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Windows Event Log is a convenient event store to log information. Once data is in Windows Event log it can be correlated with other information on the system.  There two basic steps to do this: Create log location and source Write log information into that location and source To create log location and source, do: PS C:\> New-EventLog -LogName 8thstring -Source 8thSource Where: 8thstring is the log location 8thSource is the source You have to run this on an elevated PowerShell session. And if you have Windows Event Viewer open, you have to close it and re-open to see the new log. This should show up under Applications and Service Logs .  To write to that log location and source, do: PS C:\> Write-EventLog -LogName 8thstring -Source 8thSource -Message "Hello world" -EventId 0 -EntryType information Where: -LogName 8thstring //8thstring was created using New-EventLog above -Source 8thsource //8thSource was also created as part of New-EventLog call above - Mess

USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates "USB I/O messages" into TCP/IP payloads and transmits them between computers. A fork of USB/IP client on Windows is located here . Getting this forked version to work with Windows Sever 2008 R2 is not straightforward. I have documented below how I was able to get it to work 2008 R2. Download 0.1.0 (https://github.com/cezanne/usbip-win/releases/tag/v0.1.0), download all into a directory excluding source* Remember to unblock the files Save to c:\usbip Download x64 build for Win7 (https://github.com/cezanne/usbip-win/files/4743857/usbip_vhci_v0.1.0_win7_x64.zip) Unblock the zip file Extract Copy the files and overwrite files in c:\usbip Allow running non-validated driver bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING ON Restart computer Import certificates manually Run mmc.exe File | Add/Remove Snap-in… In Available snap-ins

sudo ip addr add 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0 dev eth0 sudo ip link set dev eth0 up

This post shows how to convert unsigned int (DWORD) to string using MSVCRT function _ultoa. Pre-requisite: Install MASM To assemble: \masm32\bin\ml /c /Zd /coff int2string3.asm To link: \masm32\bin\Link /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE int2string3.obj Keywords: Assembly, Win32

  After installing/uninstalling software in Windows Vista Business machine "Remote Registry" got missing in the services list. Poking around the registry, noticed that under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteRegistry", Start key was gone. See picture below for the location: Creating the "Start" key of type REG_DWORD and value 3 (Manual) or 2 (Automatic), then a rebooted fixed the problem. ~ts

After using Windows Vista for over a month my USB mice stopped working :(.... Fortunately this is easy to fix via trial and error on what driver best works for Vista. To fix this do the ff: Step 1. Go to Device Manager (devmgmt.msc). Step 2. Do Update Driver Software. Step 3. Browse my computer for driver software. Step 4. Select "Let me pick from from a list of device drivers on my computer." Step 5. If it was shown as unknown device, select "Mice and other pointing device" else select "HID-compliant device." Step 6. Click on "Have Disk..." Step 7. Drill to C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository. Select a folder with a name that start with msmouse*. Start with the folder that has the latest time stamp. If this driver does not work select the next newer folder until your mouse driver is installed properly. See below for related figures. Figures: Figure 1. Figure 2. ~ts

VirtualBox Guest Additions allow a good number of  host to guest integrations that makes using the VM easier to use, for example copy/pasting text from host to guest and vice versa is very convenient. Another useful feature is resizing the window of the guest VM. To enable/install VirtualBox Guest Additions, do: $: sudo apt install dkms From VirtualBox Guest main UI, select Devices | Install Guest Additions..., then: $: cd /media/cdrom $: sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run $: sudo reboot Note: Copy/Paste is broken in 6.1.4, see  https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19336 . Test build VBoxGuestAdditions_6.1.5-136446.iso works for me.  Keywords: Debian Buster, Debian 10.3