This is just simple stuff I use everyday; and some stuff that happens only once, but nice to keep track of, in case.
2016-05-05: (viva Cinco de Mayo!!!)
Our company has recently started to install windows 10 on all new laptops and also upgrades for those who want to move to windows 10. Very few windows 8.x hosts in our office. However, we do use many win8.1 VMs. One of my permanent VMs is 8.1 x64 and I use this for all of my AD/admin tasks.
After I had finished imaging 2 new laptops with our corp win 10 image, I also imagined my business laptop to windows 10; two things I had to figure out right away; the edge browser doesn't work with many of our internal web sites so I needed to install/activate internet explorer 11 on windows 10:
How to locate and open Internet Explorer in Windows 10
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_internet-insider_ie/how-to-locate-and-open-internet-explorer-in/4b067f8b-a0dc-4fba-9e63-00fb14ea82e8
2013-11-04:
user says IE10 crashes when starting up; discovered "mysearchresults" had hijacked the browser; went into regedit and changed "start page" in key from the mysearchresults to google.com; this allowed IE10 to startup without crashing. Then uninstall from programs and features the "DefaultTab" app; then full virus/malware scan; also malwarebytes full scan to remove the last vestiges of this problem app. Probably installed with some yahoo bar thingee, but not sure.
2013-10-29:
user request to fix problems with vm player and RHEL ver 5.x VM; point user to ISO file, download to laptop, and install new VM from this ISO file;
2013-10-07:
user request to configure linux evolution email client to connect to corporate exchange 2010 server;
2013-10-02:
Friday, April 29, 2016
More stuff I deal with each day (This is good job security!)
Friday 25 Feb 2016
1-week-long AE training is over; set up network connections for over 70 users in the multi-purpose room. Now I am getting it all straightened out and put away, so much easier to deploy next time.
2-a couple of days ago, I was using my win7 enterprise laptop (my normal work laptop) to prepare our corporate image flashdrive to reimage a problem laptop (dell precision m3800); we use a process which involves 'diskpart' utility and I selected and cleaned the wrong disk (seagate 4TB external hd I use for all my backups); now I am using a utility (active@ partition recovery) to see if it will repair the wiped out partition record; so far it is showing the folder/files that were there and hopefully, after finishing the quick scan (quick=several hours) it will just all get put back together and I won't have to copy to another hd to recover. Paid $35 to download and use; cheap if it works.
Actually, used another utility active@undelete to accomplish recovering all of the backups I had made in the past 3-4 months.
1-week-long AE training is over; set up network connections for over 70 users in the multi-purpose room. Now I am getting it all straightened out and put away, so much easier to deploy next time.
2-a couple of days ago, I was using my win7 enterprise laptop (my normal work laptop) to prepare our corporate image flashdrive to reimage a problem laptop (dell precision m3800); we use a process which involves 'diskpart' utility and I selected and cleaned the wrong disk (seagate 4TB external hd I use for all my backups); now I am using a utility (active@ partition recovery) to see if it will repair the wiped out partition record; so far it is showing the folder/files that were there and hopefully, after finishing the quick scan (quick=several hours) it will just all get put back together and I won't have to copy to another hd to recover. Paid $35 to download and use; cheap if it works.
Actually, used another utility active@undelete to accomplish recovering all of the backups I had made in the past 3-4 months.
My Install of mintstick app on Ubuntu 16.04 x64
2019-11-05; update: I now use Rufus utility to create all my bootable usb flash drives from ISO image file because it seems to work in every case; not so with either mint stick on linux mint or "disks" on ubuntu.
How to install the LinuxMint 17.x version of application/accessories/USB Image Writer & USB Stick Formatter on Ubuntu 16.04 x64.
(NOTE: this is probably a more convoluted route to do this install than others may accomplish!)
1) First had to figure out what is the specific package installed on LM so I can find the downloadable .deb package for these 2 utilities.
