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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Google Apps – Annoyances
I shifted my email for jamesmcdonald.id.au to Google Apps. However I have found an annoying behaviour for Gmail. Join an email list (I'm on [email protected]) with your Google hosted email domain. Send an email to the list. The traditional behaviour should be...
Sendmail from the command line
echo -e To: 'The Persons Name ' \\n\\n Body of mail \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F "From Name" \ -f [email protected] -t [email protected] Where -e says I want to interpret \\n as a newline. -F is the from description -f is the from address -t is the to address Example:...
Linux /tmp size for DVD burning
I was just trying to burn the Fedora 11 Preview DVD in XUbuntu and the default burning application logically uses /tmp as the location for temporary image files. However my /tmp only had about 2.9 GB free space The DVD is 3.8G and so the DVD burn failed due to lack of...
KDE4
So I have haunted the linux-users mailing list for about um (1999-2009) 10 years. And the discussion turned to KDE4 and well frankly there wasn't many people saying it 'completes me'. Quite the opposite. So seeing I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 I though I would install...
Exchange fails to deliver to a Single Mailbox
Problem: I had a user that wasn't getting any internal / external emails. There was nothing in the logs and nothing to indicate why the Local Delivery queue was stalled for all emails that had them as a recipient. Troubleshooting: I Opened the Exchange System Manager...
svn working copy inside ecryptfs file name gotcha
So encrypting your stuff is wise from a security standpoint. Yes? Here is a little problem I ran into when I copied my svn working copy into an ecryptfs directory. The actual copy operation gave an error message about "file name too long" which I ignored. But then I...
Ubuntu – PuTTY GTK2 Package
I wrote some stuff on compiling PuTTY with GTK2. Here is a deb for Ubuntu (I compiled it on 8.04 and have tried it on 9.04) putty_20090326-1_i386 md5sum: 2f0926105d949dcb7fc7ce0c818b2088 I think I did it with checkinstall and if it's broken you get to keep both peices...
Ubuntu 9.04 – How to map the Windows + E keys to open Nautilus
Goto System ==> Preferences ==> Keyboard ==> Layouts ==> Layout Options Set Alt/Win Key Behaviour as show in next graphic Goto System ==> Preferences ==> Keyboard Shortcuts ==> Desktop ==> Home Folder and set the Windows + E combo (it will appear as Mod4+E)
How long should a dcpromo demotion take?
I have a SBS2003 Domain Controller on one site. Across a 512kbps link I have another Windows 2003 DC. About 40 User Accounts About 40 Domain Groups I started the demotion at 5:10AM and it's 5:26AM and it's finished so... 16minutes.
