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  • suPHP and Plesk 8

    For anyone struggling with getting suPHP and Plesk 8 happening together – I have a solution. I have found this excellent, although slightly out-dated, article. While it was pretty much spot on the money, I will add a couple of pointers.

  • How to rebuild software RAID on Mac OS X

    Mac OS X: How to rebuild a software RAID mirror Found this great article on the Apple Knowledge Base… just in case anyone else runs into the same problems.

  • Enabling WebDAV for Calendaring on Debian

    Check out this article I found: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/285 It is pretty much spot-on the money, except that I had to resort to using Auth Basic with a standard htpasswd file. I am not sure on the details on that yet – it was a proof of concept for a couple of users. Once I have played…

  • LaunchDaemons and Mac OS X – OpenVPN as an example

    LaunchDaemons are the new “init” for Mac OS X 10.4 onward. I have successfully used it to start and run OpenVPN on Mac OS X 10.4 Server. Below is the .plist file I created to start and run OpenVPN on Mac OS X 10.4 Label org.openvpn OnDemand Program /usr/local/sbin/openvpn ProgramArguments openvpn –config openvpn.conf RunAtLoad TimeOut…

  • Mac OS X clients and Windows Server 2003

    Check out this link: I didn’t have to search for 6 months, but it is still hard to found out there on the net. http://allinthehead.com/retro/218/accessing-a-windows-2003-share-from-os-x

  • Issues with BigPond Broadband Wireless Crashing on a Mac

    I have been working with a consultant who has been travelling around the country with a roadshow and hasn’t been able to get his Telstra BigPond Wireless Broadband card working on the new Telstra NextG Network. I had a look at it this morning and checked everything… very weird symptoms – the software would start…

  • svchost.exe and msi.dll errors on Windows

    Check out this link: http://swigartconsulting.blogs.com/tech_blender/2006/07/windows_update_.html It saved me from rebuilding a friends laptop.

  • Managing SSL with Apache

    This is the best document I have found on OpenSSL and using Apache. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html All credit to the original authors!

  • Making ISOs from DMG files

    If you download a DMG file and need to write it to a CD or DVD but don’t have the necessary drive on your Mac, you can convert it to the Window’s friendly ISO format using the hdiutil command. The hdiutil command is only available in Mac OSX so these steps must be performed on…

  • VMWare and Debian

    I have been trying to take advantage of a quad-CPU Xeon server that I have recently acquired and decided to run VMWare. I have just installed it using the instructions I found here: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/03/vmware-server-beta-on-debian-status.html There are a couple of changes that I had to make… apt-get install gcc-4.0 ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 /usr/bin/gcc apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686-smp…

  • Fixed Cyrus mailboxes on Mac OS X Server 10.3

    Log into the server as root: sudo -u cyrus /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r -f user/xxx

  • A Better OpenWRT package directory

    If you are looking for the latest packages for OpenWRT, as at this time, the best place I have found is: http://openwrt.org/downloads/experimental-20050525/bin/packages/ Also, for some really good ideas and tips etc on OpenWRT, check out http://martybugs.net/wireless/openwrt/

  • OpenWRT and WDS with AirPort Express

    After happily using the previous configuration found elsewhere on this web log, I have had a little bit of a personal revolution and have decided not to use firmware that doesn’t fit with my understanding of the GPL and open-source. My new best friend is OpenWRT (http://www.openwrt.org). First, make sure you take a backup of…

  • PHP and Oracle 10g on Debian

    From a cached copy of the PHP.net website, posted by: mark at catalyst dot net dot nzed ReCompiling PHP4 to have oracle 8 support (oci8) on Debian Linux, using the Oracle 10g client libraries. Log in as root. PACKAGES REQUIRED: apt-get install php4-dev apt-get source -b php4 (Hit Ctrl-C once it has unpacked all the…

  • Compiling PHP 5.1.0b3 on Solaris

    If you are compiling PHP 5.1.0b[123] and you get errors like: ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections collect2: ld returned 1 exit status What you need to do is recompile the offending library/application and make certain that -fPIC is set in the compiler flags (usually CFLAGS). From the GCC documentation: If supported…