21
Nov
2012

Bind DNS entry with and without “www”

bind

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      ... » More

19
Nov
2012

Windows Server 2008 Gotchas

windows

 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... » More

19
Nov
2012

Winsxs Folder Size on Windows 2008

windows

Disk Usage Analyser Winsxs Folder 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 The following clean-up command should help by removing service-pack packages which have been superseded: DISM.exe /online... » More

09
Nov
2012

Wii WBFS on Ubuntu

games

QWBFS WBFS Manager on Ubuntu Linux 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... » More
07
Nov
2012

LiveCD to Reset Windows Administrator Account

windows

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... » More

31
Oct
2012

Ubuntu Disk Space Issue

ubuntu

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... » More

29
Oct
2012

Keeping Services Alive with Monit

apache, linux

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... » More

25
Oct
2012

Page Speed Techniques

web design

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... » More

17
Oct
2012

Monitoring Child Internet Use on Ubuntu

linux, 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... » More

24
Sep
2012

Ubuntu 12.04 QUB Wireless

network

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... » More