Konstantin Antselovich

Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset

Friday, August 21st, 2009

tools to build MSI packages based on XML scenario files

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TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…

Posted in for:charlesnw, for:collidr, freebsd, howto, Linux, network, networking, optimization, osx, performance, solaris, sysadmin, system, tcp, tcpip, tuning, windows | Comments Off | permalink

TigerVNC

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

likely to be a replacement for tightvnc (better performance )

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Behind Pwn2Own: Exclusive Interview With Charlie Miller : Introduction – Review Tom’s Hardware

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Charlie Miller is the one who broke in to up2date fully patched mac in about 1 minute and won (macbook air ) in the latest Pwn2Own content. Good read if you have 20 minutes.

Posted in for:charlesnw, for:collidr, hacking, Linux, mac, News, OS, osx, Security, vista, windows | Comments Off | permalink

How to troubleshoot your MSI Installation

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

msiexec /i product.msi /L*v log.txt

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How to reset the default virtual directories that are required to provide Outlook Web Access, Exchange ActiveSync, and Outlook Mobile Access services in Exchange Server 2003

Monday, March 16th, 2009

well, if getting some weird errors from OWA after you (or some app you have installed ) messed IIS config — you can re-install OWA, re-create all owa directories w/out touching exchange installation itself

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VirtualBox P2V Success | My Foo Is Strong [phisycal win xp -> vmware vm -> virtualbox vm conversion]

Monday, March 9th, 2009

If you need to P2V your windoze install into virtual box vm — you can follow a true-hacker way [http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1404

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CodeSnippets: Windows’ command prompt : How to DEFINITELY change default codepage

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

have u ever tried to get unicode ouput in windows console? You need to change console font to TrueType a and “C:\>chcp 65001″ i.e. change windows code page. Read the link if you want those changes to be permanent

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Providing Active Directory authentication via Kerberos protocol in Apache

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Apache authentication against AD (via Kerberos). Really easy to do, but make sure you put your kerberos real all in UPPER CASE, i.e. MYDOMAIN.COM. If you are using something like MYDOMIAN, then put it into config as MYDOMAIN.LOCAL

Posted in active, activedirectory, ad, apache, authentication, directory, for:collidr, howto, kerberos, krb5, Linux, Microsoft, Security, shortcut:apache, windows | Comments Off | permalink

[technet.microsoft.com] Interop: Authenticate Linux Clients with Active Directory

Friday, November 14th, 2008

tehcnet article on providing authentication against AD using samba/winbind

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