Author: halfgaar

http://www.halfgaar.net/

Halfgaar is Wiebe. Wiebe is a contributing author on this weblog. He also has a lot of stuff (such as long, in-depth articles) on his personal website.

Wiebe works at YTEC, where he is a senior developer of customer-specific tailor-made software (“klantspecifieke maatwerk software“) for clients in a few select markets: wholesale, printing and healthcare.

Fixing hanging and slow Windows Update on Windows 7

Windows 7 update service is slow to begin with, but trying it on a computer that has been off for a while is damn near impossible. This is a known issue, apparently. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on November 17, 2016, at 21:11 | Comments closed

My Front suspension

On my Multi Cycle bike, I have a SR Suntour CR9, serial number TF00478709, Series: CR, Year: 2015, Name: CR 9V-D-P-LO 700C TS 300/0, from 2015. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on July 09, 2016, at 13:07 | Comments closed

Using ‘Require expr’ in Apache: Cannot parse expression in require line: syntax error, unexpected $end

We found that if you do what the Apache documentation says and put quotes around the expr: Require user victron Require expr "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#^/.well-known/acme-challenge/.*#" Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on July 08, 2016, at 10:07 | 1 comment

More recent posts on YTEC blog

As Bigsmoke indicated, we had some issues with google not finding content. For the same reason, I would like to share my insight into some stuff I write about: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on June 28, 2016, at 09:06 | 1 comment

Sending mail from a NATed host with Postfix

When sending mail from a host behind NAT, you will run into trouble when the "From" says "root@host.localdomain", because receiving servers will refuse that domain. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on June 03, 2016, at 11:06 | Comments closed

Download dmcrypt (cryptsetup) encryption key from remote server and auto mount

One of the inconveniences of encryption is the need to open the encrypted volume by hand when the computer/server boots. Luckily, you can easily automate that securely. You need a machine that will act as a key server, whether that's a Raspberry Pi or some VPS you hire. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on May 22, 2016, at 20:05 | Comments closed

Preventing degraded array on every boot

I had a server that booted with a degraded array every time, because there was a USB drive attached to it, that messed up the auto detection. I solved it by putting this in mdadm.conf: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on April 27, 2016, at 09:04 | 1 comment

Decreasing shutdown time of MySQL with large transaction log file

If you need/have a large transaction log file, a shut down can take a while. This post lists how you can force a flush before you do so, decreasing shut down time. Read More »
By halfgaar, 7 years ago, on July 15, 2014, at 17:07 | 1 comment

Excellent article about LC resonance resulting from turn-on transients

This article gives a good explation of LC resonances caused by turn-on transients. Read More »
By halfgaar, 7 years ago, on April 26, 2014, at 17:04 | Comments closed

Better nagios SMS and E-mail messages

Just for my references. I made changes to it before, but I now added the comments to them (for custom notifications and acknowledgements): Read More »
By halfgaar, 7 years ago, on April 04, 2014, at 16:04 | Comments closed