I needed to configure Bind today to use www.nicedomain.com and nicedomain.com (without the www) and I managed it adding the following into the zone file: @ IN A 123.123.123.123 www A 123.123.123.123 mail A 123.123.123.123
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Windows Server 2008 Gotchas
Install SNMP Service Under Server Manager choose ‘Add Features’. Add the SNMP Service (and telnet client too if you’re interested). Configure the SNMP strings from Administrative Tools > Services. Right-click on the SNMP service and choose Properties. Under the ‘Security’ tab set the community strings and addresses from which SNMP can be accessed. Allow Pings… Read more »
Winsxs Folder Size on Windows 2008
Fast running out of space on a Windows 2008 server. The problem folder was c:\Windows\system32\winsxs at 14.2 GB usage. The following clean-up command should help by removing service-pack packages which have been superseded: DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /spsuperseded
Wii WBFS on Ubuntu
On Ubuntu 12.10 I had been using WBFS Manager but I had a .wbfs file that was not recognised. I tried Wii Backup Fusion but got the following error message in the log tab: (Fri Nov 9 19:26:32 2012) Wii Backup Fusion 1.1 started. Wiimms ISO Tool not found! Wiimms WBFS Tool not found! Titles… Read more »
LiveCD to Reset Windows Administrator Account
live cd reset administrator account windows Download Ultimate Boot CD and burn it to a CD or USB thumb drive. Boot the machine from UBCD and from the menu choose: HDD Data Recovery Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Follow the steps choosing the Windows 7 partition and using the defaults until you get to… Read more »
Ubuntu Disk Space Issue
I had a problem today with running out of space on my Ubuntu desktop that I rarely reboot. After running: du -a | sort -nr | head Within my home directory I could see that the file holding xsession-errors was the problem. This file had grown to 660GB for me. On reboot it is moved… Read more »
Keeping Services Alive with Monit
On CentOS install monit as follows: yum install monit Make sure it starts automatically: /sbin/chkconfig –levels 235 monit on The main configuration file is at /etc/monit.conf but this file loads in any files under /etc/monit.d which is where we will place our files. First comment out the following sections in /etc/monit.conf as we will be… Read more »
Page Speed Techniques
I’ve been playing around with the valuable feedback from Google Page Speed analysis and have managed to significantly improve the scores on some of my websites. For future reference I have made some notes below. Image Optimisation It is possible to optimise JPEG images with little impact on image quality. sudo apt-get install jpegoptim find… Read more »
Monitoring Child Internet Use on Ubuntu
So I wanted to keep an eye on what my daughter was up to on facebook etc. In addition to using OpenDNS and the Nanny parental control software in the Ubuntu Software Center I would like to use DansGuardian but that might take a little more time. One of the things I have done quite… Read more »
Ubuntu 12.04 QUB Wireless
Using Ubuntu 12.04 on QUB Wifi poses a few problems as there is a bug (bug report) in the version of libssl shipped with 12.04. To resolve the issue you need to downgrade the version of libssl If you follow the instructions from comment #37 on that bug report then you’re able to connect to… Read more »
