I’m officially a Blogger
Well apart from here that is. I’m being trialled by WorksWithU, an Ubuntu site. Read my first post here: http://www.workswithu.com/2009/02/17/first-look-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope/
View ArticleDamn Roundcube Exploit
Tempted by it’s snazzy interface, I installed Roundcube Webmail. Little did I know there was a known exploit for the version I installed from the Ubuntu repos. On Friday, Bytemark pulled the plug on my...
View ArticleInstalling Windows XP on an HP DL360 G5
Ok, this first of all begs the question why? Why on earth would I want to do this? Legacy, sorry, ‘cherished’ software requires that XP be installed but the DL hardware is required for datacentre...
View ArticleThe Solution I’ve Been Looking For!!!
When your DHCP server decides to stop working you’ve got a serious problem. When it’s a Windows server be prepared to jump through hoops trying to diagnose then fix the problem. After being led down...
View ArticleHuawei 3G Dongle Tools
I am making public two utilities written to monitor and control Huawei 3G dongles. Has been tested with the E160, E220 and Vodafone K3565 Huawei manufactured dongles. 3gstats v1.1 gives continuous...
View ArticleEasiest way to securely log in to a remote Linux server without the need for...
Never knew this tool existed: ssh-copy-id Set up your public key by entering ssh-keygen in a terminal. Enter ssh-copy-id user@host (entering the appropriate user and hostnames) and you can then log in...
View ArticleInstall Ubuntu Lucid Server to Xen guest VM under openSuSE 11.1
After many attempts and trying different methods I finally got an Ubuntu VM installed on an openSuSE 11.1 Xen Dom0 VM host. The VM host has a minimal text install of openSuSE so I use the vm-install...
View ArticleUse a question mark in a Cisco password
If you try and enter a question mark as part of a password in a cisco router configuration you get a new line saying LINE as it thinks you want help for the current command. The solution - send and...
View ArticleHP Management Tools In Ubuntu
Just found that HP makes various support tools for their servers available for a range of platforms here. This includes ProLiant Support Pack tools packaged for Ubuntu: hponcfg - RILOE II/iLo online...
View ArticleAccess jffs2 filesystem from Micromonitor Bootloader
Eg. Create a 16Mb jffs2 filesystem from a directory: /home/guy/Development/git_clones/buildroot/output/host/usr/sbin/mkfs.jffs2 -e 0×20000 –pad=0xFFFFFF -l -s 0×800 -n -d /tmp/output -o...
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