I recently was tasked to create a thin client type device and needed to disable all power management features. I found it to be more convoluted then I expected, so here are the options I found. In the end, the options in bold were all I needed to disable the screen...

I’ve finally upgraded from Mythdora 12! This is how I rebuilt using a fresh installation of Fedora 20 x64. Note, a few of the steps pertain to restoring my previous MySQL database used from my Mythdora installation. I’m happy to report I was able to successfully use...

Reference: http://www.witchspace.net/witchspace/page/computer/rhel6-family-server Here are my notes: installed desktop installed epel repos, default repos enabled installed atrpms repos, enabled atrpms and atrpms-testing Install all deps yum install mythtv* change...

Overwrite MBR: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd$i bs=512 count=1 Clear GPT partition table by setting “msdos” as the table and label: parted /dev/sd$i mktable parted /dev/sd$i mklabel Create msdos primary partition using entire drive and set partition type of Linux software...

Convert music file from WMA to WAV to MP3: mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm:waveheader sourcefilename.wma lame -m s -V 3 sourcefilenamedump.wav mv sourcefilenamedump.wav.mp3 filename.mp3 rm sourcefilenamedump.wav Convert music file from MP3 to...

Scan a Linux server for new drives: This finds NEW disks that were added. echo “- – -” > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan This finds changes to an EXISTING disk (e.g. after expanding a virtual disk) echo 1 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0\:0\:0\:0/rescan (The 0:0:0:0 is the...

Set Windows server time = First, locate your PDC Server. Open the command prompt and type: C:\>netdom /query fsmo Log in to your PDC Server and open the command prompt. Stop the W32Time service: C:\>net stop w32time Configure the external time sources, type: C:\>...

Environment: vSphere 5.1 ESXi virtual machine vmware.log file in VM “home directory” Snapshots appeared to have deleted from GUI, however delta files still existed in VM directories Trying to consolidate a snapshot and in the GUI you get the error: “Unable to access...

Environment: OS: Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory (single DC environment..oy I know) Issue: ADUC cannot open, Sysvol/AD not functioning, users cannot login, no existing good DCs and must restore from backups. Thankfully, local backups were configured properly with...

Just wanted to make a quick note of all the applications I install by default on my Fedora laptop to get it fully functional. Fresh installation of Fedora 19 x64, then: sudo yum update -y sudo yum groupinstall “MATE Desktop” -y sudo yum install cairo-dock thunderbird...