Where I work we have dozens and dozens of old ThinkPad laptops. A lot of these can be reused but not for our needs. They have been long since replaced. The higher-ups have decided to donate them to charity. For better or for worse I have been tasked with reimaging them.
I took a laptop and installed the factory copy of Windows, updated it, configured it appropriately.
Now I'm trying to reimage it to dozens of other laptops. What's some good software to do this? First I used clonezilla to clone the hdd in the laptop to an internal drive in an external enclosure and it worked. Then I tried taking the base image out and connecting it externally to a laptop that needed to be imaged and I got it to work a few times. So far so good, right?
Well once I informed my boss of my findings and what I would want to do then the images started to not work on new laptops. One of three things would happen:
The Thinkpads would just blink at me and Windows wouldn't load.
Or Windows would load but freeze within two minutes.
Last but not least the laptops would BSOD during the Windows XP bootup.
These laptops are not going to be used by the company. They're going to charity. So can anyone else recommend a way to reimage multiple laptops?
Can you provide a link to an up-to-date tutorial for setting up Linux with 3 monitors? Specifically, I want to set up 2 different nvidia video cards with 3 monitors. I can already do 2 monitors on 1 video card, so I am not interested in those tutorials.
I would assume that I can just take my HDD out of my NAS (in raid1 mirror) and plug it into another enclosure and have it work off the bat but I'd like to make sure...
Any ideas?
Edit:
My current setup is a Netgear ReadyNAS in (hardware) raid1. I'm hoping to replace this with a home theatre type PC (possibly running Ubuntu), and would like to migrate my data without having to do a bulk transfer over my network between the 2 machines.
Can anyone confirm the case for the Netgear ReadyNAS?
I'm running Windows 7 on a dual core, x64 AMD with 8GB RAM.
Do I even need a pagefile?
Will removing it help or hurt performance?
Would it make a difference if this is a server or a desktop?
Does Windows 7 vs. Windows 2008 make a difference with a page file?
I have downloaded many add ons for my PC at work and I would like to copy them to my home PC.
Is there a way to automate this process and export all the installed add-ons?
When I type in a nonexistent command it says "Command not found." and then waits for about 5 seconds before showing the prompt again.
How do I fix that?
I am using ubuntu 11.04 virtual image with VMWare Player 4.0.2 build-591240. Because I found that the folder that holds the VMWare image goes to 8GB and want to shrink the size by using the utilities tool provided by the VMWare Image Player.
However, I found that the button is disabled like this.
Question How to enable the button so that I can use it to shrink the size of virtual image used by ubuntu?
Question If I cannot enable the button, is there another way that I can shrink the size of used space?
Thank you
Is it possible to determine whether a CD was burned by a particular CD/DVD burner? Is there any identifier of that burner that is always written to any disc it burns?
This is something I'd like to know for my coursework in Computing Forensics. I'm personally much interested to find out. I never thought about this much...
I have a list of IP addresses on a network, and most of them support multicast DNS. I'd like to be able to resolve the server name instead of just having the IP address.
ping computer.local
64 bytes from 192.168.0.52: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.510 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.52: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=5.396 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.52: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=5.273 ms
Works, but I'd like to be able to determine that name from the IP. Also the devices don't necessarily broadcast any services, but definitely do support mDNS broadcast. So looking through services won't work.
I tried to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, during the upgrade process I receive the following error:
Sorry, it looks like this PC can't run Windows 8.1. This might be
because the Users or Program Files folder is being redirected to
another partition.
Which is accurate in that I have my Users directory on my D: drive and Windows installed on my C: drive. I do this because my C: drive is an SSD drive and D: drive is a spinning rust drive where I keep my data. Is it possible to upgrade to Windows 8.1 from a Windows 8 install with a redirected Users folder?
I do not consider a full reinstall of Windows 8 with a non-mapped Users folder and then upgrading that installation to be "upgrading."
EDIT 2: One way would be to disable script-fu. Does anyone know how to disable it at startup?
Is it possible? Would GIMP still work? What wouldn't work? Could I start it later, after loading?
