1. Some bundles are actually suitable (and will work even work!) on your Motorola Xoom, despite it not being your native country. For example, I just used the ‘Build H.6.1-38-1 for Retail Europe’ bundle to restore my Xoom. Why? Read on.
2. The Australian Bundle ‘Build H.6.1-38-9 for Telstra Australia’ has to be broken some how. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know. What I do know is that the ‘system.img’ file has an issue. I could never boot back into HoneyComb after restoring with this bundle. I’ve confirmed this by completing an entire restore with the ‘Build H.6.1-38-1 for Retail Europe’, and then restoring the system.img from the ‘Build H.6.1-38-9 for Telstra Australia’ bundle, and it won’t boot. To further confirm it, I completed an entire restore with the ‘Build H.6.1-38-9 for Telstra Australia’ bundle. It wouldn’t boot, so I restored just the system.img from the ”Build H.6.1-38-1 for Retail Europe’ bundle, and presto, I was back up and running again, SIM card recognised, the whole lot!

Following my restore with the ‘Build H.6.1-38-1 for Retail Europe’ I also noted the entire device felt much faster, and the Market app doesn’t crash anymore! Needless to say, I’m muchly enjoying my Motorola Xoom far more then I was the day I got it home and tried to add Facebook as my first app. I was not impressed when I realised I couldn’t install any apps, and Market would just keep crashing, which lead me to my hacking, and rooting attempts and finally my requirement to restore.

Had a similar experience? Why not share it in the comments?

You’ve tried everything you can think of. Hard reset, soft reset, factory reset, factory restore, factory wipe and erase. Nothing works! I thought that too!

Please read this entire article before trying anything!

So long as you can still reach the ‘Starting Fastboot Protocol Support’, by powering the device on (or resetting with Power + Volume Up) while holding the power and volume down button, you are probably not in as much trouble as you may think.

Visit this link and download the zip file:

http://www.android.net/forum/downloading/67/guest/SDK_tools.zip
(leave me a comment if the file is unavailable, I’ll upload a copy to this website)

Extract it to your C:\ drive, so the contents exist in:

C:\SDK_tools

Visit this link:

http://developer.motorola.com/products/software/

Read this article for more information about the bundles.

Download the corrosponding bundle version for your location or region. I’m in Australia, so I downloaded the ‘Build H.6.1-38-9 for Telstra Australia’ bundle. Take a few moments to peruse the list, it’s a little confusing and I almost downloaded the wrong one. Make sure you download the right one. I’ve no idea what happens if you restore with the wrong files.

You’ll have to register to download the files. It’s free, which is not bad for something that is about to bring your Motorola Xoom back to life

Extract the archive and dump all the files directly into the C:\SDK_tools directory.

Your directory listing should look something like this:

adb.exe
AdbWinApi.dll
AdbWinUsbApi.dll
boot.img
ddms.bat
fastboot.exe
recovery.img
system.img
userdata.img

Depending on the amount of damage you’ve done to your Motorola Xoom, you may or may not need to do all of the following commands:

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem lock


Note 1. If you intend to root or otherwise modify the OS in the near or far future, skip the last command (fastboot oem lock).

Note 2. If no userdata.img file is present in your download, please issue the command:

fastboot erase userdata

I only managed to screw up my boot partition (I think) as I only needed to excute the first command. Try them one at a time and reboot the Motorola Xoom. Give it time to come back to life before re-entering ‘Starting Fastboot Protocol Support’ again. When I say give it some time, I mean wait at least 5 minutes.

Note: you can unlock your Motorola Xoom with the following command:

fastboot oem unlock.

As for rooting the device… well I’m sure that’s the reason some of you are here! Do some more research before attempting it again, I know I did!

1. Nothing. Just leave it. After all, the message at the bottom of the check security page says ‘This scoring does not necessarily reflect the security of your server or the relative merits of each check’ In other words, getting all green doesn’t necessarily mean your server is secure.
2. You can set up pretend mount points (this works on bare metal installations as well). Delete the /var/tmp directory and symlink it to /tmp (ln -s /tmp /var/tmp). Next, edit your /etc/fstab file and all the following line: /tmp /tmp   ext3    defaults,usrquota,bind,noauto,noexec,nosuid        0 0 Finally, be sure to change the permissions to 1777 (chmod -R 1777).

The second option above doesn’t really achieve anything except the green ‘OK’ from CSF. Traditionally, the /tmp and /var/tmp directory have been located on a separate file system, due to the volatile nature of the files and content that are temporarily stored there. If the server was compromised via this directory, it could be easy to stop the compromise by un-mounting the file system. Better still, if the file system itself was hacked or damaged, it would only be the /tmp and /var/tmp that was damaged, both of which are easily replaced and can be deleted, removed and recreated all while the system is still running, not to mention that no important data is ever stored in these directories either.

Upgrading PHP (from 5.1 to 5.3 for example) on a variety of common RPM based linux distributions (CentOS/RHEL, Whitebox, Fedora, etc) can be a tricky process. After some searching and playing around, I come across a simple method which should meet the needs of most. There is a fantastic repository known as the IUS Community Project.

We are committed to providing up to date and regularly maintained RPM packages for the latest upstream versions of PHP, Python, MySQL and other common software specifically for Redhat Enterprise Linux and clones.

A Word of Warning: Do not attempt the following on a server that has cPanel/WHM installed on it. You will break your server! Use the Easy Apache Updater through the WHM interface or the Easy Apache Updater script: /scripts/easyapache on the command line, to upgrade your PHP version and features.

The following process should get you were you want to be.

