System Administration

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…
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…
Helpful Tools, System Administration

Make a Program Run as a Windows Service on Boot

Components that run automatically with Windows on boot up often establish themselves as a system service. Other options are to add programs into the registry in places like HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, or into the “All Users” Startup group folder (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, C:\Users\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup). There are pros and cons to each method,…
System Administration

TLER and MD Arrays

TLER is the Western Digital “feature” for making a hard drive give up trying to read/write before it normally would. This can be useful in a RAID environment in that a RAID controller is able to recover from a read/write error faster than an individual disk would since the RAID controller can consult the redundant…