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Parsing the Windows sfc log from unix

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Alexandre Gauthier

Just a quick line to mention that the Windows System File Checker tool produces logs that are nearly unreadable, and a pain to parse. A friend of mine had some system files that did not check out, and could not … Continue reading →

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Gentoo: Rebuilding package.keywords

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

We all mess up in the shell once in a while. Sometimes, while trying to cut corners, we’ll use “>” instead of “>>”, and that will overwrite an important file instead of appending a new line to it. I was … Continue reading →

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Mounting LVM Volumes inside a VMWare Disk Image

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

So, the situation is this. I’m sitting remotely at a client site, and suddendly, due to some sleep-deprived slip-up, ended up erasing part of the configuration for their local server. Being the kind of guy to plan things through before … Continue reading →

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Courier imap and vpopmail on Debian

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been fairly busy — I’m migrating all of my servers to a single, brand new Dell Poweredge 2900 server. I have a couple of great tutorials regarding Xen coming up soon, … Continue reading →

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I’m a slob.

Posted on May 13, 2005 by Alexandre Gauthier

\D[ae]“mon\ (MSN) I was too lazy to kill -9′ the 8 SQUID pids. Didn’t feel like typing the numbers in… 10:20 So I did this: for i in `ps waux | grep [s]quid | awk ‘{ print $2 }’` ;\ … Continue reading →

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