1. Download and Install the IUS repositories. You can start here: http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/. Pick your release version and architecture (execute the command 'uname -a' (as root without the quotes) on the command line if you are unsure which you version you are using).
2. Download the two repository packages. The first package will have a file name starting with epel-release (epel-release-1-1.ius.el5.noarch.rpm at the time of writing) and the second file will have a file name starting with ius-release (ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm at the time of writing). On the command line, as root, you could execute the following commands: wget -c http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5.5/x86_64/epel-release-1-1.ius.el5.noarch.rpm to download the EPEL IUS repository installer for CentOS (and variants) on the 64bit platform  and wget -c http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5.5/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm to download the IUS repository installer for CentOS (and variants) on the 64bit platform.
3. Install the repositories, starting with the epel-release repository first: rpm -ivh epel-release-1-1.ius.el5.noarch.rpm and then rpm -ivh ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm.
4. Clear the system yum cache with this command: yum clean all
5. Make sure the version want and related components are available: yum list php5*
6. Remove any existing php and related components: yum remove php*
7. Install the base php version you are after: yum install php52.x86_64
8. Install any additional components or modules you may require: yum install php53u-eaccelerator.x86_64 php53u-ioncube-loader.x86_64 php53u-mbstring.x86_64 php53u-mcrypt.x86_64 php53u-mysql.x86_64 php53u-pdo.x86_64 php53u-xml.x86_64 php53u-xmlrpc.x86_64 php53u-gd.x86_64 and any others in the list that you want.
9. Finished!

It is worth noting at this point, that both the IUS repository and the IUS EPEL repository are still enabled. Care should be taken in leaving them enabled, especially if you have yum automatically updating your software on a regular basis. If this is the case, or you don’t want to risk breaking your system with yum late one night, disable these repositories as follows:

1. As root on the command line, navigate to the yum repositories directory: cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
2. Edit epel.repo file and change the 'enabled=1' line to 'enabled=0' You could use ‘nano’ (yum install nano if you don’t have it): nano epel.repo change the line and press ctrl+o and then ctrl+x to save and exit
3. Edit the ius.repo file and change the 'enabled=1' line to 'enabled=0' Again, you could use ‘nano’: nano ius.repo change the line and press ctrl+o and then ctrl+x to save and exit.
4. Finally type: yum clean all
5. Finished!

Leaving the IUS repositories enabled shouldn’t really cause you any problems. Then again, waking up one morning to find MySQL 5.0.x is now 5.1.x and everything on your server is now broken or not working, may be a good enough reason to disable them until needed, avoiding any accidental upgrades.

Official CentOS Repository for PHP

There isn’t one. But there is the testing repository. Edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file or create a new /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo file with the following in it:

[c5-testing]
name=CentOS-5 Testing
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing

# CentOS-Testing:
# !!!! CAUTION !!!!
# This repository is a proving grounds for packages on their way to CentOSPlus and CentOS Extras.
# They may or may not replace core CentOS packages, and are not guaranteed to function properly.
# These packages build and install, but are waiting for feedback from testers as to
# functionality and stability. Packages in this repository will come and go during the
# development period, so it should not be left enabled or used on production systems without due
# consideration.

Be sure to change the value of the line ‘enabled=0′ to ‘enabled=1′ when you want to use the repository. Change it back to ’0′ when you are finished, to avoid any accidental upgrades.

Feel free to post your comments and feedback. If you need a little extra help, please do let me know.

suhosin.executor.func.blacklist = "show_source,shell_exec,passthru,exec,popen,allow_url_fopen,system"

Of course your list of disabled features may not be the same as the example above, so be sure to add or delete the functions you want disabled or enabled from the list. Once you are done, restart apache and check your results with a phpinfo.php file. The following code inside a phpinfo.php file should do it:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Save the file and access it via your browser.

Search the page for the following value:

suhosin.executor.func.blacklist

The Local Value and Master Value should contain the following (as per the example in this case).

show_source,shell_exec,passthru,exec,popen,allow_url_fopen,system

Some plugins (cPanel or Other) may still complain that these functions are not disabled. You can rest assured, that they are disabled. In the case of wanting to simply please the software application (content management system etc) you can still add the entries as desired using the 'disable_functions' section of your php.ini file, although they won’t actually have any affect, as the values are overridden by the suhosin line. In some cases, apache may complain about both lines existing, in which case you may have to modify the software application to skip the check instead.

What about if I want to enable a feature for one particular domain?

If you want to enable or disable feature/s for one particular domain, a custom configuration can be set. On a standard server without cPanel/WHM, you would edit the vhost for the domain concerned. This may be the main /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file or it may be an include file. This will depend on your servers configuration. The short of it is, you simply add the following line to the end of the vhost configuration for the particular domain:

php_admin_value suhosin.executor.func.blacklist 'show_source,popen,allow_url_fopen,system'

In the above example, I’ve allowed shell_exec and passthru by not specifying them in the blacklist. If you browse to your phpinfo.php file, you’ll notice the Local Value and Master Value are now different. The local value is the configuration on the domain concerned, the master value is the server wide global configuration. Note: you need to be visiting the phpinfo.php file via the domain or dedicated IP Address of the domain you are making the change for.

The process is exactly the same on servers with cPanel/WHM. The only difference is that editing the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf is discouraged, as future re-compiles of apache and updates of cPanel/WHM can cause the changes to be lost. Instead, each vhost in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file should have one or some of the following lines at the end of the vhost section:

Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/*.conf"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/*.owner-username"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/*.conf"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/*.owner-username"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/*.conf"
Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/*.owner-username"

Don’t worry if you don’t have all of the above lines, or they don’t look exactly the same. So long as you can see an include line to a directory, that is all you need. Go to that directory (in this example I’m using Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/*.conf" and create a file called domainname.conf or username.conf (so long as it ends in .conf). Edit the file and place the following line in it:

php_admin_value suhosin.executor.func.blacklist 'show_source,popen,allow_url_fopen,system'

Save your file and restart apache

/etc/httpd/init.d/httpd restart

Browse to your phpinfo.php file and compare the Local Value against the Master Value. They should be different!

