Mier v krajine USB

Pod *nix operačný systém, majú viac oddielov na USB disk nie je žiadna veľká veda, to proste funguje. V mojom prípade, Môj USB disk má dva oddiely, pretože prvý oddiel je zavádzacie Arch Linux inštalátor.

Mám Windows na stole doma – predovšetkým pre hranie hier – a mnoho mojich kolegov ju použiť tiež. Vzhľadom k tomu, Windows nerobí moc dobre s iným systémom než Windows priečok Myslel som, že môžem vytvoriť FAT32 oddiel na pamäťovú kartu Memory Stick po zavádzacom Arch Linux oddiel. FAT32 je takmer všadeprítomný a je použiteľný v každom spoločnom stolnom operačného systému na svete.

Bleh

Bohužiaľ to nefunguje priamo z bat. Zrejme, Microsoft vo svojej nekonečnej múdrosti rozhodol, že pamäťové karty majú mať jeden (a iba jeden) prepážka. V skutočnosti Windows nájde prvý oddiel a potom ignoruje všetky ostatné, ktoré sa dejú byť zriadená:

Chybovať, nie, Nechcem, aby si formátovať inštalačný oddiel Arch Linux

Trik ako sa to práca, je blázon Windows do myslenia zariadenia nie pravidelný USB flash disk, ale možno solid-state pevný disk ktorý sa stane byť pripojená cez USB. Áno, ja viem, To je vážne hlúpe, že systém Windows chová týmto spôsobom. Solid-state pevný disk je len monštruózne veľký (a rýchlo) memory stick po všetkom!

Našiel som niekoľko zdrojov o tom, ako to urobiť, ale ja ešte musel prísť na to, niektoré veci na vlastnú päsť. Konkrétne, vodítka som našiel buď preskočil niektoré kroky alebo neposkytol dostatok informácií o tom, kde stiahnuť balík ovládačov.

Tento postup vyžaduje manuálnu zmenou ovládačov hardvéru a inštalácia “non-podpísal” vodiči “nie je určený pre váš hardvér”. Viem, že niekto sa chystá rozbiť svoj systém a obviňovať ma tak teraz poviem, že som si žiadnu zodpovednosť za škodu, ktorú môže urobiť, aby váš systém Windows v dôsledku toho. Prečítajte si to ešte raz. 😛

Inštrukcie

Kliknite pre väčší verziu

Stiahnite si a rozbaľte vodiča, pôvodne vytvoril Hitachi, tu. Otvorte súbor cfadisk.inf do poznámok (alebo váš obľúbený editor jednoduchého textu), a nájsť úsek označený [cfadisk_device]. Odstráňte časť zvýraznený na pravej strane:

Minimalizovať (nezatvárajú) editor a prejdite na ikony na ploche – kliknite pravým tlačidlom myši na Tento počítač a vyberte položku Properties. Vyberte kartu Hardvér a potom vyberte [DEvica Správca]:

Nájsť zariadenie pod “Diskové jednotky”, pravým tlačidlom myši na Memory Stick a vyberte Properties:

Kliknite na kartu Podrobnosti a do rozbaľovacieho zoznamu na tejto stránke, vybrať “Hardware IDS”. Kliknite na prvý riadok v zozname ID hardvéru a stlačte Ctrl C skopírovať názov:

Nezatvárajte tento dialóg, vrátiť do poznámok (ktorý bol minimalizovaný) a vložte ID hardvéru do ktorých bol odstránený predchádzajúci obsah.

Uložte súbor v poznámkovom bloku a vrátiť sa do dialógového okna vlastnosť prístroja. Kliknite na tlačidlo “Vodič” Karta a kliknite na tlačidlo [Update Driver…] tlačidlo. V oknách, ktoré sa objavujú, vybrať “Nie, Nie je to Time”; [Next] -> “Inštalovať zo zoznamu alebo v sSOBITNÉ umiestnenie (Pokročilý)”; [Next] -> “Don't vyhľadávanie. Zvolím ovládač k inštalácii.”; [Next] -> [Have Disk…].

Prejdite do zložky, kam ste uložili upravený cfadisk.inf súbor. Kliknite na tlačidlo [OK]. Nájdete tu

je vodič Hitachi Microdrive uvedený. Vyberte túto možnosť a kliknite na tlačidlo [Next]. Po varovaní

Zobrazí sa, cvaknutie [Yes]. Ďalšie varovanie sa pop-up, pokiaľ ide o podobnom probléme (jedná sa o “nepodpísaný” a “nie je určený pre váš hardvér” varovanie som spomenul predtým). Kliknite na tlačidlo [Continue Každopádne]:

Na tomto mieste by som odporúčam zavrieť všetky dialógy týkajúce sa nastavenia. Konečne, vyberte a znova vložte pamäťovú kartu do USB portu, a mali by ste zistiť, že ďalšie oddiely na hokejky sú prístupné. V najhoršom prípade, môžete ešte potrebovať rozdeliť disk ale najťažšie je u konca. 🙂

I came across 2 bugs on Windows Server 2003 that are also relevant to Windows XP.

