Five years since the last post, woot!
Maintaining Sixaxis Settings in Steam Big Picture Mode on Linux
Using Steam Big Picture Mode on Ubuntu 15.10, with a PS3 Sixaxis controller over Bluetooth, was proving difficult. Every time I would restart BPM, it would lose all of my controller mappings. The normal solution of using xboxdrv didn’t work, since this was via Bluetooth and not wired. I configured the controller as normal via […]
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2008 BPA for AD Group Policy “Access to this computer” Error
When running the AD Best Practices on Server 2008, you may receive the following error: The AD DS BPA should be able to collect data about Group Policy Results setting “Access this computer from the network” from the domain controller <DCNAME> Check the XML log file for a more detailed error message. It can be […]
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ADMT Child Leaf Objects Error
When using the Active Directory Migration Toolkit, you may receive an error that a user cannot be moved while they have child leaf objects. This is usually due to the user tying a device to their Exchange account via ActiveSync. To solve this, make sure you have the Support Tools for Windows Server installed. Open […]
Replacing Valve Cover Gaskets
I’ve had a fairly bad oil leak since I got the Subaru running. Turns out that the valve cover gaskets are a fairly common item to go out on this model, so I decided to replace them. As long as I had everything apart (the drivers side in particular isn’t easy to get to), I […]
Legacy Rustoleum Paint Job
(most of this is copied/pasted from my post in the LegacyGT Forums back in September last year) This past week, I did the $50 Rustoleum Paint Job. I’m not going to cover everything in detail, since a lot of the guides already do an excellent job. I went from this To this I mostly followed […]
’91 Subaru Legacy
(this is actually from November 2010, figured I’d post it and then follow up with a couple ‘since then’ posts) Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a 1991 Subaru Legacy I got from my parents. While it’s hardly a sports car, it would be a significant improvement over my ’99 Durango in […]
Dead Monitor
What better way to revive a near-dead blog named SmashTech than by smashing a dead LCD with a 3 lb drilling hammer? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWCs6BjeOpU]
Error 0x80005000 using LDAP in VBScript
While rolling out a new logon script, I started getting reports of an error message like this one showing up. Error 0x80005000 with a source of (null) isn’t particularly helpful. The particular section of code referenced in the error dealt with pulling a user’s group membership from LDAP, and mapping drives accordingly. After stepping through […]
RAID is not Backup – My Experience
It’s a common theme you read on many sysadmin forums – ‘RAID is not backup!’ I have always agreed with that statement, but it didn’t hit home until recently. A little over a month ago, I was on site in Kentucky to switch some T1 lines around. When I got there, I noticed one of […]