If you have any feedback, troubles or would like some additional assistance, be sure to let me know in the comments.

http://bugs.endian.it/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=1824

In case the bug does not apply to you, or you’re just too lazy to visit, here’s what you need to do.

1. Login via SSH or Locally at the console.

2. Type the following:
htpasswd -m /var/efw/auth/users admin

3. At the Password prompt, type in your new password, retype your password and you’re done!

4. Login to the Endian Firewall Web Administration with your new password

5. Fixed!

Why does this happen?

Well the short of it (from the bug report) is that resetting the password  with a password that contains the ‘$’ symbol or ‘%’ symbol, via the Web Administration interface, well it breaks There is a solution to the problem on the page at the link above if you’re into hacking files and things It’s actually quite simple.

To enable the keyboard shortcut, edit this file:

~\Steam\SteamApps\common\borderlands\WillowGame\Config\DefaultInput.ini

Be sure to make a backup copy of this file first.

Look for these lines:

-Bindings=(Name="PageDown",Command="Camera ThirdPerson")

-Bindings=(Name="End",Command="Camera FirstPerson")

Edit the lines to look like these:

Bindings=(Name="PageDown",Command="Camera ThirdPerson")

Bindings=(Name="End",Command="Camera FirstPerson")

That’s right! Remove the the ‘-’ sign from the beginning of the line, which (if you read the top part of the configuration file, this will all make sense) disables the keyboard shortcut that enables third person view. Save your configuration file and relaunch the game. Once you are in the game, hit the ‘Page Down’ key on your keyboard and you will now be in Third Person View. To switch back to First Person View, hit the ‘End’ key on your keyboard.

Now for the catch. Oh yes, there’s a catch! As I mentioned above, this is all in the name of multi player, and that’s where this little trick falls down a little. If you want to use Third Person View in multi player, you might be out of luck. Like I said, it’s a catch. If the person who wants to use Third Person View, hosts the game; that person will be able to enable the Third Person View on their computer. I haven’t tested this extensively, as there are only two of us playing multi player, but I did notice that only one of us was able to enable third person view, ie, the host.

It is possible to edit the camera position of the third person view. You will need to edit the following file:

~\Steam\SteamApps\common\borderlands\WillowGame\Config\DefaultGame.ini

Be sure to make a backup copy of this file first.

There is a section of this configuration file called:

[WillowGame.WillowPawn]

You can edit the following values:

CameraScale=5.0
CameraScaleRight=2.0
CameraScaleUp=1.0

CameraScale: How close the camera is to your character. The higher the number, the greater the distance

CameraScaleRight: How much left or right the camera is offset from the middle of the character. Higher numbers move the camera to further right, negative values are accepted and move the camera to the left.

CameraScaleUp: How far up the camera is offset from the middle of the character. Higher numbers move the camera further up. Don’t use too negative a number, the camera will end up in the ground!

This forum link here has a number of example values and screen shots to give you an idea of how you can position the camera.

If you have any questions or additional information to add, please do leave your feedback in the comments!

I tried using various tools like gparted (which actually caused me more troubled than it was worth) and diskutil from the MacOSX terminal available via the installation disk. Nothing seemed to work.

For what it’s worth at this point, if you used gparted to try to set the boot flag, or modify the partition in anyway, you may have to give up and re-install. I did this, and was not only unable to see my partition with the disk utility (it showed up as empty space) I could not do anything with it either. It just showed up empty and neither diskutil (via terminal) or Disk Utility were able to use it. I eventually had to delete all partitions except for my data partition (leaving the rest as empty space) and go back to Disk Utility again. I was then able to create a new partition using Disk Utility and restore my Time Machine backup to it.

You can read more about ‘gparted troubles‘ here for a better understanding.

In the end, the following steps solved my problem. I restored my MacOSX partition one last time and rebooted. Same error. I than booted from my MacOSX installation disc and used the ‘repair disk’ option in the Disk Utility. I noticed in the Disk Utility that it actually noted that it corrected my MacOSX boot issue. When complete, I rebooted my system one last time and was finally greeted with my MacOSX login screen. Success!

I caused myself this problem by installing the latest version of MyHack, without really knowing was I was doing. After installing it and rebooting, my system was far worse off than just ‘boot0: error’. Use MyHack if you know what you are doing.

scp -P 22 -r /home/username/local-directory ip-or-hostname-of-remote-server:/home/username/remote-directory.

scp = Secure Copy.

-r = Tecursive (copy the contents of the directory and the contents of any directories inside that directory).

-P = (specifying the port number).

22 = The port number SSH is running on, on the remote server. (That’s right, some of us who are little security conscious, don’t leave SSH running on port 22).

/home/username/local-directory = The local directory on the ‘source’ server, containing the files you want to copy to the remote servers

/home/username/remote-directory = The directory on the ‘destination’ server, where you want to copy the files to.

ip-or-hostname-of-remote-server = The example says it all. Replace this section with the remote IP Address or Hostname of the destination server.

Easy enough? If not, or you would like further examples or assistance, please feel free to ask you questions in the comments.

• IRCBot (ircbot)
• ngIRCd (ngircd)
• Services for IRC (ircservces)
• Shoutcast (sc_serv)
• StreamTranscoder (transcoderv3)
• Openfire

Initially, I searched and searched the internet and found all sorts of solutions dating back to the 1990′s all the way through to 2010. I even managed to cobble something together, but it was pretty terrible and failed sometimes (more often than not actually).

