http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/iosw/tech/plicy_wp.pdf Not redundancy but using 2 links to provide extra bandwidth and segregate services requiring responsiveness for users (VPN, Outlook Web Access) from background tasks (Email download and delivery etc).
James McDonald
32 bit Apache on Windows 7 x64 Error
Problem C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin>httpd.exe Syntax error on line 62 of C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apa che2.2/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf: SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes Cause...
Thunderbird Segmentation fault – Ubuntu 10.04
Just been having a world of annoyance with Thunderbird seg faulting. I don't know what caused it but I did install the Netbook Unity Desktop environment (which incidentally doesn't work on my box). So after the above I got: This fails myuser@mybox:~$ thunderbird...
Spamwise.org – Spamming Us to Tell Us About Spamming
Just received the below email from Spamwise. They harvested one of my email addresses from my blog, so they could send me an email, to tell me my email addresses could be harvested by Spammers, with the stated intention of reducing unnecessary emails. So anyway, I try...
Gallery 3 Super-Large Thumbnails
Problem: The G3 RC2 Gallery, in album view, displays random `thumbnails' that are full sized. (e.g. the size of the real photo). Cause I am trialling Gallery 3 RC2 hosted on Dreamhost shared hosting. I think the way Gallery 3 generates thumbnails is that it takes the...
Encryption Overhead – Sometimes Good Ol’ FTP is the Answer
I just started copying some files from a Windows XP Pro VMWare VM to a Redhat 3.1 Server VM hosted on their own private network on a VMWare ESXi 4.x server. Using WinSCP from the XP Pro Client with SSH as the transfer protocol I was seeing ~5,000KB/s. So I stopped the...
Roof Restoration
Our humble timber cottage has an old tin roof. We can't afford to get it replaced at the moment but have gotten it pressure washed and painted in Shale Grey Colour. So now we are waiting for Google Maps to update it's...
Back to Ubuntu 10.04
I have for several months been giving Fedora 13 a go as my primary OS. Fedora is what it is— A beta release for a product that will be rebadged and released when it's finished. As a distribution it's not really playing in the same league as Ubuntu. The polish...
Bluefish for Windows
Attempting to install Bluefish on Windows XP Pro SP3 I went here http://code.google.com/p/bluefish-win/ Which sent me to here http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluefish/files/ Which gave me a download link here...
Separate Websites should be run under separate User Accounts
If you have an account with a webhost which allows you to run multiple domains (or even `unlimited' domains ala Dreamhost). You may be tempted to run multiple websites under the default account that is provided by the hosting company. But while convenient, this has a...
jQuery .find() on a namespaced XML node fails on Google Chrome
Ran into a problem with a jQuery AJAX script that parses returned XML. It wouldn't work on Google Chrome when looking for a namespaced xml node using jQuery.find(). Apparently this (xml namespaces) can cause jQuery some minor heartburn but it's not a show stopper. A...
Fanboy Post Alert – Why can I run a secure modern operating system on a P4?
My home computer is a P4. P4's are like 6+ years old. However it's still suitable for what I use it for. In fact it's performance has been improving of late. Why? Linux is maturing and the people who are designing the entire GNU/Linux eco-system are optimizing. Here...
Dia — Joining Lines where they Cross over Each Other
Dia is a great Open Source diagramming program that has extensive `shape' libraries for a lot of different applications (I use it for drawing network diagrams and flow-charts). When using Dia one of the questions that arises fairly regularly is: Is it possible to...
XML POST Proxy Script using PHP and libcurl
This is the simplest answer I could find for a client needing to POST an XML SOAP message to a server in another domain. Not sure on the security because the POST isn't validated so it just passes on whatever the client sends. libcurl has a lot of options
jQuery — It begins
So most day's I'm an infrastructure and apps guy. Which means a bit of: Cisco Windows ERP And a heap of general IT So then comes a long a project which requires coding... And because my ERP spits out and receives XML and Internet browsers are very friendly with the...
Resolve Relative to Absolute Paths with readlink
Just wanted to resolve a relative file path so that I can pass it as an absolute path to a program. #!/bin/sh QCAD_DIR=/opt/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86 ABS_PATH=$(readlink -f "$1") cd $QCAD_DIR && ./qcad $ABS_PATH Credits: Andy
Cisco 877 Continual Reload
I used Cisco's SDM to configure the stateful firewall component on a Cisco 877 but I let it add all the automatic Instant Messenger rules. That's when things started going wrong. The Cisco crashed and reloaded... probably 10 times a day. Deleting the IM stateful...
Shock! Horror! Shock! No wait I said that already — Youtube Unavailable
OK so it happens so rarely that I had to post about it. On Wed 14 Jul 2010 06:38:24 PM AEST I got this when attempting to put on some tunes to shower by: