I botched my boot record and windows 10 home said it couldn’t boot. I tried inserting the Windows Enterprise LTSB installation disk from work and running Repair your computer but it said it couldn’t fix the problem. Since Microsoft automagically updated my Windows 7 Home to Windows 10 Home there is no Windows 10 Home DVD…
Category: Technical
GRUB Re-Install after Windows
Fix for the various instances in which the GRUB boot loader on a multi-boot system gets trashed, by way of example but not by way of limitation, when installing Windows. A different process that inspired these steps I found here http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245. Being a basic old, grouchy, lazy IT guy, I did it this way instead. Notes…
Bible Reading Program updated 30 SEP 2015
The BRP Bible Reading Program released in 2008 has been updated to prepare for the changes in PHP v7.0 and improve the code some. This would be a good time for feature requests. Individual files can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/brp/files/brp2015/. A .zip archive is also attached here.
IPv4 No More!
ARIN is about to announce there are no IPv4 addresses and procedures (see links) for those waiting to receive them. Organizations will eventually need to start using IPv6 alongside IPv4 to transition, and possibly ten years out IPv4 will not be in common use. None of the articles herein deal with the issue of irreplaceable IPv4 only legacy systems, such as building access control, fire, HVAC, and security panels.
Emailing yourself your nightly maintenance logs
I run a nightly maintenance job on the computers in my lab to virus scan their Microsoft partitions and be sure their Linux partition is updated. I want the log files emailed to myself for review the next day. I found a simple command line program that is in the Ubuntu / MINT repository and solves all this without need for any configuring. Five minutes work, tops. Tells you if the mail was sent successfully or not.