1. Install the following packages using the cygwin setup tool:
   • gcc4
   • make
   • openssl (needed for runtime, not for building)
   • openssl-devel
   • zlib-devel
2. Download and extract the tarsnap code.
3. Run ./configure (this seems to be much slower on cygwin than on other more UNIXy platforms)
4. Run make all install clean

Tarsnap should now be installed and you can use it in the normal fashion – create a host key with tarsnap-keygen and then get backing up!

Edit 2009-12-16: checkers from #tarsnap on EFnet has written a post with scripts for Linux and Cygwin tarsnapping at http://www.bluebottle.net.au/blog/2009/tarsnap-backups-on-windows-and-linux

You may also wish at add --prefix=/ to the configure command line, as /usr/local isn’t in the default path.

You’ll need PsList from SysInternals in your path somewhere.

Change the three SET lines to point to jkdefrag, give the parameters you want to use, and the name of the program to avoid. (Get the name of the program from PsList.)

The “>2 NUL” sends stderr to NUL to avoid printing the PsList banner. It works on Vista, not sure about XP/2003. If it doesn’t just remove it and live with the PsList banner showing up.

Making this check for more than one process is an exercise for the reader. Also, you could use this with PsExec to check for the process on a remote host and then launch JKDefrag over there.

@echo off

REM Only run jkdefrag if another process is not running

REM Path to jkdefrag
SET JKDEFRAG=c:\jkdefrag\jkdefrag.exe

REM Options for jkdefrag
SET JKDEFRAGOPTS=-a 3

REM Process we don't want running
SET AVOID=explorer

 
REM Here we go!
 
pslist %AVOID% > NUL 2> NUL
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto skip

REM If we made it here, pslist didn't find the process
echo Couldn't find %AVOID% running, starting jkdefrag...
%JKDEFRAG% %JKDEFRAGOPTS%
goto end
 
:skip
echo %AVOID% is running, not running jkdefrag
 
:end

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState]
 
"FullPathAddress"=dword:00000001
"Use Search Asst"="no"

Log off and back on again and the dog has been slaughtered.

Stupid yapping thing. :fuckoff:

(For the uninitiated, Exchange Recipient Policies tell Active Directory how to automatically generate email addresses for your users.)

If you want to tell a recipient policy in Exchange 2003 (and presumably 2007) how to generate the localpart other then just username, use these expanos:

%s : Surname (last name)

%g : Given name (first name)

%i : Middle initial

%d : Display name

%m : Exchange 2003 alias

%rxy : Replace all subsequent characters x with character y in username. If x = y, the character will be deleted.

There are other things you can do like chopping the string to a certain number of characters, see the full article for details.

No longer will I have to manually add first.last@domain.com to every user I create :D

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=822447

http://www.sysinternals.com now redirects to a Microsoft :xbox: TechNet site. While the new site carries all of the stuff sysinternals.com had, and also has some new stuff (hooray!) it’s sad to see it finally gone :(

Luckily, nothing ever really dies on the Internet!

In C:\windows\debug\netsetup.log it says:

NetUseAdd to \\DC_FQDN\IPC$ returned 5
NetpJoinDomain: status of connecting to dc '\\DC_FQDN': 0x5
NetpDoDomainJoin: status: 0x5

The solution was to fire up regedit and change the value of HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters\enablesecuritysignature to 1, and restart.

Edit: Do this after leaving the original domain for a workgroup, because doing that resets it to 0.

http://b.oooom.net/1xo

In Firefox, I can drag the favicon from the address bar or a link from a page into a blank area of the tab bar, and I’ll get a new tab with my link it.

In IE, that opens in the link in the currently active tab.

OK, so how about if I drop the link over the “new tab” button? No, that opens the link in the active tab too.

Alright then, I’ll create a tab with the new tab button myself, and then I’ll drop the link into the blank tab.

Wait, no, that doesn’t do it either. The only way to open a link in a new tab is to Ctrl-click it. All of the other actions for opening a new tab make sense to me from a UI point of view, but just don’t work.

C:\>dsquery user -inactive 4 dsquery failed: The parameter is incorrect. Windows could not run this query because you are connected to a domain that does not support this query. type dsquery /? for help.

After raising the functional level from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003 it works without complaining, but doesn’t return any data – I guess it’s not even stored until you fix the functional level.