Some readers may have noticed that one of my examples above, already contains an almost perfectly good solution!

Services for IRC (developed primarily by Andrew Church), contains an additional script (once compiled and installed) under the file name of ircservces-chk (located here: /usr/local/sbin/ircservices-chk on most linux distributions). The contents of this file looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Script to check whether IRC Services is running, and restart it if not.
# Usage: ircservices-chk [-q] [ircservices-options]
# -q: don't write any output
# ircservices-options: options to pass to ircservices executable
# If you change PIDFile in ircservices.conf, also change PIDFILE below.
#
# IRC Services is copyright (c) 1996-2009 Andrew Church.
# E-mail:
# Parts written by Andrew Kempe and others.
# This program is free but copyrighted software; see the file GPL.txt for
# details.

PIDFILE=ircservices.pid

if [ "X$1" = "X-q" ] ; then
exec 1>/dev/null
exec 2>/dev/null
shift
fi

ok=
if [ -f "/usr/local/lib/ircservices/$PIDFILE" ] ; then
pid=`cat "/usr/local/lib/ircservices/$PIDFILE"`
if echo "0$pid" | grep -q '[^0-9]' ; then
rm -f "/usr/local/lib/ircservices/$PIDFILE"
elif kill -0 $pid ; then
ok=1
fi
fi

if [ ! "$ok" ] ; then
"/usr/local/sbin/ircservices" "$@"
fi

This script is almost perfect for my use (it does an exactly perfect job for ircservices), but not quite. This script uses the process id (PID) of ircservices to check if it is running or not. That’s ok, but not all programs output their current process ID to a file based location on the system or in any way that’s useful to the end user. I added a line to the beginning of the script, using the pgrep command to output the PID of my selected process to a file.

pgrep process-name > /home/username/a-directory-of-your-choosing/a-file-name-of-your-choosing.pid


Obviously you would replace process-name with the name of the process you want to monitor and username with your actual username.

You can use the command ps aux to list all the processes currently running on your system and locate the process you want to monitor.

The ‘.pid’ file extension isn’t really necessary, however it might be handy for identifying what the file is, should you come across it later on down the track. Here’s my example for checking that ircbot is running:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Script to check whether IRC Services is running, and restart it if not.
# Usage: ircservices-chk [-q] [ircservices-options]
# -q: don't write any output
# ircservices-options: options to pass to ircservices executable
# If you change PIDFile in ircservices.conf, also change PIDFILE below.
#
# IRC Services is copyright (c) 1996-2009 Andrew Church.
# E-mail:
# Parts written by Andrew Kempe and others.
# This program is free but copyrighted software; see the file GPL.txt for
# details.
pgrep ircbot > /home/username/ircbot/ircbot.pid
PIDFILE=ircbot.pid

if [ "X$1" = "X-q" ] ; then
exec 1>/dev/null
exec 2>/dev/null
shift
fi

ok=
if [ -f "/home/username/ircbot/$PIDFILE" ] ; then
pid=`cat "/home/username/ircbot/$PIDFILE"`
if echo "0$pid" | grep -q '[^0-9]' ; then
rm -f "/home/username/ircbot/$PIDFILE"
elif kill -0 $pid ; then
ok=1
fi
fi

if [ ! "$ok" ] ; then

"/home/username/ircbot/ircbot" "$@"
fi


Here’s my final version.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Script to check whether a process is running, and restart it if not.
# Usage: running [-q]
# -q: don't write any output
# Props to Andrew Church (http://www.ircservices.za.net) for creating
# the original script ircservices-chk of which this script you are using
# now is a slight modification by Quin Rose of Mokona Modoki
# http://www.mokonamodoki.com/

pgrep ircbot > /home/username/ircbot/ircbot.pid

PIDFILE=ircbot.pid

if [ "X$1" = "X-q" ] ; then
exec 1>/dev/null
exec 2>/dev/null
shift
fi

ok=
if [ -f "/home/username/ircbot/$PIDFILE" ] ; then
pid=`cat "/home/username/ircbot/$PIDFILE"`
if echo "0$pid" | grep -q '[^0-9]' ; then
rm -f "/home/username/ircbot/$PIDFILE"
elif kill -0 $pid ; then
ok=1
fi
fi

if [ ! "$ok" ] ; then
"/home/username/ircbot/ircbot" "$@"
fi

To use this script, just copy and past the code above into your favourite editor and be sure to save the script, and make it executable with:  chmod +x filename

Last but not least, you don’t want to have to run this script all the time, and manually by yourself do you? Wondering if you can just get put it in a cron job and let it rip? Well, Yes! You can! Add the following line to cron for automatic (once a minute) process checking goodness:

* * * * * /home/andrew/ircbot/ircbot-chk -q

There are plenty of resources on the web relating to cron, so if you would rather have cron execute the script less often, you’ll need to do a little googling.

Adding the -q sends all output from the script to /dev/null (a black hole of sorts) thus not showing any output on the screen. You can test it with or without the -q.

If you have any questions or would like for information or examples, please do let me know in the comments, and I will be only too happy to be of assistance! This certainly helped me, so I thought I would share, so that it could help you too!

For most users, the installation is a breeze and Comodo Time Machine does it’s job. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all of us.

I’ve been installing Comodo Time Machine on systems for a little while now, and more than once, after the initial installation, I get the following error message upon boot up:

Testing Memory <Hexadecimal Value>...

Something went wrong. I don’t know exactly what, and perhaps a helpful reader can fill us in, however at this point, it would seem all is lost. Now, I’ve only tested this so far on PCs with Windows Vista and Windows 7. So if you have Windows XP, you made need to use a little additional effort.

