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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…
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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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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…
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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…
