As root: adduser yourusername sudo

As root user, create a credentials file. Note that and should be entered without “<>” brackets. root@Erebus:~# cat > .smbcredentials username=<user> password=<password> ...

Backup with default language: HandBrakeCLI –main-feature -i /dev/cdrom -o movie.mp4 -e x264 -b 1000 -B 192 Backup with 2nd language: For example English language DVD with additional Japanese audi...

First ensure that apt has access to the relevant sources. My /etc/apt/sources.list is as follows (please update to reflect your local mirror – I’m in Japan, hence the “jp”): deb https://ftp.jp.debi...

Install prerequisite packages for the build: sudo apt-get install subversion yasm build-essential autoconf libtool zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libxml2-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libsamplerate-dev libf...

After 132 hours and 934 deaths – roughly once every 8-9 minutes, DS2 is finally finished 🙂

First create the certificate for upload to the Azure account via the Azure web page: jonas@nyx:~$ openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout privateKey.key -out certificate.cer It ...

By default it’s not possible to run executables (install software) from a client drive which has been mapped to a XenDesktop VM. A work around is to copy the files to a network share and run the in...

Handy command to use when disabling the Windows firewall – especially for Windows core servers which lack the GUI: netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off

Consistency in user names and passwords would be nice, but unfortunately that isn’t always the case. While setting up VMware’s vCenter, vCOPS and vShield recently I came across a few default logins...