I am in the process of learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012. I’m a hands on learner for the most part and working with a lab environment always speeds up my learning exponentially. I have been looking for the most practical Lab options. I’m looking for flexibility, I want to be able to practice in an isolated environment at home and at work. I am amazed at the amount of Lab options that are available these days....

I have this web server that I manage and from time to time I need to do a system restart. A powershell script might be a quicker way to restart the system. First however I must configure the system for powershell remote management. I went ahead and installed WinRM 2.0 and Powershell 2.0 on the web server. On the Target 2003 Server: 1. Install WinRM 2.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0...

I have been using Growl for Windows for a few months and I think it is a very cool application. I use it mostly at home with Sickbeard and Couchpotato. In Sickbeard, when a show is snatched, that is the show has been submitted to your download manager (Transmission in my case) a notification will be sent to growl. When the the download has been completed, a notification will be sent to growl....

I’d given up on getting DD-WRT flashed on this router. With the help of one of my colleagues at work we were able to get DD-WRT flashed! Omar Davis you rock! What got it to Flash Success came with these work arounds: 1. Disable Windows firewall on the command line: netsh firewall set opmode disable 2. Using the ASUS firmware update tool you’ll have to place the .trx file on the root of the C: drive....

So someone sent me the link to the tax amnesty website and mostly out of curiosity I checked my drivers licence. I have no outstanding tickets on there so why should I worry? I am an upstanding citizen of Jamaica who believes in doing the responsible thing of going to court and pleading guilty with explanation and hoping the judge will fine me less than the amount that is on the ticket....

I grabbed this card from my local computer shop without doing any research. I was very excited and eager to get my home NAS up and running. I was soon disappointed after installing and configuring one hard drive. I was using freeNas then and the write speeds where terribly slow. This was one of the main reasons why I started looking for another NAS solution other than freeNAS. When I migrated to OpenMediaVault this card seemed to have much better Linux support....

Check raid status cat /proc/mdstat or watch cat /proc/mdstat Scan configuration mdadm --detail --scan To Remove a disk from the Array, you’ll have to fail then remove the drive. mdadm --fail /dev/mdX /dev/sdX mdadm --remove /dev/mdX /dev/sdX To add a disk to the array: mdadm --add /dev/mdX /dev/sdX Turn bitmap on mdadm --grow --bitmap=internal /dev/mdX Turn off bitmap mdadm --grow --bitmap=none /dev/mdX Speed up recovery echo 50000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min Resources...

I kept getting this strange error from my NAS. A google search led me to a solution on OMV forums. This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on oracle A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md/oracle:storage1. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md127 : active raid5 sdb[0] sda[3] sdc[1]...

Apt is broken on my omv box with this error. I am still trying to figure this one out. CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Mon Dec 3 04:00:01 EST 2012 CRON-APT SLEEP: 3420, Mon Dec 3 04:57:01 EST 2012 CRON-APT ACTION: 3-download CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: openmediavault-transmissionbt : Depends: transmission-cli (>= 2....

I have a failed (failing) hard drive on my raid5 array. I have documented the steps needed to replace the failed disk with a new disk. Disk is most likely ok but it is showing read errors. Better be safe than sorry! View Array Status cat /proc/mdstat Remove Failed Disk mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --remove /dev/sda Shutdown and replace disk with new one shutdown -h now...