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Hacks, Helpful Tools, Rants

Symantec Endpoint Recovery Tool (SERT) Pin Number (All of Them)

The Symantec Endpoint Recovery Tool (SERT) is a great concept, it puts the power of Symantec’s Endpoint Protection antivirus scanning onto a bootable CD. If you are familiar with rootkits, you can probably see where this is useful. To scan a file for viruses an antivirus scanner makes a request to the operating system for…
Trash to Treasure

Replace Battery in Plantronics CS70 Headset

I’m not sure what electronics manufacturers are thinking by making devices with batteries soldered into circuit. I guess they are thinking “this is a rechargeable battery”, but eventually those batteries quit recharging. This is a problem that users of older generation iPods and iPhones are probably becoming very aware of. Anyhow, since I like keeping…
General Nonsense, System Administration

Reset Buffalo TeraStation PRO Model TS-RHTGL/R5 Password

Have a Buffalo TeraStation PRO Model TS-RHTGL/R5 and lost your password? Me too, here’s how I reset the web interface login without losing all my data. The steps will probably be similar on other TeraStation models, but I think the default user credentials might be different (username ‘Administrator’ vs. ‘admin’, etc). The TeraStation this was…
Hacks

Installing Tomato USB on Asus Routers (RT-N16 etc) in Windows

Why Tomato USB? For USB support. What is Tomato USB? It’s a USB enabled version of Tomato. It’s similar to DD-WRT. a third-party firmware for your router to give you advanced features not normally found in a consumer router (VPN, captive portal, etc). Why from Windows? There is already a good write-up on doing it…
System Administration

Install Asterisk 1.8 from source on Ubuntu 11.10

After a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 I needed to install asterisk again, so I figured I’d make some notes for the next time I have to do it. I’m using Asterisk 1.8 rather than the latest bleeding edge because 1.8 has long term support until 2015-10-21 where as the 10.x branch is end of…
Bash, Helpful Tools, System Administration

Access an APC AP5456 IP Gateway for Analog KVM in Linux

I recently wrote about running an ActiveX component without Internet Explorer. I used that technique to come up with a shell script front-end for downloading, unpacking and running an executable in Wine for accessing an APC IP KVM (model AP5456). Here is the results of that effort. At a minimum the script requires Wine and…