The latest upgrade on Ubuntu 12.04 updates vsftpd to version 2.3.5 and they have made a change that requires the chroot directory to no longer be writable which produces this error when trying to connect. They have made an option called allow_writeable_chroot=YES in the latest build that had to be backported to use this functionality.
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Configure NTP Peers for Windows Time Service
To set NTP Peers for the Windows Time Service, enter the following at an elevated command prompt
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Windows Server 2K P2V Conversion VMware BSOD
To fix the BSOD “KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED” error that references the driver “scsiport.sys”, first install the Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 (KB891861) on the physical machine and then reboot. Then run the P2V conversion process over again and the new virtual machine will boot normally.
BackupExec 2012 Linux Agent SP1 Patch Update – Ubuntu Fix
Edit the patch file
#nano installraluspatch.sh
Insert these lines of code where it says “### INSERT THIS CODE HERE ###”
elif [ `cat /etc/issue | grep Ubuntu | wc -l` = 1 ]
then
if [ `which dpkg-query | wc -l` = 1 ]
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Install BackupExec 2012 Agent on Debian 3.0 Kernel
Props to this site for pointing me in the right direction.
Install the BackupExec Agent as you would normally (./installralus) and the installation will complete successfully however the service will fail to start afterwards.
Change into ralus directory
#cd /opt/VRTSralus/bin
Make a backup of libbesocket.so
#cp libbesocket.so libbesocket.so.orig
Install objdump
apt-get install binutils binutils-multiarch
Disassemble the binary to a file
#objdump -D libbesocket.so > libbesocket.asm
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IE10 Certificate Error Fix
To be able to access sites that have self-signed certificates or have encryption set below 1024 bits, enter this command at an elevated command prompt.
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Manually Restore a Clonezilla Image When Destination Partition is Smaller than the Original
Today I ran into some problems with a hard drive that failed in a machine and I needed to restore a Clonezilla image. Unfortunately, the destination partition happened to be smaller than the original image so I couldn’t use the wizard because it errored out claiming I needed to use the -C option. The only problem is that from within the wizard you don’t even have the option to use it. After some searching, I found a few sites that said to use partclone.restore -C -s – -o /dev/(path to partition) and that failed everytime but at least pointed me in the right direction. To make a long story short, here’s a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ that should accomplish our end goal. From the shell, do one of the following:
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Installing Logitech Webcam Software on Windows Server
Recently I had a bad run in when installing Logitech’s software for the Webcam Pro 9000 camera on Windows Server 2003 x64. 
After searching online for an hour or so, I found an article that showed the supported operating systems matrix for the majority of their webcams. Unfortunately to my dismay there was no support for any of the versions of Windows Server and when trying to install the software for LWS2.51 you get a nasty little error message saying some garbage about being an unsupported operating system.
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