If you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista, possibly like me, your first thought was ‘No worries, I’ll use the System Repair Utility on the my installation media’. This won’t work. ‘Startup Repair’ won’t be able to solve the issue, and neither will rolling back to a ‘System Restore’ point. It simply won’t work, yet.

Even though this is a problem for you, as far as your computer and operating system are concerned, there is no issue. Which is correct. Yes, Comodo Time Machine has failed to install correctly (of which there are many reasons why this may occur, one being lack of space on drive ‘C:’), however that has not really done any harm to your PC. You just simply can’t get into Windows!

If you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista, yes Startup Repair can help you, but first you have to give it something to repair. I was pretty desperate when this first happened to me, and I actually ended up re-installing the entire system. Not the second time around though. No way was I re-installing, especially since I didn’t have a backup of my clients system, and I was working on site without additional PCs to help my efforts.

In come Hirens Boot CD. Admittedly, you could use any number of rescue boot CDs out there on the internet, I happened to have Hirens Boot CD 10.0 which had exactly the tools I needed. In CD/ISO form, Hirens boot CD does contain some software that others would call ‘commercial’ thus I can’t provide you with a download link to the ISO. However, this page, and this page, should get you on the right track.

Once you have the CD prepared (or USB Key), place it in your computer, and boot from it. Most recent computers are capable of booting from a USB device or CD-ROM. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever come across a computer that couldn’t boot from CD-ROM, and I’ve worked on some old PCs!

Don’t try booting the ‘MiniXP’ It’s a little over kill for what we are going to do, although it is a very VERY responsive Windows XP based environment with most of the tools available. MiniXP runs entirely from memory, meaning you can remove the CD or USB Key once it has finished booting! Neat huh?!

Choose to ‘StartBootCD’. At the ‘Hirens All in 1 BootCD 10.1 Menu’ menu, you’ll need to use your keyboard to select option 9, then select option 1, then select option 2. You should now have MBRtool loaded.

This program requires just a little understanding about the configuration of your HDDs in your computer. For simplicity sake however, if your computer only has one HDD with only one partition on it, the following instructions will work just fine. If your computer has multiple HDDs, and you don’t boot from the otherwise known as the ‘first HDD’ then you need to pay attention to the screen and modify the instructions below accordingly. Feel free to ask for help in the comments below.

Enter 4 and press [Enter]

Enter 6 and press [Enter]

Enter 0 and press [Enter] (Zero)

Enter o and press [Enter] (O, as in the circled shaped letter for Orange) <– This final step will wipe your MBR straight away, no questions asked. If you are feeling concerned, nervous or worried at this point, I suggest you reboot again and use another program on the CD called ‘ghost’ to clone your HDD in its current state to a safe location.

Remember, I said we need to give Windows 7 / Windows Vista Startup Repair tool, something to fix? Well, now it has something to fix!

Press the [ESC] key three times to return you to the DOS prompt. Remove the CD/USB, put your Windows 7 or Windows Vista installation media in the drive and type: reboot (followed by a press of the enter key). Be sure to boot from your newly inserted installation media again.

After selecting your language, Time and currency format and Keyboard or input method, click Next. Click the text link ‘Repair your computer’. The ‘System Recovery Options’ window will appear. Don’t be alarmed at the fact that it doesn’t detect your installed operating system (Windows 7 or Windows Vista), this is what we want!

Click the next button, and from the main menu choose ‘Startup Repair’. This process should only take a few seconds. If you want some assurance it worked, click the ‘Click here for diagnostic and repair details’ link and scroll to the bottom. You should see something like this:


Root cause found:
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MBR is corrupt
Repair action: Disk metadata repair
Result: Completed succesfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = ####ms
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Click the Close button and click the Finish button. Your system should automatically reboot. If not, click the Restart button.

Hopefully you are now staring at your Windows 7 / Windows Vista logon screen or desktop!

For Windows XP Users

 Thankfully Windows XP has something  a little less evolved, but no less powerful called ‘The Recovery Console’. To access it, you’ll need an original Windows XP (SP1/2/3) installation media disc. Boot from the media and when prompted, press the R key.

When you are asked for the Administrator password, enter it. If you are on Windows XP Home, and you’ve never configured an Administrator password, chances are it’s blank, so just press enter. This may apply to some Windows XP Professional users as well.

At the prompt, assuming you have Windows XP installed to C:\> type:

fixmbr

Ignore the warnings, unless you understand what they are (your situation couldn’t get any worse at this point anyway), and press the [Y] key followed by pressing the [Enter] key.

Type:

exit

to leave the recovery console and reboot. Hopefully you are now staring at your Windows XP Logon screen or desktop!

Why Does This Work?

When you install Comodo Time Machine, it makes a modification to your HDD MBR (Master Boot Record) telling your computer to first boot Comodo Time Machine (instead of your Windows OS), which in turn is configured to boot your Windows OS. When we use MBRtool to erase your MBR, we then use one of the options above to rebuild or repair your MBR. Regardless of Windows XP, Vista or 7, your MBR will be repaired/rebuilt to only boot your Windows OS again! By passing Comodo Time Machine altogether.

What About Comodo Time Machine?

It’s up to you. If you try again and it fails, you know now you have a way to get things working again. Having said that, I’ve had an almost 100% success rate when installing Comodo Time Machine again the second time around. I don’t why sometimes it fails the first time around like it does, it just does.

Any comments, improvements or criticism is welcome.

Kudos to qmchenry at Tech-Recipes for the Windows XP Recovery Console instructions, where you can find additional comments and instructions about it’s use.