Is there any way to speed up GIMP's startup time on Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit 1.6 [Dual] Intel Processors? On XP [different computer], it loads in less than 3 seconds. On Vista, it takes 20 seconds:
2 Seconds (other - fonts, brushes,
etc)
18 Seconds (extension-script-fu)
It just freezes at extension-script-fu. Looking at Process Explorer, I see that it's not taking any CPU at all. EDIT 1: It does seem to be taking 50% of the CPU.
It gets stuck for about 18 seconds, and then starts working again. Then, the actual GIMP program pops up [...finally]. I have the latest stable version running (I think). I tried it with XP SP2 Compatibiliy mode and/or Run As Administrator, but that didn't help.
I've inserted a sweet SSD into my MacBook Pro, but it had limited space. So I had to export 60 GB of Data to an external hard drive. But now, when I run TimeMachine to backup my stuff, of course it only backups what's on the system disk.
Is there a way how to also backup the connected external hard drive together with TimeMachine? Maybe there's a trick to get this work, with a fake folder that's actually the mounted drive? What could I do?
I would like to achieve something similar to what wordpress.com does - giving each user its own subdomain. user1.wordpress.com would in the VirtualHosts setup of Apache would have its DocRoot at /user/user1, for instance.
Now, our hosting service provider takes a fee for creating a domain, and in our case this would mean a ridiculous number of domains with a matching price. After some googling on DNS I came over a description of a DNAME record. That seems to fit the bill precisely. Any reason why my service provider would not do this, or why I should not do this?
I've been struggling to set up a valid configuration to open a connection with a second machine, passing through another one, and using an id_rsa (which requests me a password) to connect to the third machine.
I've asked this question in another forum, but I've received no answer that could be considered very helpful.
The problem, better described, goes as follows:
Local machine: user1@localhost
Intermediary machine: user1@inter
Remote target: user2@final
I'm able to do the entire connection using pseudo-tty:
ssh -t inter ssh user2@final
(this will ask me the password for the id_rsa file I have in machine "inter")
However, for speeding things up, I'd like to set my .ssh/config file, so that I can simply connect to machine "final" using:
ssh final
What I've got so far -- which does not work -- is, in my .ssh/config file:
Host inter
User user1
HostName inter.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Host final
User user2
HostName final.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_2
ProxyCommand ssh inter nc %h %p
The id_rsa file is used to connect to the middle machine (this requires me no password typing), and id_rsa_2 file is used to connect to machine "final" (this one requests a password).
I've tried mixing up some LocalForward and/or RemoteForward fields, and putting the id_rsa files in both first and second machines, but I could not seem to succeed with no configuration whatsoever.
Hope somebody can help me here!
Regards!
P.S.: the thread I've tried to get some help from:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/proxycommand-on-ssh-config-file-4175433750/
Welcome,
Any idea how can i create "virtual" listening port on my Ubuntu computer porting for remote IP ?
I mean, something like this.
When i write telnet 127.0.0.1 555
I want get connection to computer 192.168.0.21 on port 555 (where i have my server).
Any idea ?
I have been looking into this for a while and have attempted quite a few "solutions" (hackintosh boot images, universal unlockers, etc) before I gave in and asked for help. I know this is extremely difficult to accomplish, especially with an AMD CPU, but it has been done and it can't hurt to ask.
Question
Does anyone know of any way to actually get Mac OS X Lion (10.7.3) to boot in VMware Workstation 8.0.2?
I know that Mac OS X is heavily dependant on hardware configuration, so I will post my PC's hardware below, if it helps. As far as I know it's only reliant on the CPU, but I will post it all just in case.
PC Hardware
Motherboard: ASUS M4A77T
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition
Graphics Card: Palit Sonic Platinum nVIDIA Geforce GTX 460
Memory: G-Skill [RipjawsX F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL] 8GB
PSU: Arctic Power 700(W)
Hard Drive: SAMSUNG HD204UI 2TB
Thanks in advance. :)
I saw a similar question for linux, but nothing for windows. I'm getting a new 1TB drive for my dev box @ work. The OS will be Windows 7 Pro with 8GB of RAM and just the single 1TB drive. Backups are not a concern, and I won't be storing large multimedia files. I want the fastest possible performance for general windows usage and for compilation. I will defrag nightly with a smart defragger liker perfectdisk.
