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Misc

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 […]

Scripting

Export events including Event Properties from Windows Event Viewer

This post came to life after a request to produce an overview of how many prints every user produced on a special printer from our print server. Since we have no print accounting software installed on our Windows 2003 Server I had to come up with a new solution to this problem. The actual print […]

Web

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 […]

Misc

Tools to recover Windows CHK-files

This post links to two Windows programs that can help you determine the extension of CHK-files. A CHK-file is a file that is created when you run a disk repair tool like chkdsk, scandisk or other Windows disk tools. Often these CHK-files are placed in a FOUND.000 folder and contains several FILE0001.CHK FILE0002.CHK … files […]

Linux

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 […]