geekism and nerdism

Bookmarks for 6 dic 2012 through 14 dic 2012

These are my links for 6 dic 2012 through 14 dic 2012:

  • Native Cisco VPN on Mac OS X – With Group Password Decoder! – The proprietary CiscoVPN Mac client is somewhat buggy. It is possible to use the IPSec VPN software included with Mac OS X instead. This tutorial shows you how to migrate from CiscoVPN to the native OS X IPSec VPN by decrypting passwords saved in CiscoVPN PCF files.
  • How to Run Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9 in Linux with or without Wine – How to Run Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9 in Linux with or without Wine
    Microsoft have a wonderfully long history of badly designed software that they're proudly continuing to this day with the abomination of IE 9 and the ghastly sham that is Windows 7. It's a tribute to the skills of the many hard-working marketing heads over at Redmond that despite the poor quality and the easy availability of superior cost-free alternatives, people the world over keep coming back to Microsoft like hookers on crack.
  • Welcome to perlmeme.org – perlmeme.org is a collection of Frequently Asked Questions, "How To" documents, and tutorials about the very cool Perl programming language.
    The documents cover a range of expertise levels. Some are suitable for beginners, others assume that you know some Perl already, and others cover advanced topics.
    If you're new to Perl, or even new to programming in general then perlmeme.org is a great place to start. However, there's plenty of in-depth material here as well.

Bookmarks for 5 dic 2012 through 6 dic 2012

These are my links for 5 dic 2012 through 6 dic 2012:

Bookmarks for 29 nov 2012 from 15:24 to 16:55

These are my links for 29 nov 2012 from 15:24 to 16:55:

  • PowerShell Commands (CMDLETs) for Active Directory by Quest – The ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory is a set of free, predefined commands for Windows PowerShell, the powerful command line and scripting language developed by Microsoft. These commands are designed to help administrators automate common, repetitive and bulk management tasks for Active Directory, such as creating, removing or updating objects in AD.
  • PowerGUI.org – Free Windows Powershell Community – Welcome to PowerGUI.org – a free community for PowerGUI, a graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell!
  • ksh_timer – An interface to evaluate function execution time in shell script in each function or in user-defined sections

    Summary:  ksh_timer helps ksh script developers or administrators to find out quickly and with minimal change in their script, what functions or user-defined sections are time consuming. By default, ksh_timer will time the overall script and each function defined and used in the script. Users can define additional sections of the scripts they need to be timed.

Bookmarks for 26 nov 2012 from 11:25 to 11:26

These are my links for 26 nov 2012 from 11:25 to 11:26:

  • Betavine Connection Manager | Mobile Apps Developer | Vodafone – Betavine Connection Manager aims to be an easy to use, full featured mobile broadband manager application, supporting as many devices, operating systems and distributions as possible, while providing a decoupled, easy-to-reuse and standards based core. Betavine Connection Manager is released under the GPL license.
  • Linux Connection Manager | Mobile Apps Developer | Vodafone – Linux Connection Manager
  • Vodafone Mobile Connect 2.20.01 su Ubuntu Lucid – Vodafone Mobile Connect è un'applicazione per connessioni GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA, supporta le più diffuse chiavette, ed inoltre permette anche l'invio/ricezione di sms e controllare il traffico dati (utile se su utilizzano con tariffe a volume di dati). Ricordo che l'applicazione la possiamo utilizzare con qualsiasi operatore, nel mio caso la utilizzo con Tim.

Bookmarks for 6 nov 2012 through 13 nov 2012

These are my links for 6 nov 2012 through 13 nov 2012:

  • Howto: Change the IP address of a Dell 4/P DRAC from the command line without rebooting the server – Normally you configure a Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) when a server is initially commissioned. Once the card is set, administrators rarely if ever need to modify the settings. If you do need to change the settings, the server needs to be restarted so the DRAC BIOS can be modified, which obviously results in system downtime and requires a physical presence at the server console.
  • bash ini parser | /var/log/ajdiaz – In some situations i like to use INI files as configuration files, as python do. But bash do not provide a parser for these files, obviously you can use a awk code or a couple of sed calls, but if you are bash-priest and do not want to use nothing more, then you can try the following obscure code:
  • Jugg Monkey: VMWare HA Agent had an error – I recently had a problem with one hoste in a 3 node VMWare ESX 3. 5 cluster. For some reason, the HA Agent would not start after I applied outstanding software updates. I kept receiving "VMWare HA Agent had an error" in the alerts after the host came online. I had recently needed to change the IP address of the VMWare 3.5 ESX host, so I figured that was the root cause.

