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Use following command in your shell:
#sudo apt-get install php5-cli

Add Service:
# update-rc.d apache2 defaults

Remove Service:
# update-rc.d -f apache2 remove

More Infos you can get here:
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-manage-services-with-update-rc.d

Command Prompt Command:
> Vssadmin List Providers

In the registry you will find them here:
HK\LM\System\Currentcontrolset\services\VSS\Providers

I had some trouble with our Backup System today and noticed that that another VSS was installed. After removing the Acronis Registy entry it worked like a charm.

We have a monitor at our work which we use to monitor our company’s state. But how lazy I am I was looking for a quick solution to switch off and on this screen. So I don’t need to do this task anymore each morning;-) I did some research on the net but didn’t found a solution to do it with the Windows inbuilt functions. Then I discovered this great command prompt tool: Nircmd. It offers a lot of other functions. Just copy it into your Windows System 32 folder and you can simply run the command “nircmd monitor off” to switch off your screen. I used Windows Task Planer to run it each morning (switch on) and evening (switch off). Check out this great tool which offers heaps of other functions:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

1. Install
apt-get install ntpdate

2. Create a new file in /etc/cron.hourly
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/ntpdate your_timeserver >> /var/log/ntpdate.log

3. Give the file run rights
chmod +x file_name

Here a couple of quick and dirty examples:
sc \\REMOTEMACHINE query
sc \\REMOTEMACHINE start SERVICE_NAME
sc \\REMOTEMACHINE config SERVICE_NAME start= auto

1. Install Kernel Heaeders

1. Get the Kernel version and remember it with:
   uname-r
2. apt-get install linux-headers-[Kernel Version]

2. Install VMWare Tools

1. Choose “install and upgrade VMWTools in VMWare” in your VM menu
2. mount /dev/hda /media/cdrom
3. cd /media/cdrom/
4. cp VMWareTools[whateverversion]tar.gz /tmp/
5. cd /tmp
6. tar xvzf VMWareTools[whateverversion]tar.gz
7. umount /media/cdrom/
8. cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
9. make a symlink:
   ln –s /usr/src/linux-headers-[Kernel Version] /usr/src/linux
10. apt-get install gcc-4.1
11. change using gcc version:
    export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1
12. I had make and killall missing on my installation so can you get it:
    apt-get install psmisc make
13. ./vmware-install.pl

3. Uninstall VMWare Tools
After a failed installation of VMWare Tools I got following message:
A previous installation of VMWare Software has been detected… You may want to re-install VMWare Tools.

The solution was to run the uninstaller first and run the VMWare setup again:
1. ./vmware-uninstall.pl