Kobi Shmueli's blog

PDFmyURL

2010-02-15T03:34:00.000+02:00

I found a nice website that lets you save webpages as PDFs:
http://pdfmyurl.com/

-Kobi.

I shaved my beard!

2010-02-01T03:58:00.004+02:00

Yeah, it happened again. I wiped both my beard and my moustache. What do you know, I almost look like a human being now.

Notes:
1) I said *almost*.
2) I said *look like*.

-Kobi.

Interesting way to debug slow logons

2010-01-21T23:42:00.003+02:00

Mark Russinovich (Sysinternals) wrote an interesting post of how to use PsExec and Process Monitor to debug slow logons:

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2010/01/13/3305263.aspx

-Kobi.

A notice to all the idiots out there...

2010-01-21T01:50:00.005+02:00

You only see what I want you to see.

Flooding me with my last name doesn't make you look cool, it makes you look stupid.

-Kobi.

iphone

2010-01-16T04:25:00.001+02:00

I figured I should try to blog from my iPhone...

Sent from my iPhone

hmm...

2009-11-21T05:17:00.000+02:00

hmm...

GParted (Gnome Partition Editor)

2009-07-07T23:24:00.001+03:00

Remember PowerQuest's (now Symantec) Partition Magic? I needed a similar tool (but free) to resize a partition some time ago. I found and used GParted's live CD: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

It was working like a charm...

-Kobi.

Pizza Vending Machine!

2009-03-28T06:38:00.004+03:00

Pizza in 3 minutes... wow, I need one of these. :)

Bahamut 1.8.6 is released!

2009-03-17T06:25:00.000+02:00

cmode +c bug that blocked some languages characters (like Arabic and Hebrew) made us release Bahamut 1.8.6. I have no idea what I was sniffing when I wrote that!

(and no, I didn't do it to stop Hebrew characters on #israel :))

-Kobi.

Bahamut 1.8.5 is released!

2009-03-16T05:02:00.001+02:00

It took us some time but we did it :)

Changes list:
- Fixes for x64
- Fixed squelch (for /part & /quit)
- Fixed compiler errors on gcc4
- Fixed a few server IPs leaks
- zlib sources were removed and bahamut now uses searches for installed zlib
- SVSHOLDs are no longer being removed by kill -HUP
- Splits of u:lined servers do not show the uplink server to users
- /who & /rwho parsing fixes so it won't let opers flood themself too easily
- /invite now honors umode +R and /silence
- New hooks were added for modules

I guess that's about it!

Bahamut can be downloaded from: http://bahamut.dal.net

-Kobi.

DALnet's new website!

2009-02-07T06:57:00.002+02:00

DALnet has re-launched its website (www.dal.net) today, brand new features include (but not limited to):
- The option to select your own skin so you can choose how the site looks for you.
- A knowledge base, where your frequently asked questions are answered.
- RSS feeds, so you are always up to date on DALnet news.
- An easy to use search function so you can always find what you are looking for.
- Tip of the day, our suggestions for how you can make your time on DALnet more simple and fun.
- A new Teams/Servers/Staff Directory with Ajax searches.

In case you wondered, it's powered by a FreeBSD machine running Apache, PHP, MySQL and memcached.

-Kobi.

First post for 2009!

2009-01-01T01:02:00.001+02:00

Happy new year!

-Kobi.

Pie chart

2008-09-16T17:01:00.002+03:00

(thanks bobstay!)

Another quote from Mark Twain

2008-09-07T13:28:00.002+03:00

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." (Mark Twain)

PAC-XON!

2008-09-04T23:21:00.006+03:00

I found this nice game:
http://www.kobi.name/games/pacxon.swf

-Kobi.

I finally left XXXXXX

2008-08-10T22:29:00.004+03:00

Today I finished a three months "project" at XXXXXX (the company name has been censored, duh!). To sum it up, it was a waste of time but oh well. The company sucks but I met some really good people there so it wasn't a total loss... :/

-Kobi.

Compiling

2008-07-25T12:03:00.004+03:00

(thanks bobstay!)

Windows XP SP3

2008-05-09T11:45:00.005+03:00

So I decided to install SP3 for Windows XP on my laptop, the installation took a little more than 30 minutes...

The only things I acutally liked were the Remote Desktop (6.1) and the native support for WPA2.

The installation without a product key feature is somehow nice too but I don't really need it as I'm going to slipstreaming SP3 to my current XP installation which doesn't require a serial anyway (VL included ;)).

-Kobi.

Independence Day - 2008

2008-05-08T11:30:00.005+03:00

Hi there reader, err... I mean readers! yeah, readers! because two readers are still readers... :)

Happy Independence Day!

...and I got this cool pic too:

-Kobi.

Happy passover!

2008-04-18T18:53:00.002+03:00

Happy passover!

-Kobi.

Windows 2008

2008-03-31T11:09:00.006+03:00

I added a Windows 2008 domain controller to my network today:
1) I don't need hyper-v so I installed "Windows 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V" which ran pretty quickly, I did the "Server Core Installation" ofcourse.
2) I had to change my computer name (duh!): netdom renamecomputer %computername% /newname:blahdc08
3) I set the ip: netsh interface ipv4 set address "local area connection" static 10.0.0.3 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.1
4) I set the dns: netsh interface ipv4 set dnsserver "local area connection" 10.0.0.2
5) I ran dcpromo: dcpromo /replicadomaindnsname:"blah.nonstop.co.il"
/replicaornewdomain:replica
/replicationsourcedc:"blahdc03.blah.nonstop.co.il"
/username:"kobi" /password:* /userdomain:"blah.nonstop.co.il"
/safemodeadminpassword:CHANGEME /installdns:yes
/rebootoncompletion:yes /confirmgc:yes /creatednsdelegation:yes

(I'm sure some people would prefer to write an unattend file but not me, I like to do things in my own way)

Everything is working just fine and I'm happy with it. I like the general concept of no GUI on servers, it's not what I want yet but it's getting there...

I also like the new "Protect object from accidental deletion" feature (I used to do it manually with denying "Delete subtree" until now).

-Kobi.

Nero via remote desktop connection

2008-03-28T19:14:00.007+03:00

I was connecting with remote desktop to my vista machine and wanted to burn a DVD and got this: "If you are running Nero burning software via Windows Remote Login, you might not be able to access your drives for burning. This is a security restriction from Windows".

I went to: Start --> Run --> gpedit.msc --> Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> System --> Removable Storage Access --> All Removable Storage: Allow direct access in remote sessions and fixed it by changing it to Enabled.

-Kobi.

Final Fight 2

2008-03-22T17:17:00.009+02:00

I found this nice game:

(direct link: http://www.kobi.name/games/finalfight2p.swf)

-Kobi.

חיקוי של משה מהישרדות

2008-02-29T04:59:00.004+02:00

Happy new year!

2008-01-01T00:00:00.000+02:00

Happy new year!

-Kobi.