Via Slashdot, Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows we hear from The Register that, Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows. I don’t use Windows much these days but this seems like a sensible decision to me.
I had a problem where I needed to delete a device driver that had been installed so that I could install a replacement. I found How to Remove Old and Useless Drivers in Windows and the process was roughly:
You can then look for the old driver and remove it.
Man, back on Windows for my new studio computer ‘verve‘. Needed to figure out how to edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and that was certainly more difficult than it needed to be.
In the end I used “Method 3” over here to add an “Open in Notepad (Admin)” item to my shell context menu:
Today via Slashdot: Microsoft Warns of New Windows 11 Problems With Apps Using Unusual Registry Keys.
I had an issue today with ‘df’ and ‘umount’ hanging because of a problem with my Windows (SMB/Samba/CIFS) share. To force unmount I used:
umount -a -t cifs -l
The above command forces all CIFS mounts to unmount immediately.
So I found this:
Go into “Global Keyboard Shortcuts”. Under “Run Command Interface” you’ll find ‘Run Command’. Under “KWin” you’ll find a ‘Show Desktop’ entry which is the equivalent of minimize all.
Configuring an SMB mount from my Linux box to my Windows box. This was helpful.
Basically:
# apt-get install cifs-utils
Then create your credentials file:
# cat > /root/amanda.smbpass <<EOF username=jj5 password=SECRET EOF
Then edit /etc/fstab and add:
//amanda.jj5.net/Users /media/amanda cifs defaults,noauto,credentials=/root/amanda.smbpass 0 2
Then create /etc/network/if-up.d/mount-amanda like this:
#!/bin/bash mount /media/amanda
And make sure it’s executable:
# chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/mount-amanda
Mounting can also be done from the command-line:
# mount -t cifs -o username=jj5,password=SECRET //amanda.jj5.net/Users /media/amanda
I had a complete mental blank today and couldn’t remember the ‘net use’ windows command to list mapped drives and their sources. I found Managing shared folders from the command line which reminded me!
I had a problem with the REQUEST_URI server variable not being available in my PHP app when running under IIS on Windows. I followed these instructions to fix the problem: 100% Apache-Compliant REQUEST_URI for IIS and Windows.
I had to download and install ISAPI Rewrite 3 and Request_URI for IIS 1.1 which I installed into PHP by editing my php.ini file with this line:
auto_prepend_file = C:\Program Files\PHP\request_uri.inc
Saw this Portable Executable 101 – a windows executable walkthrough today. Pretty cool visualisation.