MythTV on Scientific Linux 6.1

by | Feb 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

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...

convert from wma to wav to mp3, convert mp3 to wav

by | Feb 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

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...

Add new virtual disk in a VMware virtual machine on RHEL 5.x linux

by | Feb 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

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...

Windows time sync notes

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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:\>...

A snapshot operation is already in progress in vmware.log?

by | Feb 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

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...