A couple weeks ago, I decided to update my primary laptop’s kernel from 4.0 to 4.5. Everything went smoothly with the exception of my wireless networking. This particular laptop uses the a wifi chipset that is controlled by the Intel Wireless DVM Firmware: #lspci | grep ‘Network controller’ 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N …
Tag: code
Feb 02 2016
Changing Windows account passwords and enabling the local Windows admin account
Recently, I needed to get into a client’s computer (running Windows 8) in order to fix a few problems. Having forgotten to ask for a most obvious piece of needed information (the account password), I just decided to get around it. The account that he was using on a daily basis was tied to a …
Oct 09 2015
Amavisd fails to start due to BerkeleyDB, libdb, and db.h
Yet again, I had troubles with restarting amavisd after some package updates. You can see about the other problems that I’ve had with the application in these two previous blog posts: missing SpamAssassin rules causing amavis to fail and start-up failures due to a missing Perl IPv6 module. This time, the problem was related to …
Thought for the Moment
