Show 'HTTP://' prefix in Firefox 7

..freshly upgraded to Firefox 7, but apparently the 'HTTP://' is gone in the addressbar. If you're looking under 'Options' to get it activated again, you're wrong. So quickly the steps to re-enable it again:

  • open firefox
  • browse to 'about:config'
  • search for 'browser.urlbar.trimURLs'
  • change the value ...
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Windows 2008 Server password reset

..Stupid password restrictions on Windows machines.. ;-) Just booted up a test Windows ADS Server in a VM where I couldn't remember the password. The 12345 didn't work because I couldn't set it to that initially... :-p
Anyway, a quick research revealed that there's a nice 'hook ...

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Syslog Monitoring

I just was recently looking for a method to monitor a syslog server. But as per design, syslog works using UDP, so there's no real indication that a simple syslog message has made it through successfully. As I wanted to have this service monitored by Nagios, I was looking ...

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VMware ESXi 4.0 - 4.1 Update

I've just had a VMware ESXi 4.0 in front of me, which needed an upgrade. Not a big deal if you're able to find the right KB articles on their website...
OK, so here are the steps to upgrade a VMware ESXi 4.0 to a VMware ...

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Syntax-highlighting in your Bash

I've just been working with some xml's recently and was getting annoyed that I don't have any syntaxhighlighting on the bash stdout.. Ok, I can save it and let then vim open it, so I've got my syntax highlighting. Not what I want ;-) After a quick ...

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slow /dev/urandom

Something that always bugged me, was the speed of the /dev/urandom device, which provides random data. I needed it to benchmark some network devices and urandom just wasn't fast enough for that :-D
Anyway, openssl provides also a way to generate some random data, which is much faster ...

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