2) google search for "USB Stick Formatter" & "USB Image Writer"; found this URL which let me know the name is "mintstick".
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-mintstick-1-2-1-on-ubuntu-14-04-pinguy-os-14-04-deepin-2014-lxle-14-04-and-other-ubuntu-14-04-derivatives/
3) Another way I found out the underlying name of these 2 utilities (actually just one app with 2 functions) was to look in the linux mint 17.3 /usr/share/applications and find the 2 USB Image/Stick Formatter icons there, right-click them and select properties to see the actual command line used to run them, ie "mintstick".
4) After searching around, I found this URL for mintstick d/l:
http://mirror.stjschools.org/public/linuxmint-packages/list.php?release=Sarah
or
http://mirror.stjschools.org/public/linuxmint-packages/pool/main/m/mintstick/
search for "mintstick" on that page; shows mintstick ver 1.2.8; downloaded this package: mintstick_1.2.8_all.deb 2016-04-22 04:39 21
5) And after more searching, found this "official" dl location (link on this spanish webpage: http://www.muylinux.com/2015/07/21/live-usb-mintstick)
http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintstick/
Now, how to install on Ubuntu 16.04?
6) how to install a .deb file from terminal:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/40779/how-do-i-install-a-deb-file-via-the-command-line
sudo dpkg -i DEB_PACKAGE
if there are errors due to dependencies, run this command to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -f
(See below for the output from these 2 commands).
7) First attempt to run the mintstick program gave this error:
$ mintstick
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/mintstick/mintstick.py", line 10, in <module>
from gi.repository import GObject, Gio, Polkit, Gtk, GLib, UDisks
ImportError: No module named gi.repository
8) google search on this error and looked at this URL: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=204849
suggested to install the python-gobject module; used synaptic packmgr, seached on "python-gobject" and selected the uninstalled "python-gobject" and installed it. Now it all works.
Looking in /usr/share/applications shows the 2 icons for "USB Image Writer" & "USB Stick Formater"; I right-clicked the icon for each, permissions tab, and checked the "Allow executing file as program" check box.
Using the DASH, search for "usb" to bring up these apps and run from there.
=-=-=-=-= EXAMPLE
$ sudo dpkg -i mintstick_1.2.8_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package mintstick.
(Reading database ... 175297 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mintstick_1.2.8_all.deb ...
Unpacking mintstick (1.2.8) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mintstick:
mintstick depends on gir1.2-polkit-1.0; however:
Package gir1.2-polkit-1.0 is not installed.
mintstick depends on python-glade2; however:
Package python-glade2 is not installed.
mintstick depends on python-parted; however:
Package python-parted is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package mintstick (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mintstick
$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
gir1.2-polkit-1.0 libglade2-0 python-cairo python-glade2 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2
python-parted
Suggested packages:
python-gtk2-doc python-gobject-2-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gir1.2-polkit-1.0 libglade2-0 python-cairo python-glade2 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2
python-parted
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Unpacking gir1.2-polkit-1.0 (0.105-14.1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libglade2-0:amd64.
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Unpacking libglade2-0:amd64 (1:2.6.4-2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python-cairo.
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Unpacking python-gtk2 (2.24.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python-glade2.
Preparing to unpack .../python-glade2_2.24.0-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking python-glade2 (2.24.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously un
selected package python-parted.
Preparing to unpack .../python-parted_3.10.7-2build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking python-parted (3.10.7-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up gir1.2-polkit-1.0 (0.105-14.1) ...
Setting up libglade2-0:amd64 (1:2.6.4-2) ...
Setting up python-cairo (1.8.8-2) ...
Setting up python-gobject-2 (2.28.6-12ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-gtk2 (2.24.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-glade2 (2.24.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-parted (3.10.7-2build1) ...
