Copy to a text file, rename the file as anyname.mrc and load with mIRC client
–Code
on *:connect:{ ;If you doubt someone has you in the notify list ;the best way to trick them until you authenticate with X (undernet) and mask your IP address ;is to pick a random nick, which will overwrite the last nick ;you had during last quit!
if ($network == UnderNet) { ;Change according to the server parameters ;for authentication ;/nick rtkwt /nick $rand(a,z) $+ $rand(1,0) $+ $rand(a,z) $+ $rand(a,z) /log off /set %auth_username $$?=”Enter User Name” | /set %auth_password $$?=”Enter Password” /msg x@channels.undernet.org login %auth_username %auth_password /unset %auth_username | /unset %auth_password clear /log on ;Clear command above clears the status window, ie, from prying eyes ;) ;make sure status window is not logged ; /echo $me /mode $me +x ;To disable the automatic join, you can either delete it or comment it by using a “;” character. } }
Even though my blog has reached 600k+ visits, I am one of those “lucky” tech bloggers who is hardly reached through emails for some specific tips and helps.
One of the recent were about migrating from Developer 6i developed web deployment to Windows 2008 R2, and the asker decided to approach me through email after reading my post about installing Developer 6i suite on Windows 7 and later OS
There were many emails until I realized they have a web deployment! Using Developer 6i & I was truly impressed. Developer 6i setup was one of the toughest, when I tried it by 2004-2005 period and I truly given up once after a number of failures to setup it properly and “googling” wasn’t as efficient as today when a single search fetches you hundreds of blog posts those explain such setups minutely so that a beginner can, without sweating much could, almost setup anything!
The hacks I posted with my blog towards installing Developer 6i on Windows 7/later and Windows Servers did have it’s own drawbacks. Many of the Oracle products like Oracle graphs doesn’t work with the .dll hacks & we experienced unexpected crashes and I have made sure that I did warn the enthusiasts about them with my blog. Did it stop people from taking risks? I don’t think so
Our legacy Oracle database server hardware was 14 years old when we decided to finally decommission it. Many places around the world businesses never listen to the Administrators complaining about the age of hardware and how difficult it is to maintain obsolete hardware and software. Oracle database(proprietary) must be one of the widely used database without proper licensing and I hardly believe many small organizations will ever pay the unbelievable prices Oracle tries to extract from customers when they want to do proper licensing. Many of those environments may have new admins and the entire development teams dispersed or the software company that has developed the software diversified and started selling fish. Anyway, my asker’s situation was not far different. His hardware was obsolete and the company has brought him a new hardware with 4GB memory and he was desperately looking for a method to migrate from his Windows 2003 server to Windows 2008 R2 server
Can you/should you take risks by trying to migrate to a newer OS because there are “few hacks” available over internet?
I work as information technology manager and I will not let it happen, knowing and after having bad experiences. Instead I will try to find better solutions, like converting your Windows 2003 physical machine into a Virtual Machine and going online from a newer hardware and OS
Mr. Asker’s scenario
Windows 2003 Server with Developer 6i Web deployment and Oracle database 10g and his hardware has just 2GB memory!
His requirement
Want to start using the new hardware and Windows 2008 R2. Can’t take risks
My suggestion to him
Use VMWare’s P2V converter, Convert the legacy server into a VM
From the new hardware, run the VM
While I am NOT at all happy with the 4GB physical memory, I will suggest anyone who wants to go with such an approach to upgrade their hardware to have minimum 8GB so that the Windows 2008 R2 can reserve 4GB for itself, 3GB maximum for the 32Bit Windows 2003 Server and tweaking the Oracle database SGA to 40% of from the 3GB reserved for the VM!
Let us consider the few advantages of converting legacy hardware to virtual machines quickly
One can always take a full backup of the VM, based on mission criticality, in addition to the database backups. Such backups will help the administrators to restore the whole “machine”, if something goes drastically wrong
No headaches to figure out how the deployment was made, especially when there are hardly any documentations available explaining the setups
My asker got so excited that he stopped answering my consequent mails checking about progresses. That’s the downside of free consultancy in most of the cases. Oh well, that was not my first experience anyway. This year itself I helped someone to setup a 12c environment and when he was online, he told me how he had tears in his eyes and later he stopped answering my calls
I hope I made some sense with this post and if you are someone who is frantically looking for a way to “Migrate” without risking much, give it a try. Have comments or need more clarifications? Use the comments area to let me know about them.
Few weeks back I have decided to stop receiving the insider builds for Windows 10 as I hardly found anything interesting that needs such huge volumes of downloads and my precious time! (A bit prudish here). Well it was all easy…not entirely. Even after leaving the Insider program for this particular PC, I kept watching the Windows Update program trying to download the subsequent builds and miserably failing to install them. Fortunately for me, this PC is mostly used as a media center, hooked to my TV.
To stop receiving the newer builds, I unlinked my Live account finally and deleted the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder after disabling Windows Update for a short period.
Then I realized that I had this issue with a cumulative update KB3194496! Each time I tried update, the lengthy process will fail with “we couldn’t complete the updates, undoing changes.”
After few days search, I came across this link through “Bing”, the greatest search engine EVAR invented by a man!
Though there were many other POSTs explaining some different types of fixes, I opted to go with the solution provided by Microsoft, running a small .msi file downloaded from this link
I had a reason for choosing this fix, as I “was” an Insider while the patch was downloaded and failed the first time. Whatever, after running the .msi and answer with “A” to the prompt in the command line, I downloaded and installed the update without any issues. You may try the same, if you are/were an Insider!
We have relatively small network & upgraded all possible candidates to Windows 10 professional edition during the free upgrade period, to realize that our 15MBPS (Okay stop mocking us) fiber optic connection was choked & almost no browsing was possible as almost all the machines started downloading the updates. Our WSUS server cannot handle the Windows 10 unless upgraded and we were frantically searching for a method to stop the client machines directly downloading the updates & came across many beautiful blog posts those systematically explained how we could use group policies to control how the clients download updates.
One of the best posts we adopted for our network is available here
We tried the group policy workaround with few of the laptops in the IT and we were able to stop those automatic download of end number of updates those Microsoft pushed everyday to address the numerous issues they were not even able to fix with the anniversary update!
As a user with administrator privileges, start the local group policy editor.
Here you can choose, suitable for your situation. For me, notifications are fine & then I decide when I should download the updates.
Close the Group policy update MSC (Microsoft System Console) and you are all set. From next reboot, you will be given notifications about the downloads, rather than automatically start downloading and clogging your internet connection.
(If you are always connected to WIFI, you can use the “Metered” connection trick to avoid downloading updates automatically. As this trick is not applicable for Ethernet connections, I am not getting into detailed how to this time)
Important Note: You may forget to download and apply the much needed updates, so make sure you will never stop looking at the notification panel for update related.
