virtualbox slic support

use vbslic.exe to mod vboxdd.dll and add slic record to it.

VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiSystemVendor" "System Vendor"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/acpi/0/Config/CustomTable" "/path/to/table.bin"

netbackup user authority

1:do netbackup jobs without root account
--> modify /usr/openv/java/auth.conf and add accounts you want to grand permisson to him/her

device monitor -> In the right window reset the problem drive and bring it up again

Quantum Scalar i40 & Netapp FAS2020

both ends cannot recognize each other. Need to change the Fibre topology to Loop from the web client interface of the tape library to fix it.

Please note, definition file of installed tape library need to reside /etc/tape_config/ folder of netapp vol0.
Netapp: sysconfig -t

Apache NIS authentication

perl NET::NIS,Apache-AuthenNIS,Apache-AuthzNIS are required
AuthType Basic
AuthName "LICCHECK"
PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenNIS
PerlAuthzHandler Apache::AuthzNIS # for group authentication only
PerlSetVar AllowAlternateAuth no
require group v70a # require valid-user

hex editor for Linux

vi
:%!xxd

ipmitool for windows platform

ipmitool.exe can be extracted from the BMC package from Dell website.

windows xp timezone change through command line

RunDLL32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL timedate.cpl,,/Z Mountain Standard Time

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones