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Solutions Log

A pragmatic collection of solutions to problems encountered, turds hunted, lessons learned

VirtualBox BSOD on Windows 10

Branch Office to AWS VPC - A Juniper Story

Compute SSH Public Key Fingerprint

Unable to Browse Windows Network Shares in Ubuntu

Slow Remote Login on OpenSolaris

Empathy Reports Network Error When Connecting to MSN

Updating rubygems on Ubuntu

Add Certificate to Java Keystore on OS X

rsyslog consumes excessive memory when forwarding logs with compression

/etc/hosts entries not being used for non-root users

The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period

Git Subtree Merge and git-svn

Commit a linear git history to subversion

Reformat and reindent an XML file

xinetd per_source limit issues

Reset The Windows Update Catalog

Reset HP Integrated Lights Out Board to Factory Defaults

Honor Guest IDE/SATA Flush Requests

Replace Pipes with Tabs in a Delimited File

Remove a Range of Unwanted ZFS Snapshots from the Command Line

Disable X in OpenSolaris

Create a pidof command to find PID numbers easily

Strip empty (null) lines from a file

Disable Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Device Manager does not display devices that are not connected

Clear Spotlight Index

Disable disk checking during boot on Linux systems

Convert a .dmg to a .iso

Mirror a Directory Structure Using the Command Line

C compiler cannot create executables received after emerge world

Shrink VirtualBox vdisks After Freeing Space (Windows guests)

Create a Large File For Testing

Remote Mirroring Using nc and dd

PowerDNS continually dies after creating a slave zone

Intel Matrix Storage Console Reports SATA Drives as Generation 1 not 2

Cannot SSH into PIX/ASA firewall

rsync failed to set times on [filename]

Create thumbnails en-masse from a bash prompt

Install VMware Tools on a Gentoo Guest

Logical Volume Expansion with Linux

How To Backup data using Amanda and Amazon S3

Amanda amlabel CURL error: SSL certificate problem when using S3 buckets

Where to score xVM Guest Additions

Setting up hosts.allow

Count the number of characters (or columns) in a file

Convert text file to UTF-8 encoding from the shell

Sort files according to their size

Change the UUID of a VirtualBox vdi disk file

Add syslog forwarding host to syslog-ng

gunzip and un-tar in a single command

Cannot join OpenSolaris CIFS service to Windows 2008 Domain

Ensure changes to ulimit parameters persist

Recursively delete .svn directories

Interactive Command-line File Encryption

Flush DNS cache in OS X

Setting up public key authentication over SSH

Remove SSL key file pass-phrase

Turn off Sun system beep

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