Setting up mintstick (1.2.8) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
=-=-=-=-= EX:
How to install the LinuxMint 17.x version of application/accessories/USB Image Writer & USB Stick Formatter on Ubuntu 16.04 x64.
(NOTE: this is probably a more convoluted route to do this install than others may accomplish!)
1) First had to figure out what is the specific package installed on LM so I can find the downloadable .deb package for these 2 utilities.
2) google search for "USB Stick Formatter" & "USB Image Writer"; found this URL which let me know the name is "mintstick".
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-mintstick-1-2-1-on-ubuntu-14-04-pinguy-os-14-04-deepin-2014-lxle-14-04-and-other-ubuntu-14-04-derivatives/
3) Another way I found out the underlying name of these 2 utilities (actually just one app with 2 functions) was to look in the linux mint 17.3 /usr/share/applications and find the 2 USB Image/Stick Formatter icons there, right-click them and select properties to see the actual command line used to run them, ie "mintstick".
4) After searching around, I found this URL for mintstick d/l:
http://mirror.stjschools.org/public/linuxmint-packages/list.php?release=Sarah
or
http://mirror.stjschools.org/public/linuxmint-packages/pool/main/m/mintstick/
search for "mintstick" on that page; shows mintstick ver 1.2.8; downloaded this package: mintstick_1.2.8_all.deb 2016-04-22 04:39 21
5) And after more searching, found this "official" dl location (link on this spanish webpage: http://www.muylinux.com/2015/07/21/live-usb-mintstick)
http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintstick/
Now, how to install on Ubuntu 16.04?
6) how to install a .deb file from terminal:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/40779/how-do-i-install-a-deb-file-via-the-command-line
sudo dpkg -i DEB_PACKAGE
if there are errors due to dependencies, run this command to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -f
(See below for the output from these 2 commands).
7) First attempt to run the mintstick program gave this error:
$ mintstick
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/mintstick/mintstick.py", line 10, in <module>
from gi.repository import GObject, Gio, Polkit, Gtk, GLib, UDisks
ImportError: No module named gi.repository
8) google search on this error and looked at this URL: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=204849
suggested to install the python-gobject module; used synaptic packmgr, seached on "python-gobject" and selected the uninstalled "python-gobject" and installed it. Now it all works.
Looking in /usr/share/applications shows the 2 icons for "USB Image Writer" & "USB Stick Formater"; I right-clicked the icon for each, permissions tab, and checked the "Allow executing file as program" check box.
Using the DASH, search for "usb" to bring up these apps and run from there.
=-=-=-=-= EXAMPLE
$ sudo dpkg -i mintstick_1.2.8_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package mintstick.
(Reading database ... 175297 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mintstick_1.2.8_all.deb ...
Unpacking mintstick (1.2.8) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mintstick:
mintstick depends on gir1.2-polkit-1.0; however:
Package gir1.2-polkit-1.0 is not installed.
mintstick depends on python-glade2; however:
Package python-glade2 is not installed.
mintstick depends on python-parted; however:
Package python-parted is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package mintstick (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mintstick
$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
gir1.2-polkit-1.0 libglade2-0 python-cairo python-glade2 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2
python-parted
Suggested packages:
python-gtk2-doc python-gobject-2-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gir1.2-polkit-1.0 libglade2-0 python-cairo python-glade2 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2
python-parted
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Selecting previously unselected package python-gtk2.
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Unpacking python-gtk2 (2.24.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python-glade2.
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Preparing to unpack .../python-parted_3.10.7-2build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking python-parted (3.10.7-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up gir1.2-polkit-1.0 (0.105-14.1) ...
Setting up libglade2-0:amd64 (1:2.6.4-2) ...
Setting up python-cairo (1.8.8-2) ...
Setting up python-gobject-2 (2.28.6-12ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-gtk2 (2.24.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-glade2 (2.24.0-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python-parted (3.10.7-2build1) ...
Setting up mintstick (1.2.8) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
=-=-=-=-= EX:
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