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Using End/Home key for SUSE Linux with PuTTY
Using the default PuTTY session configuration the [Home] and [End] keys don’t work under SUSE. Not sure why the keys work differently on SUSE linux with PuTTY then other distributions, but it does. Anyway the solution is a simple setting. … Continue reading
WD My Book Live Duo – Readonly Public Share
The Western Digital MyBook Live Duo is a nice cheap NAS for home use. Can be set to RAID1 for redundancy. The first nuisance I ran into was for making public shares read-only to the world and write-able to specific … Continue reading
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Secure Remote Backups on the Cheap
Like many “technically minded” families we have started to accumulate a startling amount of data at home. A couple hundred gigs of storage on the file server used to be more than adequate. I did a pretty good job of making sure … Continue reading
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Batch gpg Decrypt and Unzip
In Linux: To batch decrypt with gpg: echo {yourpassphrase} | gpg –passphrase-fd 0 –decrypt-files *.pgp To batch unzip: unzip “*.zip”
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Common SQL Server Troubleshooting Queries
Last Query for All Open Connections (source): SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_requests er CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(er.sql_handle) AS t Number of Open Connections (source): SELECT DB_NAME(dbid) as DBName, COUNT(dbid) as NumberOfConnections, … Continue reading
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PayPal Link Generator
PayPal used to let you create a payment link in addition to the current payment button. The link was nice for a quick and dirty method when the button wasn’t needed, but PayPal seems to have done away with it. … Continue reading
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Quick DVD Backup to ISO on Linux
I often want an easy command line way to easily backup a standard definition (non-BlueRay) DVD to and ISO image. The command line is nice because I can do it remotely on an idle MythTV Frontend machine and can copy the … Continue reading
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Remove Unsed Linux Kernels
I hate manually cleaning out all of the old kernels here is a script to do it for you: dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge … Continue reading
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Spam-me-not E-mail Link Obfuscator
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/email/encode/
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Setting default Runlevel
This was written for Fedora, not sure how many other other distros it applies to. There are three ways to change your runlevel: * While the Computer is Running: 1. Open a Terminal. 2. Become root. 3. Type: init … Continue reading
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