• WordPress Plugins I Recommend

    I’ve been working and developing websites with WordPress since version 1.5 and before that I was using b2. WordPress has come along way from a blogging platform to a very powerful content management system. I’ve used WordPress to build catalog sites, e-commerce sites and even an ebay/etsy like market place. Some people like to have…

  • Oven Roasted Kale Crusted Freshwater Trout

    People that know me know that I like to eat healthy and a lot of people asked me for my recipes. After posting a prep photo on Facebook of my dinner the other night I had a few people ask me for this recipe. Oven Roasted Kale Crusted Freshwater Trout served with steamed sweet potato…

  • Active Directory Authentication with CentOS

    Active directory authentication for CentOS is quite easy to configure. Active directory is a central authentication system and organisations all over the world have relied on it for years. This is super easy to set up for your Windows and Mac desktops but is sometimes a little harder with a Linux workstation. This is all done…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Oddjobd fails to start [FIXED]

    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 This has since been replaced by a new system called Oddjobd and after the standard authconfig tool I enabled the auto create home directories and…

  • SSL Certificate: Some files on this page are unencrypted.

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…