Bookmarks for 2 nov 2012 from 15:23 to 18:09

These are my links for 2 nov 2012 from 15:23 to 18:09:

  • USEFUL ONE-LINE SCRIPTS FOR SED – (Unix stream editor) Dec. 29, 2005
    Compiled by Eric Pement – pemente[at]northpark[dot]edu version 5.5
  • IBM devscan tool – United States – The devscan tool is a supplemental tool used by AIX support personnel to gather debugging data for Storage Area Networks. The package download includes a manual page that is also available on this site at the Usage tab.
  • mysqlreport :: Make easy-to-read MySQL status reports – mysqlreport makes a friendly report of important MySQL status values. mysqlreport transforms the values from SHOW STATUS into an easy-to-read report that provides an in-depth understanding of how well MySQL is running. mysqlreport is a better alternative (and practically the only alternative) to manually interpreting SHOW STATUS.
  • Percona Online Tools – Welcome to Percona's suite of productivity tools for MySQL database administrators and developers. One free account lets you access all of the tools below, and keeps you updated when new tools or enhancements are available. Registration is required.

    Optimize your MySQL Server:
    Leverage our expertise to create a good starting configuration for a MySQL server.
    This tool will walk you through all of the steps necessary to create a ready to use MySQL configuration file in about 5 minutes.

    Analyze an SQL Query:
    Find out when your SQL is potentially buggy, hard for MySQL to optimize, or confusing.
    This tool will analyze your SQL code and warn you when it detects problems that we've encountered while optimizing thousands of queries in real applications.

Bookmarks for 2 nov 2012 from 11:31 to 12:17

These are my links for 2 nov 2012 from 11:31 to 12:17:

Bookmarks for 26 ott 2012 through 1 nov 2012

These are my links for 26 ott 2012 through 1 nov 2012:

  • tunlr.net – Stream video or music, whenever and wherever you want

    Do you want to stream video or audio from U.S.-based on-demand Internet streaming media providers but can't get in on the fun because you're living outside the U.S.? Fear not, you have come to the right place. Tunlr lets you stream content from sites like Hulu, MTV, CBS, ABC, Pandora and more to your Mac or PC. Want to watch HuluPlus on your iPad, AppleTV or XBox 360 even though you're not in the U.S.? Tunlr lets you do this.

  • Wifix – Non-technical version

    WiFix is a program that allows users to locate, download, compile and install the appropriate driver for their wireless card.

    Geek version

    WiFix is a community-built program that aims to be a modular program that provides users with an intuitive interface for installing wireless drivers. Although created for Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular, the design is intended to allow for usage on all Linux distributions and other platforms, such as BSD or even Windows, potentially using the same database tables. For example, archives used for installing NDIS-based drivers can work in any of these operating systems.

    When users run WiFix, their device information is submitted to our database, the PCI ID is stored, so that may locate the appropriate driver. When the same device id is queried again, the driver is retrieved and installed. In a sense, WiFix is a program by users, for users; every time someone uses it, it gets a little bit better.

  • 5115 Default Passwords from Open Sez Me! – 5115 Default Passwords for thousands of systems from 642 vendors!

Bookmarks for 22 ott 2012 through 23 ott 2012

These are my links for 22 ott 2012 through 23 ott 2012:

  • Can’t SSH into ASA? « Axelilly’s Ponderings – Something strange happened today when I went to SSH into my ASA cluster.

    Upon running ssh I got this error message:

    ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

  • Ubuntu Linux Resources – It's a collection of tutorials designed to help new Ubuntu users, in particular those coming from a Windows-using background.
  • PsPasswd – Systems administrators that manage local administrative accounts on multiple computers regularly need to change the account password as part of standard security practices. PsPasswd is a tool that lets you change an account password on the local or remote systems, enabling administrators to create batch files that run PsPasswd against the computers they manage in order to perform a mass change of the administrator password.

    PsPasswd uses Windows password reset APIs, so does not send passwords over the network in the clear.

Bookmarks for 11 ott 2012 through 15 ott 2012

These are my links for 11 ott 2012 through 15 ott 2012:

  • MQTT and Arduino Devices – IBM Redbooks – The number of different types of devices that can benefit from MQTT implementations is growing every day. This paper shows how to use MQTT directly from the Arduino platform.

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  • MQTT: MQ Telemetry Transport – MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/"Internet of Things" connectivity protocol. It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium. For example, it has been used in sensors communicating to a broker via satellite link, over occasional dial-up connections with healthcare providers, and in a range of home automation and small device scenarios. It is also ideal for mobile applications because of its small size, low power usage, minimised data packets, and efficient distribution of information to one or many receivers (more…)
  • SoftPerfect Network Scanner: fast and free network scanner – SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and many advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP/UDP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden).
    In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN.