Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

The simple way to wipe or zerofill a disk is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M However I found an article describing how to zero-fill with a progress indicator using pipebench, installed on Debian/Ubuntu ...

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the ...

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

So I had a problem with the ldapusersearch string as some eejit has created an OU with spaces and an apostrophe in the name. So the characters are represented as: comma ...

Flushing local client DNS cache

From info I found here. This is how to flush the local client DNS cache. Windows: ipconfig /flushdns Linux: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Mac: lookupd -flushcache

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Written by jonny in exchange, powershell

30
Jul
2008

Beginning Powershell

When writing my first powershell script to check free disk space on a dozen exchange servers I picked up a few useful things for future reference. Echoing output to the [...]

Written by jonny in Uncategorized

4
Jul
2008

CycloDS Evolution for Nintendo DS

The CycloDS Evo is one of many flash carts for the Nintendo DS / lite. This modification card is used in conjunction with a Micro SD card on which you [...]

Written by jonny in Uncategorized

4
Jul
2008

Google Docs

I tried a few options for downloading documents from GoogleDocs, some methods are geared more for synchronising one document at a time but I needed something to take a full [...]