While re-purposing a few old Google Search Appliances I set up a Network Boot Enviornment as follows: Install Dependencies yum install tftp-server tftp syslinux httpd dhcp Configure tftp mkdir /tftpboot vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp service... » More
I have three main proxy servers running Squid, Squidguard and DansGuardian servicing over 1300 desktop computers. The stock DansGuardian code includes a setting to limit the number of potential DansGuardian child processes to the operating system file... » More
I have a PHP web application that communicates to Windows Shares via the smbclient binary. My problem was that some characters (particularly accented characters such as é ) were not being shown on the PHP page and were even causing lines of output to be... » More
I ordered a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo from Amazon for £26.50 to keep my machine a little cooler than the stock heat sink. The two heat sinks are shown below. The CoolerMaster is much bigger and could be a struggle to get in to most cases but I am very... » More
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
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
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
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
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
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
While re-purposing a few old Google Search Appliances I set up a Network Boot Enviornment as follows: Install Dependencies yum install tftp-server tftp syslinux httpd dhcp Configure tftp mkdir /tftpboot vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp service... » More
