Requirement: Build a web server that will receive email for a particular domain and discard it immediately (and silently). I started with a canned Debian 9 system at OVH, but this should work with other and older Debian versions too. Log in as root and make sure you’re all up to date: apt-get update && apt-get […]
The first thing you should do is make sure your remote control program is running properly at startup. I’m using TeamViewer so I just added it to the main user’s startup items. If you’re using VNC on your mac you probably don’t have to do anything special once it’s enabled. The problem with Disk Repair […]
Just some stuff to get rid of when building a basic-ish LAMP server in a VM: apt-get –purge remove gnome* baobab bluez brasero brasero-common cdrdao cheese cheese-common dvd+rw-tools ekiga empathy empathy-common eog espeak espeak-data evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common evolution-exchange evolution-plugins evolution-webcal fancontrol foo2zjs foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters foomatic-filters-ppds gstreamer0.10-* hamster-applet hp-ppd hpijs hplip hplip-cups hplip-data inkscape […]
After upgrading my new server from Lenny to Squeeze, I noticed that the iWeb default install on this machine had the swap partition on a mirror. Not that I expect this machine to be doing much swapping, but I figured I should fix it anyways. To destroy the array and make those partitions “plain” swap […]
iWeb currently only offers Debian Lenny as a pre-install option on these servers, but since Lenny is dead as of February 2012 I wanted to start with Squeeze. I tried the upgrade process from the debian.org site linked below first, but my server didn’t reboot properly after the GRUB2 install and I couldn’t even connect […]
OK, so I still have about 200MB of free space on the on-board flash in my Sheevaplug, but there would be much less shuffling things around and cleaning of things like the apt cache if there was a bigger flash chip in there. And it would be cool to have room for X and Gnome […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you install phpMyAdmin on your web host and all you see when you access www.yoursite.com/phpmyadmin (or whatever) is “Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!” you are supposed to just change the permissions of /phpmyadmin/config.inc.php to not be world writable (i.e. chmod 755 config.inc.php, or by using your FTP client). Some […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For some reason, it seems like everything I do is not like what everyone else does… or at least not what the people writing the software I use do. I started writing this as a how-to for others in this situation, but in the end it turned out to be more of an amusing story. […]
This is a pretty simple Powershell script that generates a random weekly status report and emails it. I wrote this script because it is important that I produce a weekly status report at my place of employment. The report is graded based on if it was submitted at all and secondly if it was submitted […]
I recently wanted/needed to upgrade Debian on my Beagleboard. The original Debian install was done following the instructions over at elinux.org. when I update distributions I usually prefer doing a clean install but since 90+% of my time on the Beagleboard is done while working remotely I thought I would give the upgrade route a […]
TF is that Exchange 2003 doesn’t know about these new-fangled file extensions so it looks at the headers and sees that they are zip-compressed and assumes they are ZIP files… We just need to add the proper MIME types to Exchange which will in turn set up the attachment properly in OWA. Open Exchange System […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For future reference, running these commands in a shell is much faster than trying to follow Microsoft’s Knowledge Base instructions (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042). C:> w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:”0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org”,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL C:> w32tm /config /update C:> net stop w32time C:> net start w32time C:> w32tm /resync /nowait Thanks to Dave Nickason who posted this in 2008 to the […]
OK, so I know these cell phone companies think they’re doing everyone a favor by setting up their own custom software loads and wallpaper and crap, but come on… Basically, if you go to Telus and buy a Pearl 9100, they will helpfully install your SIM card in it and make sure you can make […]
My Linux background centers around RedHat and Centos. I have been using yum for a long time and I am very comfortable with it. One of the greatest frustrations I have with ubuntu is having difficulty finding the packages I need easily from the command line. I realize there are a bunch of “apt-*” how […]
That title might be longer than this post, but if you’re running into problems with zone transfers that don’t appear to happen, check to make sure you are putting your zone files in /var/cache/bind.
So, as these things go, I spent 2 days looking at my OpenVPN config files and bridging setup before finding the solution to my problem was elsewhere. A little background: I created a new OpenVPN VM using the Debian Squeeze net install CD, configured it to match what was already working on a physical Windows […]
echo “# Disable IPv6” >> /etc/sysctl.conf echo “net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1” >> /etc/sysctl.conf echo “#” >> /etc/sysctl.conf reboot Oh yeah, and if exim freaks out, vi /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and change dc_local_interfaces so it reads dc_local_interfaces=’127.0.0.1′
Snapshots are available with VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server and ESX/ESXi. Windows has a feature called system restore. The idea behind System Restore is to revert to a point in history in case something goes wrong – i.e.: patch Tuesday. It’s an undo feature for your Windows OS. There is overhead for this undo […]
It is not a mystery to performance enthusiasts that hard drives are typically the slowest part of any computer. I’ve always been curious about the Western Digital Raptor series of hard drives. The original series was released in 2003 which makes this technology six years old. Being “old” technology one can now purchase WD Raptor […]
Sometimes you get an idea, Canadian Tire has a sale and tada you have a brand new Roomba to play with. In this case a Roomba 530. The Roomba has been very well documented and there are plenty of reviews out there so I’m not going to do that here. With a 16 month old […]