Beginning from Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 it is possible to encrypt Windows paging file. Paging file can contain your credentials, passwords, session data, temporary data from database, etc. To check if encryption is enabled use the following command in cmd window: fsutil behavior query encryptpagingfile To enable encryption: fsutil behavior set encryptpagingfile 1 …
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Windows Update Agent downloaded and installed itself automatically
Today I noticed that Windows Update looks different (larger icons – different UI). It was strange, because I didn’t installed any updates and I have selected ‘Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them’ under ‘Change Settings’ under ‘Windows Update Control Panel’. I searched web and found that this have …
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Ubuntu Server: rename eth1 to eth0
Today I needed to change / rename network interface name ‘eth1’ to ‘eth0’, after replacing broken network card. I searched for the file ‘/etc/iftab’, and it was not there. The solution lies in the file ‘/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules’: # PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (pcnet32) SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:0b:49:81:02:13″, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”eth*”, NAME=”eth1″ Changing NAME=”eth1″ to NAME=”eth0″ did the trick. …