I could not find a way to reduce thee size of a WBFS partition (although there is surely someone working on this) so...To delete, resize partitions use Gparted as normal and create some empty space. To create (initialise) new WBFS partitions in... » More
Recent problem with a Proftpd server configuration on Red Hat/Centos. I had configured mod_tls but on this newer version of the module I had to add the following lines to my proftpd.conf file for the JScape FTP applet to work with:Connection Type FTP/SSL... » More
Having recently heard an acoustic version of VV Brown's Shark in the Water I wanted an audio file I could listen to until it is released in 2 weeks. There was an acoustic version in a London Cab on Youtube so:I grabbed the youtube video using youtube-dl... » More
For local development to install Apache, MySQL, PHP:apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql phpmyadminConfiguration files are in /etc e.g./etc/apache2/etc/php5/etc/mysql/etc/phpmyadminDeamons are started by... » More
Getting a bit peeved with the copy command prompting to overwrite files.cp -rf ./* ./another/location/cp: overwrite `/filename.conf'? yThe '-i' interactive option is obviously aliases into the copy command on Centos (even the -f option was not overriding... » More
Needing to extract the contents of a CentOS iso file so that it could be used to http / kickstart installs:mkdir tmp_mntmkdir ./5.3mount -o loop ./CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso ./tmp_mntcp -R ./tmp_mnt/* ./5.3
I am trying to get the the mailbox folder sizes for a user with many folders. Wouldn't it be great if I could just:get-mailboxfolderstatistics USER | grep "foldernamepattern" | ftObviously this does not work so:Get-MailboxFolderStatistics USER | Where {... » More
We had an Exchange user with message items appearing in her OWA outbox but which did not display in Outlook. Attempts to delete these items failed and the items kept re-appearing in the OWA outbox possibly indicating some sort of corruption of these... » More
Attempting to move a mailbox from one database to another and received the following error:The address list service on the server 'SERVERNAME' is not running. The Exchange server address list service failed to respond.Solution: The 'Microsoft Exchange... » More
Motivation Parental Control / Protecting my kids from some of the nastier stuff on the web is my motivation. On M$ Windows there are commercial offerings such as NetNanny. On Linux I had briefly tested and used Squid with DansGuardian - likely more... » More