Windows 7 Boot Error with MpFilter.sys corrupted

After doing patch-Tuesday update yesterday, my Windows 7 no longer booted. This is the second time it happened. Last time I fixed it, didn’t get to document and it took me a while to figure out how I did it. This version of Windows is Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. After some digging, MpFilter.sys is Microsoft Malware Protection Minifilter, which is a part of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). MSE is installed on my Windows 7 machine....

September 11, 2014 · 1 min · 119 words · kenno

Set Timezone in Fedora 20

While looking at the log file on my Raspberry Pi (running Fedora 20 Remix), I noticed that the date/time didn’t look right. EDT is a North American Eastern Daylight Time, which is 4 hours behind UTC. You can read more about it here. In my case, I prefer the time zone set to AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time), which is 10 hour ahead of UTC. Here’s how it can be done....

July 21, 2014 · 1 min · 93 words · kenno

MongoDB warning: Failed to connect

After upgrading MongoDB from version 2.4 to 2.6, I am not able to connect to it from another machine. The firewall has been checked to ensure that port 27017 is opened for the machine that I want to connect from. So what else could go wrong? Well, I was impatient and turned to you know what… Google search. According to this link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mongodb-user/yhf05AW-hK8/YqES0cVIXlUJ, the problem is due to the database is bound to only local IP....

May 22, 2014 · 1 min · 130 words · kenno

How to test cron

So you drop a script in /etc/cron.daily. How to check if that script does what it is expected to do without having to wait, in this case, a day? Here is how: # run-parts -v /etc/cron.daily Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4984725/how-to-test-cron-job

February 18, 2014 · 1 min · 38 words · kenno

Install Google Chrome on Fedora 19

Add the following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo: Pick a version, stable, beta or unstable and install with the following command: Ref: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-google-chrome-with-yum-on-fedora-red-hat-rhel/

November 15, 2013 · 1 min · 20 words · kenno