This has been a fun problem that I've seen come up on and off for quite a while. After encountering it once again today. I thought I would share the fix. So first, the errors. When attempting to log into the domain with a domain account you will recieve a Read more…
What an error huh? So one night some time ago (November 30th, 2010) I was in the process of doing some physical to virtual system migrations and ran into this odd error: "File *.vmdk is larger than the maximum size supported by the datastore." I validated that there was enough Read more…
So, you've run into a problem with vnStat. Yeah. Me too, after an unexpected reboot of a server the vnStat database became corrupt and was no longer usable. It's a shame that I lost all my bandwidth history (yes, I know, you can use a cronjob to dump the stats Read more…
I recently had to set up a system to receive e-mail destined for a given domain… all of it… This seemed like a straight forward operation overall. Set up a server, configure it and then… hrm… and then what. How was I going to get all the e-mail to go Read more…
First, since I am a bit biased, I feel obligated to state that I truly loath GUIs on linux from the standpoint that I can do more with commandline both faster and more accurately than I can through any linux based GUI I've ever used. Yes the graphics can be Read more…
I have to say, this drive recovery was frighteningly successful for a frighteningly difficult problem. The Back Story So, it all started when my significant other powered on her laptop. She received the infamous and equally dreaded message "Cannot Find Operating System". After several reboots and reseating the drive it Read more…
Well this was proving to be quite the nightmare so I thought I'd post a quick note both for anyone looking and for myself to remember how to go about this. The problem: When attempting to flash the Dell Precision 470 bios from A05 to A07 I ran into problems. Read more…