Category: Geek

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 This has since been replaced by a new system called Oddjobd and after the standard authconfig tool I enabled the auto create home directories and then Oddjobd fails to start.

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...

Mac Mini Ethernet Port Not Working [Solved]

August 1, 2012

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 all working just peachy.

Apple Magic Mouse keeps disconnecting [SOLVED]

August 11, 2011

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 it appeared that it was...