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Apple iPhone Day Two
February 22, 2009 – 5:37 am | No Comment

I have had the iPhone for one day. I have activated the iPhone, upgraded it to version 2.2, set up my email, calendar and contacts and loaded it with my favorite podcasts. Next on my agenda is to “jailbreak” the iPhone. By doing this I will: 1. Gain access to an even larger body of [...]

Apple iPhone Day One
February 22, 2009 – 5:34 am | No Comment

So it is day one of my Apple iPhone adventure. Next I opened the back of my HTC 8525 and removed the battery, exposing the AT&T sim card. I then removed the sim card from my current phone and inserted it into the iPhone. Then I plugged the iPhone into my laptop using the USB [...]

Never enough time to tinker at home
February 21, 2009 – 5:59 pm | 3 Comments

I’ve been so busy with work I haven’t had time to take care of my network and system infrastructure at home. Anyone in this business knows that our setup at home is at least as good and at least as complex as our setup at work. Generally this is a source of frustration for our [...]

CentOS 5 PHP 5 Build Issues
September 27, 2008 – 10:59 am | No Comment

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139324 ln -sf /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3.3 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3.1 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so ln -sf /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 /usr/lib/libcom_err.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libm.so /usr/lib/libm.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libssl.so /usr/lib/libssl.so ln -sf /usr/lib64/libidn.so.11 /usr/lib/libidn.so

Openfire SSL instructions
February 23, 2008 – 6:43 pm | No Comment

The instructions for openfire ssl are incomplete. I had my certificate signed by a CA and following the instructions in the openfire ssl guide, I had difficulty. After you follow the steps down to the part about the truststore, you need to follow these instructions, replacing the filename, alias and password with your own. Once [...]

Jive Software Clearspace LDAP Administrative Login
December 19, 2007 – 3:44 pm | No Comment

Problem on the last page of setup getting the system to accept the admin login. This worked for me… I used these instructions to change from the default authentication method to LDAP. It worked fine except I could no longer login to the admin interface using the "admin" user. The only way I could get [...]

How to set up ssh login with no password
August 28, 2007 – 10:09 am | No Comment

How to do it First log in on A as user a and generate a pair of authentication keys. Do not enter a passphrase: a@A:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/a/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory '/home/a/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: [...]

pam login authorization using both local and winbind
July 30, 2007 – 10:09 am | No Comment

I have a situation where I need the linux server to accept either local password or active directory password. Below is the relevant code from /etc/pam.d/system-auth. The commented out line was how the file was setup before and the line below it shows how it should be setup to allow this functionality. All other setup [...]