Should I just go with a single partition, or is there some way I can lay things out for the best performance?
I'm looking for a good tool (web site or not) that I can use to do a simple check whether my web server is accessible from outside LAN (it's serving in a non-standard port).
To give some context, I've gone through this problem: can't access my ip from outside. Even the tools I've found are not really working.
Currently to fetch the html I serve with the online bash tool I do:
curl <my ip>:<my port> \
| sed 's/&/\&/g; s/</\</g; s/>/\>/g; s/"/\"/g; s/'"'"'/\'/g'
I'm looking for a simple tool that can display the html properly, or just show raw text without resorting to sed html escaping and curl.
Hello,
is there a short tutorial available which shows how I can set up a small Linux server on Amazon EC2 so that I can configure it and launch it when needed?
I understand that there is EBS to provide a persistent storage and that an image can be booted right from EBS.
There are also existing images which are perfect starting points, with Linux installed, so I simply have to 'copy' somehow an existing image to EBS, and configure it there. Is there some article which guides through these steps?
Here is a situation I am facing,
there is USB printer which works only on a Windows XP machine,
there are other devices in LAN it is a Small Office Home Office environment.
How can this USB printer attached to Windows XP machine be shared so that other laptops or users in Network who have Windows 7 or Linux on their laptops can use this printer.
The printer model number is Canon Laser Shot LBP-1210
http://www.canon-europe.com/For_Home/Product_Finder/Printers/Laser/LaserShot_LBP1210/index.asp
a print server is not available to me I need to make it work in this situation only.What can I do?
the clients are unable to connect to this.It is not a network or TCP/IP printer
If a from Windows 7 machine some one wants to use this printer so that he can take a print he gets an error while adding the printer to his machine which is a Windows 7 machine (where as the printer is USB printer on Windows XP machine)
Start--->Devices and Printers---> Add Printer---> Find Printer by name or IP address--->Selected a shared printer by name-->\\PC-Name-printer3
and select browse it gives a message Windows can not find a driver for Canon LASER SHOT LBP-1210 on the network what does this mean do I need to install some kind of software at client machine or on themachine where printer is present?
I have a setup of several Tomcat servers distributed between a few servers, all running the same thing. Apache is on top of Apache and a loadbalancer in front of the Apache servers. I want to cluster the Tomcats using Shared Session to minimize downtime and user interruption while deploying apps.
I know clustering works within the same server but is it possible to setup Tomcat in a way that it shares sessions between servers on different machines?
= Server 1
== Apache 1
=== Tomcat 1
= Server 2
== Apache 2
=== Tomcat 2
When Server/Tomcat 1 would be taken down, users and their sessions would transfer over to Server/Tomcat 2 and vice versa.
I need to connect to hostB using user2 from hostA where I´m connected using user1.
I've run ssh-keygen -t rsa on hostA and copied the public key generated in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of user2 in hostB.
Then I tried to connect from hostA to hostB using the command:
$user1@hostA> ssh user2@hostB
I still get a request for password:
user2@hostB's password:
If I try to connect using the same user on both hosts, it works correctly:
$user1@hostA> ssh user1@hostB
Enter passphrase for key '/home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa':
What am I missing?
Goal
I would like to add two more hard drives to my current RAID 1 setup and create a RAID 0 setup on top of the two RAID 1 setups (which I believe is referred to as "RAID 10").
Components Involved
Intel P68 Chipset Motherboard
4 SATA ports that can be configured for Raid
An intel SSD cache that sits in front of the RAID, and a 64 GB SSD configured in that manner
Two 1TB HDDs configured in RAID 1
OS: Windows 7 Professional
Resources Consulted so far
I found a great resource on LinuxQuestions.org for a good "best practices" process for Linux machines, but I'd like to develop a similar process that I know works on Windows Machines.