veb mantissa ddr

Thank you XLA

[monoku]

Scorched earth.

ssh into your VirtualBox virtual machine from a Windows host

Note to self:

VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --natpf1 "host-to-guest-ssh,tcp,,2222,,22"

Now you can ssh into 127.0.0.1 port 2222 and log into the virtual machine.

[details]

The tale of a lost domain password

The setup:

– A Windows 2008 R2 server running Exchange 2010

The problem:

– The Domain Administrator’s Password was changed and then forgotten.

So now we are completely locked out of the system. To make things worse, the Offline Windows Password and Registry Editor could not identify the SCSI controller.

The solution:

I bought Active@ Boot Disk and reset the Local Administrator Password (that was gone to oblivion too). Next I booted into “Directory Restore Mode” and followed Petri’s instructions.

Problem solved.

IPv6 nostalgia

It is World IPv6 Day today and I’m getting nostalgic. This is how the 6BONE looked in its very last day:

The code that was constructing this diagram was running from July 16, 1998 until June 10, 2006. I had just finished reading “Practical Reusable Unix Software” (which is now available for download) and was trying to do something cool using graphviz. Yep, almost the same time as the Internet Mapping Project began.

I believe the World IPv6 Day is as close a date as we can get to a new Internet Flag Day. This time the switch will not happen in a day but gradually and very (very) slowly. Hopefully in 30 years from today, no IPv4 islands will exist.

Five sentences

I was reminded of six word stories when reading this:

five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It’s that simple.

I think I’m around to five or six. But it is always nice to see something that you instinctively practice written down. I found out about it thanks to this post by Tom Limoncelli.

gnuplot and YYYYMMDD

Note to self:

set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y%m%d"
plot "filename" using 1:2 with lines

“The Sky is the bottom”

It is not the fact that I had not been in a “doghouse”^† for 7+ years scary. It is the fact that I knew every hit.

[†] – A certain kind of Greek music scene

[sourcecode lang="text"]

Reread Posting Source Code yesterday and found out about text being an acceptable source code language.

I revised all my sendmail posts.

Happy Birthday Ethernet!!!

According to Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet was invented May 22, 1973.

38 years and counting…