virtual ethernet card network adapter 1 is not supported

I had the “error virtual ethernet card network adapter 1 is not supported” on a 64 bit Linux (ubuntu) virtual machine. To fix this problem I shutdown the virtual machine, removed the NIC and add a new E1000 network card. Then I boot the server even everything was fine :)

April 24, 2012 · 1 min · thomasf

SQL Reporting Services slow with Internet Explorer

When you access the reporting services over SSL you can have the problem that the reporting services GUI under IE is very slow. The solution is quite simple: Login with the servername or domain name. E.g: SERVERNAME\username This problem exist under IE 8 and IE9 under Server 2008, 2008r2, Vista and Windows 7.

April 11, 2012 · 1 min · thomasf

Two nice windows transformation packs (themes)

OSX Lion Transformation Pack @ http://www.winxsoft.com/ltp/ Custopack tools @ http://www.custopack.com/

April 7, 2012 · 1 min · thomasf

OpenElec XBMC Fix the splash screen ATI and NVidia

If your OpenELEC machine says “could not open framebuffer no such file or directory” when you turn it on, follow this to get the splash screen working. The splash screen is much prettier than some plain text in the corner of the screen, so follow this to get your splash working. You’ll need: SSH access to your OpenELEC machine Nano installed; for versions 0.7 and above, you’ll need to install the nano add-on from System > Addons > Get Addons > OpenELEC.tv > Programs > nano and click install. OK, let’s begin. Open an SSH session to your OpenELEC machine then at the prompt, type: ...

April 7, 2012 · 2 min · thomasf

Sound over HDMI on ION2 systems

1. Connect to your box with SSH or SAMBA. 2. Type the following: cp ~/.config/asound.conf.sample/asound.conf_double-xs35gt.sample ~/.config/asound.conf 3. In XBMC, go to System > Audio and make the following configuration: Audio output = HDMISpeaker configuration = 7.1 (or the what your receiver is capable of)Audio output device = custom Custom audio device = plughw:1,7 Passthrough output device = custom Custom passthrough device = plughw:1,7 4. Reboot the system

April 7, 2012 · 1 min · thomasf

Stream music to XBMC via Airplay

[banner] The easiest way to stream audio to your XBMC is with the Apple protocol Airplay. Since XBMC Eden (version 11) it is possible to activate Airplay via: System/Settings -> Network -> Services -> enable AirPlay Requirements: Linux/Ubuntu users will need to install avahi-daemon: sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon #(on Ubuntu) Mac OS X needs no additional set-up. Windows users will need to install Bonjour (if you have iTunes installed then you will already have Bonjour): http://support.apple.com/kb/dl999 ...

April 1, 2012 · 1 min · thomasf

XBMCBuntu boot problem when TV is turned off (Nvidia)

When I boot my XBMC box and don’t turn my TV on before the boot XBMC was not succesfully. After some digging and googling I found the solution. On your XBMCBuntu device press ALT+CRTL+F1 login with user xbmc, pass xbmc type sudo su - type killall Xorg press ALT+CRTL+F7 login with user xbmc, pass xbmc and select XBMCBuntu Now press the button on the left bottom (or press the windows/command key) Select System Tools > Nvidia X Server Settings click on DFP-0, DFP-1 or whatever then click “Acquire EDID..” Save it as edid.bin in your /home/xbmc/ folder Now make an ssh connection from another PC to your XBMC box Example linux/osx: ssh 192.168.1.12 -l xbmc for windows try putty Make yourself root sudo su - Password xbmc Type: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep “Assigned Display Device: DFP-” Keep the DFP-X number in mind Make a backup of your X.org config cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig open the xorg.conf nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf Delete all the lines with ctrl+k(multiple times) Now paste the new config: Section "Device" Identifier "nvidia" Driver "nvidia" Option "DynamicTwinView" "False" Option "NoFlip" "false" Option "NoLogo" "true" Option "ConnectToAcpid" "0" Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native" Option "ModeValidation" "NoVesaModes, NoXServerModes" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-1" Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/home/xbmc/edid.bin" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen" Device "nvidia" DefaultDepth 24 Option "ColorRange" "Full" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x720" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "false" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" EndSection Change the DFP-X number in the config if you have another number then DFP-1 press CTRL+O to safe the file Type shutdown -h now to turn the XBMC box of Turn of the TV and turn your XBMC box on Test if everything works fine now :) If this works for you please leave a comment below :) ...

April 1, 2012 · 2 min · thomasf

Bandwidth calculator

A link to a very nice bandwidth calculator: http://web.forret.com/tools/bandwidth.asp?speed=4&unit=TB%2Fm

March 22, 2012 · 1 min · thomasf

Cisco router change access list (ACL)

First check accesslist with show run Then check the dialer ! interface Dialer1 description Internet ip address negotiated ip access-group 111 in ip nat outside ip inspect list1 out ip virtual-reassembly Copy the access group line (bold) to notepad Now do a show run and copy the specific (111 in my case) accesslist to notepad access-list 111 permit tcp any any established access-list 111 permit icmp any any administratively-prohibited access-list 111 permit icmp any any echo access-list 111 permit icmp any any echo-reply access-list 111 permit icmp any any packet-too-big access-list 111 permit icmp any any time-exceeded access-list 111 permit icmp any any traceroute access-list 111 permit icmp any any unreachable access-list 111 permit tcp any any eq ftp access-list 111 permit tcp any any eq www access-list 111 deny ip any any log ...

March 15, 2012 · 2 min · thomasf

Linux show disk space specific folder

$du -c -h /path/to/directory

March 14, 2012 · 1 min · thomasf