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How long should a dcpromo demotion take?
I have a SBS2003 Domain Controller on one site. Across a 512kbps link I have another Windows 2003 DC. About 40 User Accounts About 40 Domain Groups I started the demotion at 5:10AM and it's 5:26AM and it's finished so... 16minutes.
Installing a Windows computer with the same name on your network
Let's say you are attempting to re-life a domain controller onto new hardware. To do this you need to install the base machine with the same name as the old DC and bring the new machine to the exact same patch level as the original then restore from backup over that...
GtkPod Fails to Convert ogg to MP3
Just tried to install some oggs onto my wife's iPod Shuffle 1G and using the add Files button from within GTKPod I get an error similar to: /usr/share/gtkpod-aac/scripts/convert-2mp3.sh exit status 5 I had to install the following to make it work. sudo apt-get install...
Gallery Upload to Dreamhost
So I just finished transferring my Gallery 2.3 installation from my old server to Dreamhost. gFTP has been replaced by FileZilla In the past on Linux I have used GFTP to do FTP uploads but have found it buggy. This time I used FileZilla and I must say it performed...
Ubuntu equivalent to rpm -qf /path/and/file
In RPM based distros you can issue the command rpm -qf /usr/bin/dig and it will return the installation package name I don't know if this is the 'proper' way to do it but it works: dpkg-query -S dig | grep /usr/bin/dig dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig
Finding out when your DNS delegation has propogated
If you have delegated your DNS to another hosting provider you may want to send yourself an email when your DNS domain delegation has propogated (so you can notify people after the change and not have everyone saying "I can't get to your site"). Create a script as...