On your Windows 7 Machines:

1. Access the ‘Run’ command (otherwise known as the run box). If you can’t see it in your Start Menu, try enabling it in the ‘Superbar’ (the Task Bar) properties or on your keyboard press the ‘Windows’ (WIN) key and the ‘R’ key at the same time.
2. Type: gpedit.msc (press enter or click OK)
3. Make your way down through Computer Configuration
   1. Windows Settings
      1. Security Settings
         1. Local Policies
            1. Security Options
            2. And double click on ‘Network security: LAN Manager authentication level’
               1. Click the drop down box and select the option ‘Send LM & NTLM Responses’
               2. Click OK
4. Close the Local Group Policy Editor.
5. Done! Try accessing file and printer shares on your Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines from your Windows 7 machines.

More information (as technical as it is) can be found here.

Install CentOS 5.3 32/64 Bit

If you haven’t installed CentOS 5.3 already, you should do so. Kinda hard to use VMware Server 1.0.9 without an operating system. Most people want the host OS to have as little additional crap as possible. In regards to that, during the installation, make a point of not installing any additional packages, or package groups except the ‘Base’ group (oh and leave the base group in it’s default state, don’t go ticking on any extras, you’ll make the installation install more dependancies thus more crap). So in other words, only the ‘Base’ group should be ticked, untick the rest!

Nope, you won’t have any GUI, and even if you did, you still have to do the rest of the configuration at the command line anyway. VMware Server 1.0.9 host with GUI = bad idea, unless of course your host is also your desktop.

Once installed, configure your host as you like it from the ‘firstboot’ screen and than login as root. Here’s a few tips.

• Disable any services you aren’t using.
• Disable SE Linux
• Unless you’re going to configure and use it with VMware Server 1.0.9 machines, disable ip6tables
• Don’t go configuring special firewall rules just yet, leave that until later.

Even though it’s the host, its’ software should still be up to date. Issue the following command and download any updates.

yum update

Updates finished? Awesome! Lets reboot the server and start the next step afresh.

shutdown -r now

Install VMware Server 1.0.9 Required Components.

Plenty of you will argue about what you do and don’t need to complete the install. Well, I’ve completed this configuration of server with VMware Server more times than I care to remember now, and sometimes I needed all of these packages and sometimes I didn’t. No, I didn’t bother to find out why. Do you know why? Great! Put it in the comments!

Login in as root and issue the following commands one after the other. Yes, you can issue them all at once if you’re clever, I like to take my time, in case the worlds explodes.

yum install kernel-devel
yum install kernel-headers
yum install libXtst*
yum install xinetd
yum install gcc*

On a couple of occasions, I needed the following package – It could have been when I was using CentOS 5.3 64Bit

yum install libXdmcp-devel
yum install libXrender*

What does the ‘*’ mean? It means grab any packages that start with ‘anytextbeforethe*’

Installed all the packages? Fantastic! Lets reboot the server and start the next step afresh.

shutdown -r now

Install VMware Server 1.0.9

How you get the installation package of VMware Server 1.0.9 onto your server is up to you. Here are a few tips.

• Download VMware Server 1.0.9 Here or Here
• Make sure you register for a VMware Server serial number or numbers. It’s free.
• You can use WinSCP to transfer VMware Server 1.0.9. to your server (it uses SSH). Get it Here or Here.
• You could use the wget command with the direct link above, directly on your server, like this:
  • wget -c http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.9-156507.i386.rpm
• Burn it to a CD
• Burn it to a DVD
• Transfer it to a USB Drive

Once you have the VMware Server 1.0.9 installation file on your server, installing is pretty straight forward. If you’ve never installed a RPM file before, pay attention, people go to university for this stuff. Make sure you are logged in as root, and issue the following:

rpm -ivh VMware-server-1.0.9-156507.i386.rpm

Easy, no?

Depending on the power of your server, it may take a few minutes to install. Once installed, we have one last final step. No need to reboot this time!

Configuring VMware Server 1.0.9

Issue the following command. If some or none of the required packages are not installed, this will tell you straight away.

vmware-config.pl

or if you are so inclined:

/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

Both do the exact same thing. Don’t run both (either by concatenating them both together or one after the other), that would just be silly and make you leave a comment about how you ran both and got an error message.

NB: If you are told that some packages or components are missing, I suggest going back and re-issuing the ‘yum’ commands above in the section ‘Install VMware Server 1.0.9 Required Components‘. Before you issue any commands, press ctrl-c to quit the setup program and return to the command prompt.

If you see something like the following, you are good to go:

Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped.

Stopping VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                 [  OK  ]

You must read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue.
Press enter to display it.

The configuration settings of VMware Server 1.0.9 is now up to you. Here are a few tips:

• Accept the agreement, type Y or Yes and press the enter key.
• The defaults are all fine.
• In most cases, Bridged networking is what you are after, so say ‘No’ to host only and NAT (unless you know what they are and you are going to use them)
• Sometimes the installation would tell me that port 902 is unavailable. This is not true. Override by typing in 902, otherwise you’ll need to remember 904 (or whatever other number you select) and type it in every time when you use the VMware Server 1.0.9 client. Not cool.
• At the very least, choose your own location for the storage of VMware Server 1.0.9 servers. I always put mine in /home/vmware (because I have /home on a separate partition)
• Put your Serial Key in now, rather than later.

Installation and Configuration is now complete! If you need any further help / assistance, please, feel free to leave a comment

My Predicament.
A server (a Dell SC440), with two physical network interfaces. Our office has two ISP connections (DSL broadband). We have the one internal network range (192.168.1.0/24) with two gateways (1.254 and 1.221).

