Author Archives: admin

We have an old (from 2005!) ReadyNAS1000 I wanted to be able to ssh to it, so I tried installing the SSH add-on. At first I chose the wrong version, then I found I need the ‘sparc’ version. It installed … Continue reading →

Ever since a few days ago, my tabs keep turning into windows when I barely even touch them. I searched around on google, and apparently i am not alone! At least it’s not (yet?) happening on other computers around here.

remember a long time ago when cell phone numbers stayed with the company that issued them; to switch carriers you had to change your phone number, and inform everyone you know, what a pita! Now ip addresses are still like … Continue reading →

Solved! I saw this new (for me) problem today Waiting for 3ware Controller to Initialize… There is no response from the firmware Please hit a key to continue. The firmware is incompatible with BIOS. The machine is a 2.2 TB … Continue reading →

We run MySQL replication through stunnel. After rebooting the slaves, sometimes replication won’t start and with SHOW SLAVE STATUS we see Slave_IO_Running = No. To fix this, I found that I can simply stop and start stunnel and then replication … Continue reading →

Some PCI compliance tests may fail due to “TRACE” being allowed on the web server. To test whether your web server allows TRACE, do this: telnet 127.0.0.1 80 TRACE / HTTP/1.0 Host: www.whatever.com [CR] ( blank line with carriage return … Continue reading →

I wanted to upgrade to the latest OpenSSL (1.0.1c) but after doing so, httpd would not install correctly and bombed with the error “configure: error: … Error, SSL/TLS libraries were missing or unusable” I was able to correct this by … Continue reading →

I’m trying to connect my virtual to my local computer’s CD ROM but I keep seeing the error: Could not open the client device “D:” It is being used by another virtual machine or some other program Even though I … Continue reading →

I wanted to put git on one of my CentOS 5.5 servers. Following the links to download the source led to a web page advising to install with yum. But when I tried, # yum install git Loaded plugins: fastestmirror … Continue reading →

I’m trying to set up SNMP communities on my VM Hosts, so I downloaded and installed the vma (vSphere Management Assistant), and from there I added the hosts as targets. When I try to set up the community with “vicfg-snmp … Continue reading →