IT Systems Engineering
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Reset default File Type Associations in Windows
Here is a life saver. Someone at work changed the .lnk files by mistake in her workstation. She was playing around with Cygwin. Somehow all the shortcuts in the start menu were messed up. This rendered her Windows 7 workstation unusable. We downloaded the .reg file to reset LNK files associations from this page and it worked fine (after a reboot): Default File Type Associations – Restore – Windows 7 Forums
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Test a Java SSL connection
Here is how to do some serious troubleshooting while configuring a SSL certificate on Weblogic or Tomcat or Apache: Test a Java SSL connection
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P2V of server having GPT disks
Ok so I ran into a problem while doing P2V to Xenserver. We have a few servers which have a UEFI BIOS, Their disks are configured as GPT. I have tried these two tools to do a P2V but have been unsuccessful: 1. Citrix’s Xenconverter and 2. VMware’s vCenter Converter
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How to reset password on Solaris’ ALOM
So I inherited a bunch of old Sun Solaris T2000 boxes. They have ALOM on them, cool! but how do I access it over the network? Neither do I know the IP address configured for the ALOM network interfaces, nor do I know the password. Here is how to reset ALOM’s parameters and start fresh.
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How to make a USB drive bootable
These steps must be done on a Windows 7 or Server 2008 computer. WARNING!This process will permanently erase any data on the USB flash drive!