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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? You click on the icon and there is a warning message ‘Some files on this page are unencrypted.’ This is because something on the page is still referring to […]
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. The way to make this work […]
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. I checked […]
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. Sometimes when building a client site I will use a commercial theme as a basis and one place I get my themes from is WooThemes. They offer some nice […]
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. There is a reason for this. MySQL will not garbage collect the old data as it’s all […]
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. Log in to your mysql slave and make sure that nothing is accessing the slave database. Run the following commands. Note: There is a space between the […]
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 […]
Is your mac mini ethernet port not working or has stopped working after you’ve changed something in your network, or just added one to your existing network? Today I was configuring a brand new Mac Mini with OS X 10.7.4 server on it and I had it plugged into a Meraki MX80 and it was […]
You may have noticed that my site has been showing nothing but a static page with a message ‘I’ll Be Back Soon, Something Broke‘. What actually happened is that my site was script hacked. I had foolishly left an old piece of software sitting on my personal domain and that was their point of entry. […]
I’ve raged a lot on my networks about how crap my Apple Magic Mouse battery life has been and how it keeps constantly disconnecting. I would get constant disconnects and I have done research and found one suggesting that the battery contacts were getting bumped so I jammed a piece of paper in there and […]
