07

Oct

2013

WordPress Bulk Actions with WP-CLI

October 7, 2013 jonny wordpress

I manage a Wordpress Multi-user environment and needed to bulk add LDAP users (which is already quite easy) and also to bulk create blogs for users - which I couldn't find an easy method for. I started exploring how I could script the creation of this... » More

07

Oct

2013

RSA Security Console Forgotten Admin Password

October 7, 2013 jonny windows

My colleague forgot the password he used for the admin user account on the RSA Security Console - since it needs to be changed and a previously used password cannot be re-used. We have it installed on a Windows Server 2008 so to create a temporary admin... » More

04

Oct

2013

Media Streaming on Ubuntu with Mediatomb

October 4, 2013 jonny linux, ubuntu

Install with: sudo apt-get install mediatomb Amend the /etc/mediatomb/config.xml file. I find the  configuration below works well for all the video types I throw at it. Then access the web interface at http://localhost:49152 logging in with... » More

03

Oct

2013

Testing SMTP AUTH PLAIN Over TLS

October 3, 2013 jonny Uncategorized

To prepare to test a TLS connection to an SMTP server we first need to Base64 encode the Login credentials: perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("\000LoginID\000password")' The result of this is: AExvZ2luSUQAcGFzc3dvcmQ= I tried using... » More

02

Oct

2013

Retrieving folder.jpg thumbnails: PHP Script

October 2, 2013 jonny php, shell

When using XBMC we usually use the 'Files' menu. The folder icons under 'Files' do not show a preview thumbnail unless there is an image in the folder named 'folder.jpg'. I could manually search for folder images for each movie but decided that would be... » More

02

Oct

2013

Exim Troubleshooting

October 2, 2013 jonny linux

We had a bit of difficulty yesterday with LDAP / Active Directory authentication within Exim. Sending mail via SMTP with authentication was timing out and it looked like a TLS error. 2013-10-01 14:39:12 TLS error on connection from blahblahblah... » More

01

Oct

2013

HaiPai i9389 MTK6589 Android Phone

October 1, 2013 jonny android

WARNING: I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS PHONE, THE SELLER OR ALIEXPRESS I am adding an update to this original post as there have been some developments. I bought two of these phones (one for me and one for my sister-in-law) and we have had nothing but... » More

29

Sep

2013

Manipulating Image Metadata for Stock Photos

September 29, 2013 jonny linux, photography

On a Linux desktop one thing I miss is the ability to easily add metadata (exif / iptc) to the images I upload to stock photo websites. Adding this metadata makes it much easier to submit the same photo to multiple websites. The 'File Info' command in... » More

29

Sep

2013

Automounting Netgear ReadyNAS CIFS Shares

September 29, 2013 jonny linux, ubuntu

I wanted to use Autofs to auto-mount the shares on my Netgear ReadyNAS upon entering specific directories so... Install pre-requisites: sudo apt-get install cifs-utils autofs   sudo gedit /etc/auto.master Add the line: /mnt/nas... » More

29

Sep

2013

wine cmd.exe /c echo ‘%ProgramFiles%’ returned empty string

September 29, 2013 jonny linux

I had this problem today: wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string When I was trying to run Winetricks: sh winetricks msxml6 gdiplus gecko vcrun2005 Until I realised that I was trying to run winetricks as root rather than... » More