Short Circuits

1. Internet Explorer‘s Desktop icon is disabled. When you double-click on the icon, expecting IE to launch, it simply produces an additional shortcut. Subsequent double-clicks again produce more shortcuts. It is possible, as a workaround, to launch IE from the Start Menu.

My first guess was that malware was attempting to make me click on these new shortcuts where the new shortcuts opened further malware. This idea quickly faded though since, if malware were to have the system privileges to produce these symptoms, it wouldn’t need me to provide further privileges.

I eventually found tu what the actual problem was. V mojom prípade, the cause was related to IE6 being outdated. If a Windows registry entry is named “LegacyDisable” and is added to specific types of registry keys, it lets Windows know that the key is obsolete and that it has only been left behind for backwards-compatibility. V tomto prípade, it disabled the intended primary “verb” function (the double-click) of the shortcut: launching IE.

To fix, you can either update to the latest version of IE or fix the registry entry directly. If you experience this issue even with the latest version of IE then the registry value is the only way I know how to fix it.

Danger, Will Robinson!

Though this is a trivial registry change, the registry is still a dangerous thing to mess with so, as usual, back up your registry: See KB322756. Nobody gets to blame me for trashing their system. 😛

De-Register me!

Paste the following into a .reg file and execute it; or manually remove the “LegacyDisable” entries referred-to here:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\shell\NoAddons\]
"LegacyDisable"=-
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\shell\OpenHomePage]
"LegacyDisable"=-

Fire me up!

2. When trying to browse to any site from within IE, IE remains dormant while Firefox is launched. Firefox then loads the page which was originally requested in IE.

While many might most of the time consider this to be a triumph [insert childish laughter here], the site I wanted to browse to was the Windows Updates site which, unfortunately, does not work when using Firefox. The same would apply to other sites which depend on the web browser supporting ActiveX.

De-Register Me Too!

I eventually found the solution tu, and it turns out to be similar to the solution for the first bug – except that it is to remove an entire key. Znovu, ensure you have a backup of your registry before continuing. Here is the relevant content of the .reg file:

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{C90250F3-4D7D-4991-9B69-A5C5BC1C2AE6}]

I hope that resolves things for anyone else having similar issues. 🙂

[edit] So much for that. It turns out that openssl is able to determine that the key and certificate are already in a single file. Therefore, nie csplitting required (dobre, I hope somebody reading this at least learned about how nice csplit is). In fact, the whole script might as well be obsolete… blaargh. Well, at least it gives a nice warning about not giving a blank passphrase. 😀

Here’s the new version:

pem2pfx – converts a .pem-formatted file containing a private key and signed certificate into a Windows-compatible .pfx certificate file.

#!/bin/bash
#pem2pfx
#v0.2
#Chúlostivý - brendan@swiftspirit.co.za
# Converts a .pem certificate file to .pfx format
# $1 is the source file
set -e
 
if [ $# = 1 ]; potom
  outputfile=`echo $1 | sed 's/.pem$/.pfx/'`
 
  echo "Please specify a password below. Windows refuses to import a .pfx certificate with a blank password."
  openssl pkcs12 -export -out $outputfile -in $1
 
 else
  echo "pem2pfx - converts a .pem formatted private-key and certificate file to an IIS-compatible .pfx file."
  echo "Usage: pem2pfx inputfile.pem"
fi

viac…

The relatively new document types Kancelária 2007 has given some web hosts problems when their clients want to offer documents for download. Most often, the documents are being offered by the web server as “text/html” which is then rendered as a ton of garbage on the web user’s screen.

The best way to resolve this is to add all the MIME types to the server’s main configuration. IIS7 for Windows already has these MIME types set up correctly by default. IIS6 and IIS5 require the MIME types to be added, as might Apache on older installations. For Apache, there is also a workaround for the individual domain owner to add the mime types via Apache’s .htaccess súbor.

IIS 6 MIME type addition (for the Server Administrator)

Before this can be done, ensure that your server is also set to allow direct metabase editing:

1. Load IIS Manager: Štart -> Run, “inetmgr” -> [OK]
2. Right click the “Server” and click “Properties”
3. Within the “Internet Information Services” tab (usually the only tab), ensure that the “Enable Direct Metabase Edit” checkbox is checked.
4. Kliknite na tlačidlo [OK]

Be sure to back up IIS’s configuration (tu for IIS5) beforehand. I won’t take any responsibility for an admin breaking his server. I have reason to believe this may also work on IIS5 however I have just as much reason to believe that it might just give lots of errors. If an IIS5 / Windows 2000 admin is willing to test this for me after backing up your configuration please let me know of the results.

