IE11 on Windows Server 2008

Some notes:

- Download from MS is the same as windows 7;
- This can safe you same time: ie11 install error

Please notice when you cut & paste " from a website to the command line prompt sometimes it does not work. Just clear the quotes and add them again.

Reseting a SMC 8612T Tiger switch

What if you lost the password of an old SMC 8612T Tiger ?

The manual says that you should connect via console and use Ctrl U when it starts but this procedure will lead you to a password prompt. The password that you don't know.

Instead, use Ctrl F. As simple as that. SMC, please fix your manuals.

Windows KMS Server - Licenses

Diagnosing KMS is quite simple. Microsoft has a nice technet how-to here.

It shows this interesting command: SLMGR.vbs /dlv

It's also nice to know the registry settings on the client.

Error installing Java on Windows 8

If you get into this error while installing Java on Window 8:

java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.deploy.config.JREInfo.validateHomeJRE_int(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.config.JREInfo.initialize(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.config.ClientConfig.refreshProperties(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.config.ClientConfig.init(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.config.WebStartConfig.init(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.config.ClientConfig.<init>(Unknown Source) at com.sun.deploy.config.WebStartConfig.<init>(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.main(Unknown Source)</pre>

Just delete this file:

<User Application Data Folder>\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties

Google Drive API - contains querying a title

If you are using Google Drive API to list files be aware:

title contains <YourString> should be taken as title STARTING WITH <YourString>

If you have a file title such as  foo.extension  :

1. title contains 'foo' will be on the results
2. title contains '.extension' will not
3. title contains 'foo.e' will work ok as well

Use  fullText contains  to get the correct results.

  

Cisco Prime Infrastructure logs

Looking at Cisco Prime Infrastructure logs is annoying: if the logs are small, you can email them, but did you see any installation with small logs? The option to download the logs makes the appliance to zip ALL log files before they can be downloaded. It takes time.

At this time, on Cisco Prime Infrastructure, you can keep a maximum of  20 log files of 50 Mb.

Since there is no option to download just the ncs-* files, I use to ssh login into the console, get root, and ftp the files out of the server. The log files are located on:

/opt/CSCOlumos/logs

That's it.

TP-Link TL-MR3420 and the new 4G Huawei E392u-12 (TMN Portugal)

Just a quick note to let you know that the TP-Link TL-MR3420 works like a charm with the 4G card from TMN Portugal - Huawei E392u-12.

You just need to upgrade the router firmware and use the modem binary from TP_Link site.

If you are wondering about transfer speeds, I've got 26 Mbit/s for downloads and an amazing 18 Mbit/s for uploads.