Archive for January, 2008

January 27, 2008

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

After a morning UPS loss, which took down my NAS and a few access points - I ended up getting dragged into repair work on VubuntuS, which is my PDC that has lost some quality of service over the last few days. The reboot of AthlonXP in order to reclaim ...

January 16, 2008

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Just wanted to share this one ... a new style of Trojan that gets around virus/malware scanners : http://www.crn.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=Y552U4ANNIFJOQSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleId=205604707 . Now thats kinda scary.

January 15, 2008

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Fixed my RoundCube virtual machine from EnSpeed today. Found out how to get into a shell on the VM, and then it was all me. When the machine is first booting, in grub stage, hit the "a" key to append to the boot string. Add a "-s" to go single ...

January 9, 2008

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Finally got vmware dev box back up. Turns out that I still dont know what the hell was wrong with that primary drive, but in the end, I just ended up adding an 18Gb IBM SCSI drive from stock, reloading the O/S, and setting it all up again. So I ...

January 8, 2008

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Spam is getting out of control since about Christmas eve. Im getting 80-100 spam emails per day. I get home to 100-120 emails, about 20-30 are real. Thats just rediculous. So I took some of the info from http://www.bluehostforum.com/archive/index.php/t-3749.html and the sa_rules_update.sh script from http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora_virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier_p4 and setup some additional filters. ...

January 6, 2008

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Cleared up space issue on turbo tonite. Copying Dee's pictures over, filled the /export/apps share. Gotta add a 6Gb disk to fix permanently. For now, I just moved the filling directory over to /usr which had about 1.1Gb free for now, and linked it back.

January 5, 2008

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Finally finished this mess up today. The samba PDC worked - set that up on VubuntuS and seems to be doing ok. There were a few accounts that didnt migrate over properly since they were already in the /etc/passwd file there (like pluzzi for example) - but otherwise seems ok. ...

January 3, 2008

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Spent the better part of the last 10 hours trying to salvage the data from NTServer. No matter what I did, couldnt get it running again. So Im moving the SCSI card, and dual drives over to a canibalized and modified IBM PC365 - since its also Pentium Pro. Good ...

January 2, 2008

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

What a friggen night last night. The last of my standalone hosts (hosts not hosted on VMWare) other than my firewall, crapped out. Its a Win NT4, PDC, License server, home dir server, smtp server, and app server - and was a DNS forwarder as well. So when it quit, ...