I have installed Promox on the server. I wanted to be able to choose which gateway the guest containers used, instead of them being locked into using the same gateway as the host server. Some of the guest OS containers will host services via the first ISP, and the others will host services via the second ISP. (obviously with firewall rules etc configured in our gateways). So the container gateway entries need to point to their respective ISP/Gateway.

Note: While the security advantage of venet over veth is certainly worthwhile in a hosting environment (and others as well), in my case, we have two hardware firewalls that haven’t let us down yet, and there is little to no concern for the possibility of an internal hacker (there are only three of us!)

Solution 1. Requires the most effort, but gives the most flexibility.

I decided to configure the host with a vmbr0 device that contains a bond0 device, that contains devices eth0 and eth1 (you can look at the video tutorials on pve.proxmox.com for anyone unsure of how to create a bond0) – I configured the bond0 with an IP address that matches our office network (this address doesn’t matter in regards to the containers, just makes the host easy to access if it’s on the same network).

Creating the network bond is meaningless (except for redundancy reasons), so long as you end up with an accessible vmbrX device, that contains either ethX or bondX, you’re good to go. Bonding network devices in linux is close to using the ‘join to network bridge’ feature available in Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 when you have two similiar Ethernet network devices.

When creating a new container in the web interface, instead of choosing Virtual Network (venet) choose Bridged Ethernet (veth) instead.

It has been pointed out to me, that veth is not as secure as venet (which is true), however veth does give your guest container OS direct access to the network, in a smiliar fashion to the way VMware server can give a guest OS direct access to a physical network using Bridged Ethernet.

Once your guest OS container is up and running, you’ll need to use the “Open VNC Console” link on the container’s General page, in the proxmox web interface, to get console access to the container, so that you can manually configure your network interfaces. Instead of configuring venet0:0 or similiar devices, you’ll be back to configuring eth0 or similiar devices. In CentOS, these turn out to be ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-lo. If you are unsure of how to do this manually, I suggest googling for some answers, or in CentOS, you can use a tool (if it’s available in your guest OS template) called system-config-network-tui. It’s available via Yum if you don’t have it.

Easy way to get it
1. Create a container with CentOS
2. Assigned it an IP Address using Virtual Network (venet)
3. Login via the VNC console or SSH and issue: yum install system-config-network-tui
4. Logout
5. Use the Proxmox web interface to shutdown the container
6. Remove the Virtual Network Adapter (venet) by deleting the IP Address and clicking Save.
7. The page will refresh and you can now select vmbr0 from the Bridged Ethernet Devices section. Click Save.
8. Start your container
9. Login via VNC Console and issue: system-config-network-tui
10. You’re on your own from here. Remember, you need to configure eth0 not venet0 and venet0:0 – you may want to remove these. Don’t forget to set your gateway and edit your DNS
11. Restart your network with /etc/init.d/network restart

Solution 2. Requires less effort, doesn’t necassarily give as much flexibility, but increases security.

You can edit your /etc/network/interfaces file on the host (the server with Proxmox installed). It’s actually kinda easy. This option also lets you avoid having to edit the network settings inside your guest container OS. So you can create plenty of containers, without have to edit each one! Neat!

Remember: I have two Gateways. 1.254 and 1.221 and my server has two network interfaces.

I could configure each of the network interfaces with two different networks. For example: NIC1: 192.168.1.0/24 with a gateway of 192.168.1.254 and NIC2: 192.168.4.0/24 with a gateway of 192.168.4.254.

There is no point in configuring both interfaces with the same network, for example: NIC1: 192.168.1.200 with a gateway of 192.168.1.254 and NIC2: 192.168.1.205 with a gateway of 192.168.1.221. The host (and consequently any guest container OS) will always use the gateway configured in eth0). If there is a way around this, I wasn’t able to figure it out.

By configuring each NIC with a separate network (192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.4.0/24), I can make a guest container OS use the gateway of the 192.168.4.0/24 network, by giving it an IP Address like: 192.168.4.54, or make a guest container OS use the gateway of the 192.168.1.0/24 network, by giving it an IP Address like: 192.168.1.54.

However, we’re not done yet. Here’s how you do it. In the Web Interface, I again configured my network as follows. This could be done in a variety of ways, so long as you end up with a vmbr0.

I created a bond0, that contained eth0 and eth1. I then created a vmbr0 that contained bond0. I set the IP address of vmbr0 to 192.168.1.230 – so I could access it again after reboot. I didn’t configure IP Addresses anywhere else.

After rebooting, I edited my /etc/network/interfaces file

On the host I issused: nano /etc/network/interfaces (I love nano, I know it’s for noobs but I can’t get my head around vi, I’ve used nano for too long!)

At the bottom of my /etc/network/interfaces file I added

auto vmbr0:0
iface vmbr0:0 inet static
address 192.168.4.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.4.254

auto vmbr0:1
iface vmbr0:0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254

DNS can be configured individually for each container using the proxmox web interface, or in my case of using CentOS, by editing the resov.conf file inside my guest container OS. Do what is easiest for you. You can also use system-config-network-tui.

Once I had modified by /etc/network/interfaces file, I saved and than restarted the network service by issuing: /etc/init.d/networking restart

I next created guest OS containers, with IP addresses that matched the network of the gateway that I wanted to use. In this situation, the guest container OS’s can also commuinicate with each other, even though they may be using different networks, thanks to the host. Handy, no?

In the end for me, I am using Solution 1. Mainly because we are not running a hosting company, rather just running services on our network and migrating away from VMware, so configuring network settings manually in this case, isn’t a big issue. In the proxmox web interface, I added the IP Address of each container, into the comments section for future reference.

