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Cisco SRP527W Setup & Users

March 1, 2014

The other night I was helping a friend out and they needed a better adsl router/wireless router and I happened to have one of these Cisco SRP527W units at home. It's a good little set and forget device (when they behave) so I thought I'd install that.

Outlook 2013 Messages Stuck in Outbox [Fixed]

February 26, 2014

I've done a few dozen installs of the new office 2013 on various machines lately and until now all email hosting has been through either gmail or 0ffice365 so I hadn't come across the issue of messages being stuck in the outbox. In my case the email account in question was an IMAP account and no matter what I did...

Oddjobd fails to start [FIXED]

February 21, 2014

I was configuring a new CentOS 6.5 machine to accept Active Directory logins and up until recently you could use the trust pam_mkhomedir.so to auto create home directories on login. This has since been replaced by a new system called Oddjobd and after the standard authconfig tool I enabled the auto create home directories and then Oddjobd fails to start.

SSL Certificate: Some files on this page are unencrypted.

February 20, 2014

Ever developed a website, enabled SSL and then not had your browser show you a nice green SSL icon? You get the following in your browser?

Samba 3.6 idmap

August 13, 2013

I have a couple of file servers in my network running Samba 3.6 as member servers. Something that you would want to get going at some point is syncing the UID/GID across the machines so that if you want to move the data around the uids/gids are the same.

VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone – key can’t be retrieved. (return code 2) [SOLVED]

August 8, 2013

When trying to convert a running Linux machine with the stand alone converter I came across this error: I checked around the internet and came across this post. The guy worked out that he had a bunch of stuff in his hosts.allow and hosts.deny and added the other correct subnets and it worked.

Thoughts on WooThemes Pricing Changes

August 8, 2013

I use Wordpress as my CMS of choice for all my client sites for a number of reasons. This includes the theming capabilities and extensibility though plugins.

Reclaim Disk Space from InnoDB with MySQL

August 7, 2013

After writing the article yesterday about removing a slave from a MySQL replication setup. I was digging around the mysql data directory and noticed that the innodb data file hadn't reduced in size after I dropped the database.

Remove A MySQL Replication Slave

August 6, 2013

There might be a time that you no longer need a MySQL slave in your replication setup. You can remove a mysql replication slave using the following instructions.

VMware vCenter Server Appliance Wildcard SSL Not Supported

August 6, 2013

We use the vCenter Server Appliance which is an all in one SUSE Linux based appliance that is setup to run vCenter server in small environments.There are a few limitations with the appliance and they include Embedded database - 5 hosts & 50 Virtual Machines No update Manager vSphere Storage appliance is not supported vSphere converter stand alone is not supported...