If you have ever needed to recover a failed hard drive, then chances are you have heard of SpinRite. My first encounter with SpinRite was about 7 years ago when I was tasked with recovering a *.pst file from a failed hard drive. Since that day, I have used SpinRite 100’s of times to successfully… Read More
SpinRite is a computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces. The first version was released in 1988. Version 6.0, still current as of March 2015, was released in 2004. SpinRite is run from a bootable medium (floppy disc, optical disc, bootable… Read More
Most people nowadays will be running the newest version of Adobe Acrobat however, many companies are still utilizing their older software licenses for Acrobat 9. In my case, I am adding Acrobat 9 Pro to a base Windows 7 image. As you may know already, Acrobat 9 Pro standalone updates require a specific version before… Read More
Instructions are a re-post from the dell site here. First we will need to add the Dell OpenManage Debian Repository to our machine with the following command. Next to verify OMSA packages, add the repository key to apt and make apt aware of the new software repository by issuing the following command. Next, install one… Read More
In order to remove VMware Tools On Debian you will be employing a two step process. First you will need to right click on the Virtual Machine in vSphere and choose “guest” > “Install/Upgrade VMware Tools” pictured left. Note that you will need to select interactive mode in order to prevent the installer from automatically… Read More
In this article I would like to share a recent experience I had upgrading a customer server to new hardware. The server being upgraded was originally deployed on desktop hardware (Dell OptiPlex GX520) as a new server for this customer was not an option. This server was built and put in place in early 2010… Read More
Creation of bootable USB drives has become relatively easy nowadays with the help of tools like Rufus and USB Image Tool. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a backup image of your bootable USB drive and whenever you need it, just restore the backup image using the method described in Pfsense USB Install… Read More
Previously we had written an article Pfsense USB Installation Guide, in which we showed you how to make bootable USB installation media for Pfsense. While the previous method does still work, we have found that using Rufus as a one stop shop for USB installation media, is now our preferred method. Below we will detail… Read More
If you are hosting a website, you almost certainly are aware of hotlinking or bandwidth theft. If not then read on. Hotlinking is essentially the practice of linking directly to a image or download hosted on a different website. This practice is typically frowned upon amongst the community of web site owners/operators however some unscrupulous… Read More
Sysdig to give admins and developers unprecedented visibility into the behavior of their systems. Traditionally, system-level monitoring and troubleshooting still largely involve logging into the machine with SSH and using a plethora of dated tools with very inconsistent interfaces. And since most tools don’t offer any kind of history, you’re left struggling to reproduce the… Read More