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Cisco SRP527W Setup & Users
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. A few things that I had forgotten about…
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Outlook 2013 Messages Stuck in Outbox [Fixed]
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…
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Samba 3.6 idmap
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…
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VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone – key can’t be retrieved. (return code 2) [SOLVED]
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…
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Thoughts on WooThemes Pricing Changes
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…
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Reclaim Disk Space from InnoDB with MySQL
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…
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Remove A MySQL Replication Slave
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…
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VMware vCenter Server Appliance Wildcard SSL Not Supported
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…
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Mac Mini Ethernet Port Not Working [Solved]
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…
