Arrange pictures in Windows 8 Gallery

Aug 27
2012

How to arrange the pictures in the Windows 8 Picture Gallery?

There is no possibility to configure the sequence, but you can do it using an old trick from Windows 7: append the sequence in parentheses to the picture name:
Picture23(01).jpg
Picture37(02).jpg
PictureIDontKnow(03.jpg)

winbindd at 100% cpu after system crash

Aug 17
2012

After a power shortage, nobody could connect to the Samba shares of a Debian Linux server, and a look at “top” on the Linux server showed that the winbindd process used 100% cpu.

The solution was easy:

/etc/init.d/samba stop
/etc/init.d/winbind stop

a kill -9 <processnumber> to the running winbindd process.

Find and remove the gencache.tdb file (/var/lib/samba/gencache.tdb on my Debian server).

/etc/init.d/samba start
/etc/init.d/winbind start
/etc/init.d/samba stop
net rpc join -U administrator%<admin_password>
/etc/init.d/samba start

This fixed the problem.

Configuration: Domain master is a Windows SBS 2003, main file server a Debian Linux Lenny server using winbind as primary autentication mechanism.