Linux

Simple Windows Print Accounting using Event Viewer data

This post continues where my previous post titled Export events including Event Properties from Windows Event Viewer left off. The data I’m going to work with was exported using eventquery.vbs and saved in a CSV-file, comma separated file and it is presented in the form shown below. “Information”,”10″,”12.05.2009 13:24:48″,”Print”,”Servername”,”None”,”AD\username”,”Document 232, filename.pdf owned by username was […]

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Howto make Adobe Flash work on 64-bit Ubuntu

This post is actually not a HOWTO, but a quick tip on how to install Adobe Flash 10 in 64-bit Ubuntu. I’ve tested this in Ubuntu 9.4 with great success using the following commands from a console window. wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_x64_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash10_x64_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_x64_en.sh Note! Please read through the script […]

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Backup partition table

This post describes how you can backup your partition table for future recovery. Backup This example describes how you can backup the disk partition table on /dev/sda dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.mbr bs=512 count=1 It’s also useful to keep a human readable copy of the disk layout for future reference sudo fdisk -l > partitions.lst Restore This […]

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Change file date in linux using touch

To change the date on all files in a folder to 19th February 2009 at 18:00 using the linux command touch # touch * -t “200902191800” It’s a nice way to correct file dates. Replace * with the actual file name if you don’t want to correct all files in the current folder.

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Using Forte Agent Newsreader in linux with SSL support

This post describes how you can connect to a NNTP news servers that provides SSL support with your Forte Agent Newsreader version 6.0 under Ubuntu linux. I assume you know how to install Forte Agent in linux or access it from a Windows partition and will not describe that in this post. Installing wine # […]

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