Exchange 2007 Re-build Problem

We had a problem when re-building one of our client access / hub transport machines from scratch. The Exchange installation would not proceed as the machine existed before with the same hostname.To solve this we used the ADSI Edit snap-in in an MMC and:... » More

Killing Memory Hogs

On an old server I temporarily added the following script as a cron job to find and kill processes using too much memory. This is just a stop gap until we get to the root of the problem.#!/bin/bashfor i in `ps -efl | grep "httpd" | awk '{ if ($10 >... » More

Crontab -e returns a number

On a solaris system I sometimes try to edit the crontab file with crontab -e and all I get in return is a number (signifying the number of characters by the ed editor I believe).# crontab -e4025^C?The crontab file was not changed.I need to Ctrl-D to... » More

MySQL: marked as crashed and should be repaired

I was receiving the following error message in a MySQL database.SQL Error: Table './dbname/tablename' is marked as crashed and should be repairedSo first I tried: REPAIR TABLE `tablename`;However the table was still showing as crashed. Next I... » More

MySQL Structure Backup

To backup / dump only the structure of a MySQL database (without the data) use the following:mysqldump -u root -p --no-data --all-databases > /var/struct_only.sql

Unix Timestamps and MySQL

Unix timestamps (the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970) can be converted online at:http://www.unixtimestamp.comSome example dates:26 Feb 2006 19:37 114100066826 Feb 2007 19:37 117253662026 Feb 2008 19:37 120407262012 Aug 2007 12:00... » More

Exchange 2007 Receive Connector SCL Headers

Our Mailhubs set the following Mail header which is interpreted by MS Outlook when filtering messages to the JunkMail folder: X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCLA score is assigned to this header based on analysis by SpamAssassin so this header will have... » More

Magento Frustrations

Magento seems like a very good e-commerce application and for the most part is pretty intuitive but the following may help for future reference:Supported Payment GatewaysThere is a list of the supported Payment Service Providers on the features... » More

Bridge on Linux

A while ago I did a fruitless search for my father for a Bridge card game on Linux but didn't turn up much of interest. However, I recently read in www.LinuxFormat.co.uk (great magazine) about Contract Bridge which costs £15 including CD and... » More