Remote call forwarding on the Meridian.

This is just a copy and paste from the site below.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1560875&page=6

RCFW requires the following:
• set the password length in LD 15, at the SCPL prompt
• add passwords in LD 10 and LD 11, at the SCPW prompt
• allow Call Forward All Calls in LD 10 and LD 11, and
• define Remote Call Forward Activate (RCFA), Deactivate (RCFD), and
Verify (RCFV) Flexible Feature Codes (FFC) in LD 57.

Changing "pre-Windows 2000" group name with ADModify.

I have 2000+ groups in AD where the (pre-Windows 2000) group name looks like random generated characters. I am lucky enough to have an application that still uses this name. Here is my fix.

Run ADModify and select Modify Attributes. Select a domain and domain controller. Show only Groups and Containers. Find the groups that need to be changed. Select the Custom tab and fill the blanks like below.

20 seconds to change 2000 groups!

How to count active users on a Citrix farm and display on a web page.

Get grep.exe and wc.exe for windows at unxutils.sourceforge.net. Create two batch files as below and setup a scheduled task for count.bat.

list.bat

quser /server:citrixa

quser /server:citrixb

quser /server:citrixc

(add more servers)

count.bat

list.bat | grep Active | wc -l > temp

copy a+temp+b /b count.html

copy count.html /b c:\inetpub\www

The files a and b are just some simple html. I now have a simple banner like below that is updated every five minutes.

Citrix Active 34

Aiming a satellite dish with Google Earth.

Lookup the azimuth for your zip code. Use the ruler tool in Google Earth to draw a line in the direction needed. Find an object on the line to use for aiming. I used the corner of a building.

I found a small piece of pipe and placed it on the mounting bracket. Then I looked through the pipe to view the corner of the building. I have 90% signal and it works great.

USB to serial adapter with OSX

I have a hawking USB to Serial converter I need to use with my MacBook. There is always a console port calling my name.

First I installed the Prolific driver from this page, Prolific. Now I just open terminal and type the command below.

screen /dev/tty.usbserial

I had to search for the command to close screen when I was done.

Ctrl-a k

iPhone camera + magnifying glass

Try this out for some cool shots.

554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

I spent a few hours tonight trying to get rid of this error from sendmail on Linux. I added the new domain to the file below and all is good.

/etc/mail/local-host-names

This was a BlueQuartz server that should do everything for you from the web interface. Once in a while, it gets confused. The domain was listed in the file as www.example.com. I added example.com

How to use a Voice Memo as a ringtone on the iPhone

You need to use terminal or SSH.

The voice memos are located in this folder as .m4a files.
/private/var/mobile/Media/Recordings

My ringtones are located in this folder as .m4r files. (Is this folder different for everyone?)
/private/var/stash/Ringtones.z8OJCu

Copy the m4a files to the ringtone folder and rename them as m4r. It worked but I might look for a GUI file manager next time.

iPhone + T-Mobile + Google Voice

(first photo with my iPhone)

I just wanted to jot this down in case I need it again soon.

• Purchased an iPhone 3G from Ebay.
• Plugged in an old AT&T sim card with no service to get to the home screen.
• Used iTunes to upgrade the phone to 3.0.
• With instructions from iphone-hacks.com, I ran Redsn0w to jailbreak and ultrasn0w to unlock.
  
• Installed Google Voice with Cydia and it works!

You can not get 3G with T-Mobile but Edge works. Email works great, Safari is a little slow, Youtube is very slow.

Free AIS message decoder.

This will decode AIVDM and AIVDO messages from the command line. I was inspired by the Joe Petrix decoder in Basic and tried to do the same thing in c++.

Source code

Windows Binary

Linux Binary(Ubuntu)
OSX Binary

Sample program output:

c:\>ais-decode

Enter AIS string. (Example !AIVDM,1,1,,A,1000vV@P00Idw98ATMk00?wj0<0n div="div" f="f">

AIS string: !AIVDM,1,1,,A,15LWgHpP00qdupBATUBbk?v00H0p,0*2E

ais_string= !AIVDM,1,1,,A,15LWgHpP00qdupBATUBbk?v00H0p,0*2E

message type = 1

repeat indicator = 0

MMSI = 365555555

navagation status = 8

rate of turn = 128

speed over ground = 0

position accuracy = 1

longitude = -88.043930

latitude = 30.708603

course over ground = 2764

true heading = 511

c:\>

Update: 2012
I just added an OSX binary.

Tracking network printer usage with SNMP.

First I need a list of printer names or IP addresses. This is what I used but my printer descriptions all have the IP address listed.

net view \\printserver > printerlist.txt

          (sample printerlist.txt)
          printerA Print IP: 192.168.3.1
          printerB Print IP: 192.168.3.5

I installed Net-SNMP and created checkusage.bat.

for /F "tokens=4" %%a in (printerlist.txt) do (
echo %%a
snmpget -v 1 -c public %%a 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.10.2.1.4.1.1
)

This will give output like.

192.168.3.1SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.10.2.1.4.1.1 = Counter32: 288975192.168.3.5SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.10.2.1.4.1.1 = Counter32: 19710

I tried this with various HP, Minolta, Savin, Ricoh and Canon printers. Now I can run this monthly and import into a spreadsheet.

What I really need are the counters for color and B/W. I can not find those with SNMP.

How to restart all the computers on your network with PsShutdown.

net view > computers.txt

I used Wordpad to cleanup this file. Replace all "\\" with nothing. Replace all " " with nothing. There were a lot of extra spaces in the file and psshutdown did not like this. If descriptions show up in your file, you may need to use Excel for the cleanup.

psshutdown -c -r @computers.txt >> log.txt