Some Notes on the Machines

Try this:

http://lifehacker.com/speed-up-firefox-by-enabling-its-new-http-cache-1570488335

Something new:

http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/

Reported to work best with Windows 8.

Go to the Exchange console, under Organization Configuration, Hub Transport, properties of the item(s) in the Remote Domains list, Message Format tab. Choose “Never Use” under “Exchange rich-text format”.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/10df55b7-1ea4-4539-96a1-8c2b6540f202/exchange-2010-sends-attachments-as-winmaildat?forum=exchange2010

Interesting tool:

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

This one’s new, made by the excellent folks at Macecraft:

http://decrap.org

In non-full-auto mode, it handles startup items better than anything this writer has seen in years, and also uninstalls software quickly and thoroughly with after-the-fact cleanup.

The simplest commands to take ownership and give full permissions to administrators:

takeown /f directory_name /r /d y
icacls directory_name /grant:r administrators:F /t

The above is recursive, through all files and folders in the tree. If recursion is not desired, remove /r and /t.

This tool:

http://ninite.com/

works very well. It includes Java !!!

LSIget contains an excellent RAID diagnostic system for LSI RAID, which includes 3ware. It produces a .7z archive with many different files inside. Mostly this is intended for LSI support tech usage, but it can help a lot when drive serial numbers don’t show up in the RAID console. To get this information from the archive, locate this file within and open it:

AdpAlllog_AO.txt

From the indefatigable Mike Martinez.

/etc/rc.local no longer automatically exists in many Linuxes. This was a script run at boot before any user logins, after setup. If your Linux distro uses ‘systemd’, a relatively new boot system, this may be your situation; but the functionality is still useful in many special circumstances. If it’s yours, create a file named /etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service containing the below, and a new bash script called /etc/rc.local will run just as desired! Do be sure to set your new /etc/rc.local as executable, or you will regret it :-)

/etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service

[Unit]
Description=/etc/rc.local Compatibility

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/etc/rc.local
TimeoutSec=0
StandardInput=tty
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Here is a link to download the current LSI and 3ware RAID diagnostics:

http://mycusthelp.info/LSI/_cs/AnswerDetail.aspx?inc=8264

Run it with argument “-B” for extreme quietude, “batch mode,” no warnings or input needed at all.