Upgrade time for an older storage server (really a workstation), running Ubuntu 10.04. The old workstation did not have any Sata controllers in it, so I had to install a new MASSCOOL XWT-RC018 run-of-the-mill PCI Sata controller. Popped in two brand new Samsung Spinpoing 1 TB drives (SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM) and […]
A recent upgrade to a new Ubuntu server version, caused my dovecote server to not be happy. Apparently in my haste, I had kept my old configuration files for Dovecot that had several features replaced or depreciated. I tried removing the package using “apt-get remove dovecot*”, but my config files were still left behind.
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Recently I worked on a client’s workstation that had a very interesting “infection”. Google internet searches would be redirected to random company websites and the Microsoft Windows Update website refused to load properly. The client was running Avast and SpyBot (with Tea-Timer). I turned up the detection level in Avast to show exactly what was […]
Recently I had a project that needed to create and format a word document, based on data from a MySQL database. While the solution was on an MS platform that had Word available, I could only use PHP for the scripting language as it was a language that was used by the rest of the […]
Four steps to add a new hard-disk to a running Ubuntu virtualized session, using Vmware. Add the new hard-disk to the Ubuntu vmware image using Vsphere or VMWare Server. Ssh into ubuntu session and run “echo “- – -” > /sys/class/scsi_host/NUMBER/scan” NUMBER is the scsi host value. It will not hurt rescanning a running host, so […]
I recently setup a test VMWare server environment on my Windows 7 workstation to run Ubuntu LAMP development environments that mirror my production environments. After I install an Ubuntu (or any Nix) environment, I typically install Samba services so I can easily copy code/images back and forth from my workstation to the development box. I […]
Great article from Wired discussing the increased use of Open Source technologies within the defense industry. I think its a perfect match. The example in the article mentioned that an entire project failed because a single contractor controlled the system. Seems that an open-source (albeit defense internal) project would have prevented this. Open source software […]
NOC-Lite-Mon (Network Operation Center Light Monitor) was developed as a light-weight computer system monitoring framework specifically for hosting environments where user software installation permissions may be limited. Monitored servers require only a base install of Perl (Active state Perl for Windows). While similar in design to Nagios, the purely Perl based monitoring system is significantly […]
If you are like me and have seen a ton of languages out there provide web services with a few simple instructions (Perl / PHP / Python), you may have the impression that it should be pretty easy in Java? Couple of lines of code and voila a server. A few more lines and voila […]
