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When you run Acronis version 10 on a Windows 2008 R2 you get the error “0xc0000225 - Boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. To fix this problem: Boot Windows 2008 R2 CD Select repair Run command line Now run these commands Bootrec /fixmbr Bootrec /fixboot Bootrec /rebuildbcd Reboot the server and your windows is running again. Source: http://www.qliktips.com/2012/11/fix-windows-8-boot-issue.html

Steps to take if you have an bootloop after a wrong ROM update Requirements: First off all your device must be unlocked HTC Sync manager (install it)@ http://www.htc.com/www/software/htc-sync-manager/ MiniSDK (extract to C:\mini-sdk) Download recovery image and place the file in C:\mini-sdk\ @ http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager New ROM and place the zip in C:\mini-sdk Shutdown your phone to hold it in direct light and hold down the power button When the power is off hold down volume and press the power button Select fastboot Connect the device with your pc start cmd.exe cd c:\mini-sdk fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-6.0.3.1-m7.img ...

I have an HP 6560b laptop with windows 8 installed. But HP driver support for Windows 8 is very very bad… I don’t go too deep in to de details but the network driver, video driver, auto-update software (HPSoftpaq) and hardware support and sucks big time :X I bought a bluetooth speaker but the HP wireless assistant isn’t available for windows 8 so you can’t enable bluetooth. What you must do to get this working is reboot your laptop, press F10, and reset your BIOS to default. ...

I copy/paste this howto from the debian wiki @ https://wiki.debian.org/iptables and add this to my blog to for fast finding the best iptables article on the net. Iptables provides packet filtering, network address translation (NAT) and other packet mangling. Two of the most common uses of iptables is to provide firewall support and NAT. Configuring iptables manually is challenging for the uninitiated. Fortunately, there are many configuration tools (wizards) available to assist: e.g., fwbuilder, bastille, ferm (wiki page), ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall, from Ubuntu). ...

When you reschedule appointments in a roombox you can get this error: Your meeting request was declined. It didn't specify an end date. The end date must be before x/x/xxxx. To fix this start the Exchange Management Shell and set this commands: get-CalendarProcessing * |fl |findstr Roombox set-CalendarProcessing "Roommailbox" -EnforceSchedulingHorizon $false set-CalendarProcessing "Roommailbox" -BookingWindowInDays 1080 After this cmdlet you can schedule the appointments more than the default 180 days.

It’s can be hard to find a decent spotify playlist. I thought it must be possible to create a playlist from all of the yesterday tracks of my favourite dutch radio station 3FM. I will describe the steps you must take to create the playlist. The software you need is notepad++. The editing in this article can be done with other editors also but notpad++ has a macro recorder to repeat some actions really quickly. ...

Sometimes a website on a shared server is compromised by a hacker. Most of the time they use the website to spam the WWW around. It can be hard to find the specific script who is responsible for the spam. Here I will describe a method you can use to find and eliminate the script. First stop postfix to stop the mail flood # service stop postfix Now get the mailque and write down the message id (yellow) ...

I want the latest tvseries series automatically downloaded. There are plugins like couchpotato and sickbeard. Problem with these tools is that you must (semi) hack your synology nas to get this working. Synology has the option to download automatically trough RSS. So I did a dive in to this option and I worked it out for you ;) What do you need: Synology NAS ShowRSS account @ http://showrss.info (free) Some tv series that you like After you create an account at http://showrss.info select the series you want to download and click “Add to my list” ...

Click edit > Mass Edit > Monitor Properties “Add” Monitors where “property” “Type” (Object Type) Matches regular expression: “drive” Replace “Minimum Threshold” by “Overwrite”. Replace with: “10” Click “Preview” to ensure the proper values are being changed. Click “Next”

Create a zenoss user cron sudo crontab -u zenoss -e Use this lines to backup every day 10 AM. HISTFILE=/home/zenoss/.bash_history HOME=/home/zenoss INSTANCE_HOME=/opt/zenoss LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/zenoss/lib LOGNAME=zenoss MAIL=/var/spool/mail/zenoss PATH=/opt/zenoss/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/zenoss/bin PWD=/home/zenoss PYTHONPATH=/opt/zenoss/lib/python USER=zenoss ZENHOME=/opt/zenoss 30 10 * * * /opt/zenoss/bin/zenbackup -v10 Note: When I not put the variables to the cron I get this error: ERROR: $ZENHOME is not set. This is usually caused by executing this command as root rather than as the zenoss user. Either define $ZENHOME or run this command as a different user. ...