Gregory Strike

The “Adobe Flash Player Update Service” Starts Up Every Hour

Gregory Strike — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:57:08 +0000

Even though I have the all updates including background updates disabled via the mms.cfg file, the Adobe Flash Player Update Service starts up every hour. It immediately stops, however, this behavior was unexpected. I am currently running v11.2.202.235. Below is my mms.cfg file. I push this out via. Group Policy to ensure all updates are [...]

RSOP & GPResult Both Return “ERROR: Access Denied”

Gregory Strike — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:14:09 +0000

I was trying to run Resultant Set of Policy and would get the following error. This was a Citrix server running on Windows 2003 SP2 (32-bit). ERROR: Access Denied. I was running it as a user to do some troubleshooting, however, I got the same error running it as a Domain Admin… and that, my [...]

How to Build GIMP 2.8 from Source in Ubuntu 12.04

Gregory Strike — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:20:33 +0000

After many years GIMP 2.8 has finally been officially released! Lots of changes were put into this release and on May 3rd, 2012 we’ve got our official release! Congratulations to everyone involved! Below I’ve published a method for building/compiling GIMP from source in Ubuntu 12.04. I’ve run through this in a 64-bit virtual machine and [...]

How to Expand/Extend an iSCSI Volume without Rebooting

Gregory Strike — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:53:13 +0000

I was trying to extend an iSCSI volume on one of my SQL servers, but I didn’t want to take any downtime on the databases. The iSCSI volumes I wanted to extend held the databases. This is a quick post, as there’s not much to it and I wanted to make sure I got this [...]

XenServer Host Failed – What Now?

Gregory Strike — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:09:14 +0000

Not too long ago, I had one of my XenServer hosts crash due to a hardware failure. It was not my Pool Master. When a XenServer host crashes the virtual machines running on the failed server can’t be controlled, so we’re unable to tell them to start up on another host. The XenServer pool still [...]

Homemade McDonald’s Big Mac Copycat Recipe

Gregory Strike — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:33:02 +0000

For a couple months now I’ve been wanting to tackle recreating the famous McDonald’s Big Mac at home… or as my wife would say, “I’ve had a bee in my bonnet.” The goal here was to come as close as possible to the real thing and then of course enjoy the delicious sandwich with the [...]

How to Get File Details In Command Prompt / Batch Script

Gregory Strike — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:49:58 +0000

I was working on a batch file last week and I needed to have access to an executable file’s details (specifically, the version). In some situations when a program is installed through Windows Installer you can access a program’s version from the registry, however, in my situation the file simply exists and was not installed. [...]

Script to Uninstall/Remove VNC Passively

Gregory Strike — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:49:21 +0000

The following script was written to silently remove VNC Servers and VNC Viewers from a computer. I needed a way to get a computer to a clean slate before deploying an upgraded VNC Server. The script doesn’t really check if VNC is installed, it simply deletes a bunch of default VNC folders, files, registry keys, [...]

VM of Android v4.0.1 ICS for VirtualBox – Download

Gregory Strike — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:59:57 +0000

I just wanted to post a couple screenshots of my first successful compile of Android v4.0.1 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) running in VirtualBox. Enjoy! It took me a while to get it all working, but after some diligence I was given a working copy of Ice Cream Sandwich running in VirtualBox on my computer. Now [...]

Can’t Access HP Compaq 6200 Pro BIOS

Gregory Strike — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:52:50 +0000

I spent quite a bit of time trying to access the BIOS on my new HP Compaq 6200 Pro. I needed to enable the VT-x extensions to run some virtual machines. All the documentation says to use ESC or F10 at the splash screen. However, no matter what I did, the computer was not recognizing [...]