If you are using Google Apps IMAP Mail in Thunderbird 3.0b2 you might have trouble sending email until you set your secure SMTP settings to look like this: I followed the online info Google posts but it looks like the new tb3.0b2 has some mislabelled settings. Once I...
Cisco 877 – Squid Cache
I recently went from having a Linux CentOS release 5.3 gateway firewall running Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE21 to a Cisco 877 ADSL gateway. Very quickly my users complained of r_e_a_l_l_y slow internet. With only the Cisco 877 in place every single request was...
Date to Ordinal Days
I recently had to create a reasonably meaningful batch number for some GS1 compliant SSCC labels. I have an Internet Explorer Interface that submits the request to our ERP system. Due to legacy issues the batch number was restricted to 6 numeric digits. Some...
Fedora 11
The Fedora 11 Feature List seems to cover alot of the Ubuntu 9.04 ground. Everyone seems to be on the 20 second boot wagon. The only thing I'm presuming will be a problem is that you don't get a one click MP3 support install as for Ubuntu. So Fedora 11 still requires...
OpenVPN – Make Routing Mode behave like Bridging Mode
Note: This post isn't complete. I have this configuration working for myself, but the IPTables rules are taken from a very big script and may not be complete. Email me if you have a question or if you can explain this better. Anyway hopefully there is enough here to...
Ubuntu cannot Ping a FQDN when avahi-daemon is running
My work laptop recently suffered a massive loss of disk space on the Windows XP partition resulting in Ubuntu 9.04 appearing in the boot menu 🙂 but I ran into a ... Problem: I was trying to setup Evolution Exchange by entering the Exchange Server name using the Fully...
Transferring a 100 number in-dial range to a new site
The Situation: I have just moved an Alcatel OmniPCX(old site) to replace an NEC Xen IPK(new site). And transferred the old sites 100 number range to run concurrently with the new sites existing 100 number in-dial range. Old Site: Good Alcatel PABX with good expansion...
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