerama (10.04)

Prerequisites:

Create a New Repository

1. Create a new subversion repository

   svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/svn/repository-name
   

2. Set permissions on new repository so that svn-group has full access

   chgrp -R svn-group /var/svn/repository-name
   chmod -R g+rw /var/svn/repository-name
   find /var/svn/repository-name -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

3. To initialize the repository, create a project directory somewhere, and in that directory create trunk/, branches/, and tags/ directories. Then, import the project directory into the repository.

Certificate Fingerprint

from http://www.bo.infn.it/alice/introgrd/certmgr/node15.html

A fast certificate verification is the comparison of the fingerprint between a trusted certificate and a certificate you have imported. The trusted certificate fingerprint is available from the web. For INFN CA the CA certificate fingerprint is printed in the download page. For the imported certificate the fingerprint is available with the following SSL command:

Passwordless SSH

1. Generate an id_rsa.pub file

   ssh-keygen -t rsa

2. Copy public key to remote server

   cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@machine "mkdir -p ~/.ssh; cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"

Regenerate SSH Server Keys (debian)

rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server

Good Package Source

http://www.sunfreeware.com/

cd /tmp
gunzip foo-1.00-sol8-sparc-local.gz
pkgadd -d foo-1.00-sol8-sparc-local