Aug 20, 2012
How To Retrieve and edit MOD Movies off Panasonic Camorders
There are days that there is something you see makes you just scratch your head and go What?? Well one of those came to me when I was given a Panasonic Camcorder in which there was no software just the device and USB cable and asked to retrieve the movies and make a DVD. Upon connecting to the device I found files with the .MOD extension. Since I am running VLC I was able to double-click and was able to... read more
Aug 16, 2012
Create VM’s from the Command Line with VirtualBox 4
In an earlier post on creating screenshots using vboxmanage command in VirtualBox. Building on using vboxmanage command I discovered that I could create and modify a VM at the command line. This is an awesome feature if you are always building and deleting VM’s for testing an other purposes. So in this post I want to cover how to create an modify a VM in VirtualBox from the command line. So... read more
Aug 14, 2012
Gathering Open Systems System information with cfg2html
As systems administrators we are always wanting a way to gather information on your Open Systems, you can do this with various different systems commands and add them in scripts and set as cron jobs, or whatever method you prefer. Now if there is a program that can do that for us and output in txt or html or both, then thats better. Well, such a program does exist call cfg2html... read more
Aug 13, 2012
Uninstall NetBackup 6.5.3 Blue Screen Error Stop 0x0000007B
Recently while in process of cleaning up systems running Symantec NetBackup 6.5.3 ran into the issue of after uninstalling the application and rebooting was greeted by a blue screen with Windows Server 2003-based computer: “STOP: 0x0000007B” This is due to the VSP.sys driver still being referenced in the Windows registry. If you have received this error it is easy enough to fix but you will... read more
Aug 12, 2012
Windows 7 Firewall error code 0x80070424c
Recently came across a Windows 7 PC with McAfee firewall had stopped running and would stop immediately after trying to restart. When attempting to start the firewall server I received an error 0x80070424c. Uninstalled McAfee and tried a re-install with the same results. So after uninstalling again I found Windows firewall service and the Base Filtering Engine were missing as well. What I has found was... read more
