Author Archives: Hick Kural

Internet Slow – What to do ?

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Got call from customer saying that their Internet is slow and sometime drop out. And wanted to have a check. Well for case like this, I would suggest best to go and approach the ISP (You service provide) as more then 60% is due to the Service provide doing some work on the Exchange end or mis-configuration. And they are able to resolve it in very short time. But by getting us down, we still assist you to liaise with your service provide to resolve the issue. Which in the end you actually pay something extra. Although i charge min for that sometime but still incurred some cost in your monthly expenses. As we can’t go down without a basic fees or do it FOC because of the time spend. So is best to check the ISP and make sure isp acknowledge that nothing is wrong in their end and something is wrong with the PC before giving us a call.

Hickural

Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address

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Ubuntu Server after installation has set your server to use DHCP. you will need to change to a static IP address so that people can actually use it.

How to you change without using GUI.

  1. 1.Changing this setting without a GUI will require some text editing, but that’s classic linux, right?
  2. Let’s open up the /etc/network/interfaces file. And use vi, but you can choose a different editor

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

 

  1. For the primary interface, which is usually eth0, you will see these lines:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

 

  1. It’s using DHCP right now. To change that you need to add a number of options. Obviously you’d customize this to your network.

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

Now we’ll need to add in the DNS settings by editing the resolv.conf file:

sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf

On the line ‘name server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’ replace the x with the IP of your name server. (You can do ifconfig /all to find out what they are)

You need to also remove the dhcp client for this to stick (thanks to Peter for noticing). You might need to remove dhcp-client3 instead.

                      sudo apt-get remove dhcp-client

 

Now we’ll just need to restart the networking components:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Ping www.google.com. If you get a response, name resolution is working(unless of course if google is in your hosts file).

Article from HowToGeeks

Hukural

How to change the listening port for Remote Desktop

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Always wanted to change my default port for remote desktop connection and happen to find a microsoft articles on this.

  1. Start Registry Editor.
  2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\
    Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber
  3. On the Edit menu, click Modify, and then click Decimal.
  4. Type the new port number, and then click OK.
  5. Quit Registry Editor.
  6. Restart the computer.

The orginal article is here

Regards

Hickural

Network Connection Icon in Network Connection Folder missing Windows 7

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When for a job and got this strange thing where the icons are missing from the network connection folder in windows 7. One of the solution is the Network connection Services is not starting, that why the icons are not appearing on the system. You can start up the services and check to see if the network connection services is started or had been disable by someone (Or Virus?)
And just modified it from what ever startup type to manaul (Default) and start the services. Vola! the icons appear again. This is the same for Windows Printer icons, if it disappear, it is likely the print spool services is not started up. So just start the print spool services and all your printers icons will be back.

But some time print spool services stop with a reason behind and you might need to troubleshoot and solve the puzzle before it can start up again properly.

Best Regards
Hickural

Delete files that had been removed from Recycled Bin

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Well I also something make mistake by deleting files directly from the system, I like use the shift key which will remove the files from the system without going into recycled bin.

Well this is a lesson that I guess quite a lot of people had been through, And also i had a few customer who call me in to recover their deleted files as well. This is the trick that i use to do is first get a USB or Portable hard drive, download the program RECUVA from Piriform website. If you are not technically good enough, you could get the Recuva professional which has Technical Support included. And can get them to assist you in getting your files back. But if you are ok with software you can do it yourself.

First make sure you do not use the system any more first as you might write data to those deleted files location which later might cause your files to be unrecoverable. Plug the USB stick or USB drive and install the software into the USB stick or USB drive and run the program from there, in this case you will not over write the deleted files. Select the file type if you know what you are recovering. If you are not sure just select the Other which show all files. Select your location next if you are not sure then select “I’m not sure” to search everywhere on this computer. Enable Deep scan after the first scan which fails to file your files. The software will scan and give you are list of your files that you have deleted. And you can select it and recover to a new location, This is where the USB stick or USB drive come in handy, You should try recover to the USB stick or USB drive location so as not to overwrite the your hard drive.

That is the tricks. Hope that work for you.

Regards
Hickural