Lately I’ve played with a fair few new things, I’ll be writing up some details on :
- VMWare Server 2.0.0 on Gentoo.
- My Distributed Hosting Control Panel setup.
- File Server building
- Woes with GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboards and Windows XP.
Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Quick Update
Monday, November 24th, 2008SyncML Errors
Monday, May 5th, 2008I’ve been having an issue with strangely “non” Nokia SyncML servers causing my mobile to stop contact syncing at 180 of 303 with “System Error”.
Using the Horde SyncML server I finally found out what was causing the error, it was one of the contacts thumbnails was malformed somehow.
After removing the contacts thumbnail it worked fine.
GRAGGH !
Anyway, the best process for determining which contact it is (sounds simple, but here it is) create the /tmp/sync folder for horde to write the debug info into, then load up the largest syncml_client* file after doing a test sync.
Scroll to the bottom and then just scroll up until you see the contact name in cleartext, I could make a smarter “use this strings/grep/tail one-liner” but I need to get back to studying.
B0rked Theme
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007It seems the theme for my web log is b0rked, I set it to a crappy default theme and I’ll fix it later when I wake up.
EDIT: Fixed, need to update Wordpress though.
SPF and the way of the Quick Fix
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007First off, I like that at least we’re trying something, SPF is a quick-fix for spam problems…. But it’s still a quick-fix not a good-fix.
I’ll jump right into the problem I’ve been having with SPF, mail forwarding. Most mail-forwarding doesn’t rewrite the envelope sender as it probably shouldn’t but since it doesn’t the SPF tests are done against the envelope senders domain and thus fail as coming from a “bad” server.
For those that prefer a real example, sending an email address from test@server-barn.net (my nameserver/etc domain) to one of my business emails redirects to my gmail (it’s easier that way), but gmail receives the message after redirection as coming from test@server-barn.net and sees it as a fail.
Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning test@server-barn.net does not designate 202.125.46.246 as permitted sender)
So gmail (doesn’t yet) but will reject this message, because I have setup SPF on server-barn.net
World of Warcraft and the downfall of society
Thursday, June 28th, 2007How many sonnets have not been written because someone was too busy trying to grind their rep for Lower City.
I’m about to cancel my WoW subscription, and I just realised how much time I spent playing. I haven’t played since the weekend and I found myself finally finishing some scripts I started months ago and spending time solving some little problems that have been bugging my on my home workstation.
So I wondered once I noticed how much I had done since giving up WoW, and that’s during the week when I barely get any time to play WoW, i’m starting to think that the world in general maybe hurting from the excessive obsession some people have for MMO’s. Technically any obsession can affect a persons direction, but this is very specific, so many people play WoW to the exclusion of all else, I only reinstalled Steam last night after I realised my desktop only had WoW and Second Life installed.
I guess I’ll spread the word, get people out of Azeroth and into at least some form of Real Life(TM)
Digital Consumer Enablement
Friday, May 11th, 2007I’m refering to this article on the consumerist.
I can’t believe the marketing speak, I truly hope people aren’t stupid enough to fall for that.
I’ll quote a friend here since this made most of us laugh.
<> I’m not going to call it piracy anymore. I prefer Consumer Choice Enablement.
LG 37LC2D – LCD TV Problems – Follow Up
Monday, March 19th, 2007I am completely floored.
The LG Support system is great. I used their website and called the local support representatives (who wasn’t that good, they have a “Straight to voicemail”, probably from all the calls) who prompted me to “if your LG stb, lcd or plasma has locked while watching channel 9. Call 1800 643 156″.
Upon calling the 1800 number I got a “if your LG device has been locking up while watching channel 9 over the weekend press 1″, then a set of instructions on how to get around it and a “we are currently working on this with the station”.
I know it’s just a phone message, but the fact they have jumped on the issue, setup automated responses so I don’t have to wait in a queue just to get an operator who has answered the same question all day state “known issue, go away”.
Kudos to LG on that one.
UPDATE: LG’s phones have switched to AH service, so they don’t have the message anymore, I recorded the local representatives message here (Local LG Support Representative).
UPDATE2: Fixed Link
New Website – Menu Planet
Monday, March 19th, 2007I started a new website, whenever i’m at work and we want to order some food in we can never find the menu’s
Someone is always hoarding them, and we can never find them.
So I proposed we start putting them somewhere online, so we can access them whenever we need them.
This has spawned “Menu Pla.net“
MailEnable Exploit – Rootkitting Servers
Sunday, February 25th, 2007From: Oz Servers Pty Ltd
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:42 PM
Subject: Critical Security Vulnerability :: Mail Enable
MailEnable has issued a critical alert for a security vulnerability that may affect Plesk for Windows customers. If you are using MailEnable, it is recommended that you download and install Hotfixes ME-10026 and ME-10027 from MailEnable’s Hotfix download page: http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/default.asp
Please patch immediately, several servers have been compromised through this vulnerability.
If you have problems with the installation or if you have further questions, please visit MailEnable’s technical support page: http://www.mailenable.com/support.asp
Please note that this security vulnerability only applies to Plesk for Windows customers that are using MailEnable. All other Plesk for Windows users are unaffected.
If you are running MailEnable without Plesk, this critical alert applies too.
More Information:
http://forums.swsoft.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40792
Plesk Thread
http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?threadid=41317&perpage=15
Best Regards,
Oz Servers Technical Support
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Oz Servers Pty Ltd
Phone: 1300 13 89 69
Web: http://www.ozservers.com.au
Icannt.org, Kooby and Project Backrub
Sunday, December 24th, 2006Icannt is having their first birthday, I just built a server destined for their use, so I thought it might be a good idea to mention that here, incase someone actually follows the link from the icannt site.
FYI, Project Backrub was originally the name for what Google became. So the premise of linking back to someone who links to you is why I put this here.