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Accessing a EMC VNX 5200 from Windows 11

By Lux, on November 19th, 2024 Windows

This beast is quite old and requires an old browser with an old Java to be able to access it.

I used versions from PostableApps, as I do for accessing old Dell DRACs. In particular I used FirefoxPortableLegacy36_3.6.28_English.paf.exe and jPortable_7_Update_51_online.paf.exe.

“Install” them in a temp directory. Firefox will go into in FirefoxPortableLegacy36\ and
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Accessing a Dell DRAC5 from Windows 10

By Lux, on February 10th, 2020 Windows

The DRAC5 is an old remote access card, found on servers such as the PowerEdge 300, 2950, 1950 etc. I have one built in about 2007.
Trying to use it today with modern browsers and JREs will lead to errors, mainly due to added security improvements/checks which have been implemented since then.

Fortunately, there
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GetIF.exe on Windows 10

By Lux, on June 18th, 2018 Windows

2019 06 11 update:

GetIF is still working on Win10 1903. And I found that there’s a somewhat simpler way to make it work in win10:
right click on the getif.exe executable, properties, compatibility and choos to run it in XP sp2 compatibility environment.
Put the two files MSFlxGrd.ocx and MSChrt20.ocx (found
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Cisco VPN Client is still working on Windows 10 anniversary update

By Lux, on August 15th, 2016 Windows

I just updatet my Windows 10. after rebooting, it notifies me that the Cisco vpn client app had been removed because it is not compatible with the current OS.

But the app is indeed still installed, only not working. I did these steps to recover it, which resemble the original procedure to make VPN Client
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Utilities still working on Windows 10

By Lux, on August 1st, 2016 Windows

While I try to get used to the new Windows 10 OS, I think it can be worth mentioning two utility programs which are not officially documented to be working on this OS but I found them to have no problems.

The first one is MS Keyboard Layout Creator. I use this to create a
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(Italiano) Notebook HP Probook 470 G3

By Lux, on July 20th, 2016 Windows

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

Cisco VPN Client on Windows 10 without SonicWALL VPN client

By Lux, on July 20th, 2016 Windows

There’s plenty of info on the net about how to install and make work the old, unsupported Cisco VPN Client on Windwos 10, so I’ll avoid making cut/paste here.

The only advice I would like to add is that contrary to what I read around, it was perfectly feasible to me to use directly the
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Windows 7 setup on Zotac BI323 hangs at “Completing Installation”

By Lux, on January 24th, 2016 Windows

If you try to install Windows 7 on a Zotac BI323, you will find that you have to slipstream the xHCI drivers in the installation media before being able to access the hard drive and install the system. This is covered in an article by Zotac, and worked well for me. The utility provided
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Recover saved wifi passwords after changing wireless adapter

By Lux, on November 9th, 2015 Windows

I changed the WiFi NIC in my notebook. After that I discovered that the new NIC did not have access to the saved WiFi secrets that where saved prior to chaning it.

I ran a well known utility from NirSoft, wirelesskeyview. Thank you again, Nir.
The utility confirmed what was easy to argue, that
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IPSec VPN between Linux and Windows 2012

By Lux, on October 31st, 2015 Linux, Windows

I had to connect a Windows 2012 machine machine behind NAT to a CentOS 7 ipsec gateway with libreswan. No l2tp, just plain IPSec.
The windows machine itself was not a gateway, it was connected “alone”. So in my case there was no need for using RRAS.
I found it difficult to find
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