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How to examine binary registry dumps in Linux

Say you have a binary registry export or dump from Windows and need to have a look at its contents. What do you do? The solution I came up with is:

WINEPREFIX=/tmp/dump regedit *.reg

Which gives you nice plain-text ini-style registries to examine in /tmp/dump. That obviously needs Wine installed.

Using postfix and ActiveDirectory

Quick reference for using postfix as a “shield” server to Exchange to check valid mailboxes against ActiveDirectory (SBS edition):

create a LDAP configuration file:

server_host = ad-server.your.domain
search_base = ou=MyBusiness,dc=your,dc=domain
query_filter = (&(objectClass=*) (proxyAddresses=smtp:%s))
result_attribute = sAMAccountName
bind=yes
bind_dn = dn of user account
bind_pw = pw of user

Nix gelernt...

Was hat die BPS aus der Indizierung der Ärzte gelernt? Richtig. Nichts. Und wieso darf Frau von der Leyen da eigentlich selbst ran?

Rygel 0.4.1 is out

Due to some last-minute bugs rygel 0.4.1 has been released.

It is also available in debian unstable now :)

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Rygel 0.4 release

Rygel 0.4 (Fascinating!) has been released yesterday, so grab it while it’s hot.

Cellphone sync and linux

I once had a cellphone that played very nicely with Linux, the good old Siemens S55. Unfortunately, my SE P1i doesn’t. I tried various combinations of Multisync or OpenSync, nothing helped. Today I bit the bullet and installed funambol with syncevolution. What shall I say, apart from having to run a ~250Meg Java Application server just for me, it simply works. Period.

And thanks to Blueman, this works with Bluetooth now, too (Via PAN of course, not OBEX).

Is that all, bob?

No, it isn’t. You don’t only get the mingw version of gupnp, there will be a shiny version compatible with MSVC! Lo and behold, the unavoidable screenshotgssp-with-msvc

Location-dependant IGMP

Could someone please enlighten me?

I spent a third of my work today wondering why

  • a modified QUdpSocket only leads to IGMPv1 membership reports
  • a self-written plain old socket multicast client only leads to IGMPv2 joins, but very seldom leaves

Now being at home, I tried both programs and both reliably send IGMPv3 joins and leaves…

Non-functional ALT key and VMWare

If you’re using VMWare on Linux host, you sometimes might experience that after switching from VM to Host your ALT key (or some other “special” key) stopps working. Found the workaround to correct this: setxkbmap

(Workaround found in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/195982)