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Chassis Intruded! Fatal Error … System halted

If you're randomly and repeatedly getting a BIOS error when booting an aging PC saying Chassis Intruded! Fatal Error … System halted but you never set it up for chassis intrusion dectection, just replace the (usually) CR2032 cmos battery on the mainboard. Big chance it is close to being completely drained

Windows

Using FFmpeg as a custom converter in foobar2000

foobar2000 has quite a few converters available by default but FFmpeg is not one of them. If you want to use FFmpeg as a converter you can add a new output format preset. To get there just right click on any song in foobar2000, Convert and choose the three dots.

Windows

Bitlocker autounlock error 0x80070017

So I recently cloned my windows system to a bigger ssd, reenabled bitlocker then tried to enable autounlock on a second data drive but it gave me the following error ERROR: An error occurred (code 0x80070017): Data error (cyclic redundancy check).Must be something wrong with the drive right? Chkdsk.

Windows

Getting a file hash in powershell

To get the MD5 hash of a file run the following command in powershell: get-filehash -algorithm md5 <filename> Similarly, to get the SHA1 hash run: get-filehash -algorithm sha1 <filename> If you just need the hash value output: (get-filehash -algorithm md5 <filename>).Hash

Linux

Parsing docker (1.8) volume info

Volume inspect information was changed in Docker version 1.8 from a "Volumes" list to a new "Mounts" array. See my previous volume parsing post for parsing on Docker <=1.7 Getting a list of volume paths The Mounts section, if you do docker inspect

Windows

VirtualBox numlock weirdness

After upgrading to VirtualBox 5 on Windows every time I started, focused or unfocused a virtual machine my numlock status would toggle. If you're having the same problem here is how to fix it: > VBoxManage setextradata "<machine-name>" GUI/HidLedsSync "0" This will disable

Linux

Waiting for Docker containers

Ever tried to spin up two Docker containers, one depending on the other, only to find out the port(s) of the first container aren't actually up and running yet causing the second container to fail to start up? Wait wait For a while I stuck some sleep x statements

Linux

Recurring task with systemd

I know, I know, cron is much easier but I was playing around with systemd and timers were one of the things that weren't very clear to me. So this is what I finally ended up with to run several backup tasks every sunday with systemd. Write unit-files To create

Volumes

Cleaning up Docker volumes using Docker

A couple of months ago I wrote a script to delete orphaned Docker volumes. Several people have helped on Github to improve the script since. I also added a Docker file so you can cleanup Docker volumes using... Docker. I'm not entirely convinced it's easier than downloading the script and

Linux

Luks unlock with SSH or USB

Unlocking a full disk encrypted Ubuntu/Debian system with SSH or USB flash drive I've started encryping my home server long before it was a next next next install option in Ubuntu and Debian. At some point I added USB unlocking with an old hacked up version of the script

Linux

XBMC/Kodi and SMB access denied

Oh no, access denied So I was trying Kodi on a new Android device I got (WeTek Play) and soon ran into a problem where I couldn't access my password protected SMB shares on my linux server where my media is stored. Kodi would just ask for the username and

YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator

Reminder to myself that YUMI is a great little tool to boot multiple iso's from a single bootable usb-stick.

Linux

Cleaning up after Docker

So I've been playing around with Docker containers for a while now and really like it. In fact this blog is running in a Docker container right now. But Docker sure leaves a mess behind on disk. One of the things it tends to leave behind is volumes, that is

How-to

Getting nano back after ctrl-z

When editing a file in nano I tend to hit ctrl-z to attempt to undo an edit but when you press ctrl-z in nano it dumps you back in the shell... very confusing... and very annoying because I do this all the time and usually just started over using a

Linux

Parsing docker volume info

Getting a list of volume paths To list all volumes and associated paths for a docker (1.5.0) container, using go templating: docker inspect --format='{{range $vol, $path := .Volumes}}{{$vol}} - {{$path}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}' <container name or id> Using it in a bash

Windows

Clink, making windows commandline more like bash

Clink is an extension for the Windows commandline which brings features from bash shell to Windows. If you use both Linux and Windows you know the bash shell has all kinds of useful tricks that standard Windows commandline does not. Like history between sessions, reverse find of commands, autocompletion etc.

How-to

Enter the docker

Neat little tool to get a shell into a docker container so you don't have to install additional services like sshd in your containers and keep your containers single service only. Run this once: sudo docker run -v /usr/local/bin:/target jpetazzo/nsenter After that you can get a

How-to

How-to: Right-click on any folder to start a simple HTTP server

Here's how to setup your Windows machine to quickly get a simple http server running in any directory from the contextmenu. Installation Install node.js from http://nodejs.org/ Install the http-server app npm install http-server -g Create a file named http-server-here.reg and add the following contents (or download