Copy the following text into a file named msoff07-addmime.vbs and execute it once from the commandline by typing cscript msoff07-addmime.vbs and pressing Enter. If you run it more than once, the MIME types will be added each time and you will have multiple identical entries:

' This script adds the necessary Office 2007 MIME types to an IIS 6 Server.
' To use this script, just double-click or execute it from a command line.
' Running this script multiple times results in multiple entries in the
' IIS MimeMap so you should not run it more than once.
' Modified from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752346.aspx
 
Dim MimeMapObj, MimeMapArray, MimeTypesToAddArray, WshShell, oExec
Const ADS_PROPERTY_UPDATE = 2 
 
' Set the MIME types to be added
MimeTypesToAddArray = Array(".docm", "application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12", _
".docx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document", _
".dotm", "application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12", _
".dotx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template", _
".potm", "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12", _
".potx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template", _
".ppam", "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12", _
".ppsm", "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12", _
".ppsx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow", _
".pptm", "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12", _
".pptx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation", _
".sldm", "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12", _
".sldx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide", _
".xlam", "application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12", _
".xlsb", "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12", _
".xlsm", "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12", _
".xlsx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet", _
".xltm", "application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12", _
".xltx", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template") 
 
' Get the mimemap object
Set MimeMapObj = GetObject("IIS://LocalHost/MimeMap")
 
' Call AddMimeType for every pair of extension/MIME type
For counter = 0 na UBound(MimeTypesToAddArray) Krok 2
    AddMimeType MimeTypesToAddArray(counter), MimeTypesToAddArray(counter+1)
Next
 
' Create a Shell object
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
 
' Stop and Start the IIS Service
Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("net stop w3svc")
Do While oExec.Status = 0
    WScript.Sleep 100
Loop
 
Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("net start w3svc")
Do While oExec.Status = 0
    WScript.Sleep 100
Loop
 
Set oExec = Nothing
 
' Report status to user
WScript.Echo "Microsoft Office 2007 Document MIME types have been registered."
 
' AddMimeType Sub
Sub AddMimeType (Ext, MType)
 
    ' Get the mappings from the MimeMap property.
    MimeMapArray = MimeMapObj.GetEx("MimeMap") 
 
    ' Add a new mapping.
    i = UBound(MimeMapArray) + 1
    Redim Preserve MimeMapArray(i)
    Set MimeMapArray(i) = CreateObject("MimeMap")
    MimeMapArray(i).Extension = Ext
    MimeMapArray(i).MimeType = MType
    MimeMapObj.PutEx ADS_PROPERTY_UPDATE, "MimeMap", MimeMapArray
    MimeMapObj.SetInfo
 
End Sub

Apache MIME type addition (for the Server Administrator)

Apache stores its MIME types in a file normally located at $installpath/conf/mime.types. See the mod_mime documentation for more on how it works. Arch Linux installs its MIME types at /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types a Parallels Plesk installs it in /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/mime.types. Your distribution might have it in another place, so find your mime.types file by running locate mime.types.

Add the following lines to your mime.types file:

application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12                          docm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document   docx
application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12                          dotm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template   dotx
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12                    potm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template     potx
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12                       ppam
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12                   ppsm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow    ppsx
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12                pptm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation pptx
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12                       sldm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide        sldx
application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12                            xlam
application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12                     xlsb
application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12                            xlsm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet         xlsx
application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12                         xltm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template      xltx

Apache MIME type addition (For the domain owner with at least FTP access – using .htaccess file)

Add the following text to your domain’s .htaccess súbor, most commonly in an httpdocs/ directory

AddType application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12 docm
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document docx
AddType application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12 dotm
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template dotx
AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12 potm
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template potx
AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12 ppam
AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12 ppsm
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow ppsx
AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12 pptm
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation pptx
AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12 sldm
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide sldx
AddType application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12 xlam
AddType application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12 xlsb
AddType application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12 xlsm
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet xlsx
AddType application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12 xltm
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template xltx

I’m very happy to report that 2 much-needed and related features I’d filed bugs for at KDE’s Bug Tracking System bugzilla were added to KDE 4.2‘s KRDC. KDE 4.2 was just released and is now available within kdemod (aka Chakra)’s repositories. KDE-loving *nix-loving Windows administrators rejoice!

• Ability to specify a default Username: Previously, before logging in, you’d be prompted for the username. Now the prompt is automatically filled in with a default username.
• Ability to recognise LDAP logins and remember the password using kwallet as an LDAP Login.

New KRDC options added

A very big thank you to the developer maintaining KRDC, Urs Wolfer.