I was receiving the following error: The FTP settings are not valid or your FTP server is not compatible with Joomla!: The function "MKD" failed and stupidly blamed mod_security for [...]
Oct
2008
nslookup mx records
$ nslookupDefault Server: dnsserver.comAddress: 111.222.111.222> set q=mx> mymailserver.domain.com
Oct
2008
Outlook Web Access Light To the Rescue
Microsoft’s deliberate feature omissions from OWA Light came to the rescue today when some of our users could not access OWA full during a recent spell were we had to [...]
Oct
2008
Webcam on Ubuntu Just Works : Canyon CNR-WCAM413
I bought this particular webcam Canyon CNR-WCAM413 through Amazon as it was reported to just work on Linux – and it does on Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks to that french guy [...]
Oct
2008
Apache Troubleshooting
Occasionally some requests to web servers cause memory/cpu problems – for the wrong reasons and sometimes the right reasons. I recently had a problem with a Google Search Appliance crawling [...]
Oct
2008
Change Hostname
Great article here.Check current hostname: hostname Change the hostname in the following files: vi /etc/sysconfig/networkvi /etc/hosts Now run: hostname mynewhostname restart networking /etc/init.d/network restart
Oct
2008
Forward Root’s Mail
Forwarding the email sent to root on a system to another email address.vi /etc/aliases # Person who should get root’s mailroot: myreal@emailaddress.com The run:/usr/bin/newaliasesTest it.

