Sub ReplaceWithCheckBoxes()
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = ChrW(61551)
        .Replacement.Text = ChrW(9744)
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    Do While Selection.Find.Execute
    Selection.Range.ContentControls.Add (wdContentControlCheckBox)
    Loop
    End With
End Sub

Making note of this because I use it so often.  It is an easy way to find where configuration files are after making a change in a GUI.

Lists the last 10 recently edited files:

find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -10

Install PowerBroker Identity Services from their website. I personally only install the the pbis-open.deb and pbis-open_upgrade.deb.

Prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common

You are going to get an error about PAM conflicts with likewise. Just ignore and go on.

sudo /opt/pbis/bin/domainjoin-cli join domain.fqdn username
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config AssumeDefaultDomain 1
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config UserDomainPrefix DOMAIN
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config RequireMembershipOf DOMAIN\\group1 DOMAIN\\group2
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config LoginShellTemplate /bin/bash
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/samba-interop-install --install
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
        security = ADS
        workgroup = DOMAIN
        realm = DOMAIN.FQDN
        machine password timeout = 0
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
#       log level = 2
        Kerberos method = dedicated keytab
        dedicated keytab file = /etc/krb5.keytab

[share]
        writeable = yes
        create mode = 777
        path = /share
        directory mode = 777
        valid users = @DOMAIN\groupname

sudo service smbd restart

Should work!

find . -printf "%T@ %Tc %p\n" | sort -n

I’m a big fan of the newest feature in GIMP called Single Window Mode. You have to add this PPA to get Gimp 2.8 in Ubuntu 12.04.

sudo su
add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp -y && apt-get update && apt-get install gimp -y

Open GIMP, click on Windows and click on Single Window Mode.

Yay!

So the other day I wanted to swap out the hard drives in my laptop. I had a sata hard drive that had slightly better performance and I wanted to trade to use the slower hard drive in another project. I figured it would be an easy fix since I pretty much have a good understanding of Linux now. However, I was wrong. My first attempt was booting a live cd, using gparted to create my partitions, then using rsync to clone the hard drive. I attempted 3 times and each time it rebooted I got an error about X being in safemode. All my files were there, I had fixed the boot sector but it still failed. I ended up using DD to copy the partitions and fschk to fix the filesystem size on the new partition. I’ll have to wait until my next need to try out these commands but I wanted to document them.

From a live CD and after clicking on each partition in nautilus to mount them: (found these switches online, untested)

rsync -aAXv /media/BLKIDOFOLDHDD /media/BLKIDOFNEWHDD

To reinstall grub:

install-grub --boot-directory /media/BLKIDOFNEWHDD /dev/sdx

You need to update the /etc/fstab on your new hard drive. You will need to know the BLKID of your newly created partitions. At the command prompt you need to run:

blkid
sudo gedit /media/BLKIDOFNEWHDD/etc/fstab

That should be it. The new hard drive should boot. If nothing else at least some of my commands are documented here for myself and I can test out that rsync command later.

This is basically for my own documentation as there are hundreds of howto’s already for Ubuntu.

I always do a basic install. After that I start customizing… installing many of my basic programs.

I always run this immediately after install… Update & Reboot.

sudo su
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras -y && init 6

Install VLC Media Player and LIBDVD

sudo apt-get install vlc -y
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

I like to make sure my LibreOffice is totally up to date…

sudo su
apt-add-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa -y && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Installing Google Chrome and Dropbox are high priorities.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/index.html#eula
https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx

Also, if I want Conky…

sudo apt-get install conky -y
cd ~/Downloads && wget http://db.tt/sQdJaud6 -O conky.tar.gz && tar -C ~/ -zxvf conky.tar.gz

You’ll then need to add ~/.conky-start to the startup.

I’m a fan of dark wallpapers…

Ran into a virus that changed all the windows attributes on all the files/folders at the root of a network share. Every file and folder had the Read Only, System, and Hidden attribute set.

I tried using “attrib -r -h -s /s /d” but for some reason it didn’t change the SYSTEM on the folders.

Final fix was:

for /f "tokens=*" %i in ('dir /b /a:d') do attrib -r -h -s "%i"

Hope this helps someone else.

To scan a linux filesystem and find all files containing a specific string.

find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i STRING

We have a policy to retain our security log files for 90 days. Our domain policy is setup to auto archive the logs instead of overwriting them. The problem is that the 90 day rule doesn’t stick since there aren’t any entries in the current log file for longer than 90 days. Over the course of the year the log files will eventually fill up our servers c:\ drive.

A quick remedy….

forfiles -p "c:\windows\system32\winevt\logs" -s -m Archive-Security* -d -90 -c "cmd /c del @path"