Problem Ejecting SATA drives on Windows 8
The task’s simple: you plug in an AHCI-enabled SATA drive on-the-fly, you use it, and then you eject it. Right? Not so much. Windows can’t stop your ‘foobar’ device because… Read more »
Author Archives: noobient
Allowing users to control third party services via Group Policy
Preamble So you have an Active Directory domain and you’ve installed certain services on certain computers. Now you want to allow certain non-admin users to control these services, but for… Read more »
Installing, Migrating & Upgrading Redmine with LDAP on Ubuntu
Preamble Note for CentOS users: please refer to my more recent guide, Redmine on CentOS 7 This article will guide you through the installation, migration and upgrading of a Redmine… Read more »
Missing Windows Server Backup after performing Windows Update
So you’re happily using Windows Server Backup (wbadmin.msc), and one day you’re unhappily finding out that the shortcut’s gone. Not only that, but the file’s missing, too. It’s not in… Read more »
Fixing SYSVOL replication on Windows Server 2012 R2
Replication can get broken for various reasons. One vivid symptom is when you’re unable to run gpupdate because it complains about access errors. In this case, you can check the… Read more »
Windows 8.1 Activation Surprises
Back in the day, you used to have a little balloon in the corner reminding you from time to time that you should activate Windows ASAP. But those times are… Read more »
Lossless MP3 joining and Cuesheet generation
As I’ve already explained in audio transcoding basics, transcoding from lossy to lossy is evil and you should feel guilty for doing it. The same applies to re-encoding, i.e. taking… Read more »
Audio Transcoding Basics
This post is more or less a preamble for an upcoming article. Transcoding means we convert from one format to another one e.g. from WAV to MP3. There are lots… Read more »
Freedom of Choice
This is possibly the most overused saying in the open source world. The idea is that if you don’t like a certain piece of software, there must be a shitload… Read more »
Checklist for fixing printer problems on Windows
When your printer goes nuts and suddenly stops working, there’s a lot of things you can try to get it to work again. You can try these one by one… Read more »