If I was to use Solution 2, in our case we would have to change the IP Address of not only the gateway, but also many other devices also currently using the 192.168.1.0/24 network. We would inevitibly have to implement a routing solution to allow nodes on each network (1.0 and 4.0), to communicate with devices on either network, as is the case with most devices communicating with each other now.

As I said above, this is not necassarily the best or only solution, it is however what I was able to come up with. Comments, suggestions and improvements are welcome.

If someone can help me get the security of using venet instead of veth (and manually configuring the containers) and be able to get each of my containers to use one gateway or the other, all on the one network, without having to edit the container network settings, well then that would be awesome!

Recently, we came across a conundrum concerning the computer game Sacred 2 running under Windows 7. Long story short, it just wouldn’t work. It should be noted that the reason for this not working, has nothing to do with Nvidia / ATI Graphics cards, but it is related to Physx/Ageia. Make sure you have the latest version of Physx installed. Sacred 2 does come with the last version of Physx known as Ageia Physx (before nvidia bought it and rebranded it to just Physx). You can also obtain the latest stand alone Physx package from the nvidia website. Even if you have an ATI graphics card, you still need to have this installed to play Sacred 2 and any other games that require Physx. So long as your CPU supports it and it is powerful enough, you’ll get CPU powered physics, instead of physics powered by your graphics card. Some people call this “Software Physics” or “Software” mode. I’ve noticed no performance difference between a computer playing Sacred 2 with an Nvidia graphics card and a computer with an ATI graphics card.

This fix should work for owners of Sacred 2 under Windows 7, regardless of the version  you have (Steam, Impulse, Stand alone or whatever).

1. Create a shortcut to the Sacred 2 executable. You’ll find it in the game directory, in another directory called ‘system’. For me, it is: D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Sacred 2\System\Sacred2.exe
2. Put the shortcut on your desktop, or somewhere handy.
3. Right click the shortcut and select properties
4. Click the Shortcut tab
5. In the Target field, you need to add the following: -skipopenal -nocpubinding. The contents of my Target field look like this: "D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\sacred 2\system\sacred2.exe" -skipopenal -nocpubinding
6. Click Apply and Click OK.
7. Double click the shortcut and play Sacred 2!

Still can’t get it to work? Leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do to help you out. Further comments and suggestions are welcome. These are just simply the steps that worked for us. In case you are wondering, we are using the RTM (Release To Manfacture) version of Windows 7 (we are Microsoft Technet Partners). This is the same version that is available to consumers and end users as of mid October 2009.

Task 2 completed, Task 3 almost completed. At this rate you’ll have everything done by week 18 easily! Keep up the great work, you’ve kept on track all year, well done!

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CAFC – S2 Week 16 – Lesson Notes

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Only two more weeks to go!

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CAFC – S2 Week 15 – Lesson Notes 1

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CAFC – S2 Week 13 – Lesson Notes

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Remember: You’ve only got 5 more weeks left to get your project completed. If you don’t have at least half your photos edited, and a PowerPoint presentation at least planned, then you need to do some catching up!

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CAFC – S2 Week 11 – Lesson Notes

 See you next lesson!

Remember; I put these links and resources here for your use. So if they are of no use to you, too hard to understand or you feel they are off topic, then please let me know, via any of the communication channels you have with me. I am more then happy to make changes, source better content or even create fresh content from scratch, just for you! You need only ask … nicely!

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So, in mathematical terms: classroom pariticpation and discussion == no quiz at the end of the term!

Certificate 1 – S2 Week 11 Lesson Notes 1

Certificate 1 – S2 Week 11 Lesson Notes 2

There will not be a follow up video tutorial for this session.

Remember; I put these links and resources here for your use. So if they are of no use to you, too hard to understand or you feel they are off topic, then please let me know, via any of the communication channels you have with me. I am more then happy to make changes, source better content or even create fresh content from scratch, just for you! You need only ask … nicely!

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There were no additional notes or follow up video tutorials for this lesson.

Remember; I put these links and resources here for your use. So if they are of no use to you, too hard to understand or you feel they are off topic, then please let me know, via any of the communication channels you have with me. I am more then happy to make changes, source better content or even create fresh content from scratch, just for you! You need only ask … nicely!

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CAFC – S2 Week 10 – Lesson Notes

Remember: Our next lesson is on the 16th October 2008. This will be a short 8 week term, so try not to miss any lessons.

See you next lesson!

Remember; I put these links and resources here for your use. So if they are of no use to you, too hard to understand or you feel they are off topic, then please let me know, via any of the communication channels you have with me. I am more then happy to make changes, source better content or even create fresh content from scratch, just for you! You need only ask … nicely!

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Certificate 1 – S2 Week 10 – Outlook 2007 Notes 1

Certificate 1 – S2 Week 10 – Outlook 2007 Notes 2

Remember: Our next lesson is on the 16th of October 2008. This will be a short 8 week term, so try not to miss any lessons.

Remember; I put these links and resources here for your use. So if they are of no use to you, too hard to understand or you feel they are off topic, then please let me know, via any of the communication channels you have with me. I am more then happy to make changes, source better content or even create fresh content from scratch, just for you! You need only ask … nicely!

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I will be more then happy to assist each of you with your project. I will also do small tutorial lessons to achieve certain affects with your photos.

Remember: our next lesson is on the 15th of October 2008. This will only be a short 8 week term, so try not to miss any lessons.

Digital Media – S2 Week 10 – Photoshop Tutorial

Digital Media – Project

Remember; I put these links and resources here for your use. So if they are of no use to you, too hard to understand or you feel they are off topic, then please let me know, via any of the communication channels you have with me. I am more then happy to make changes, source better content or even create fresh content from scratch, just for you! You need only ask … nicely!

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Remember: Our next lesson is on the 15th October 2008.

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