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Category: Technology
Readline shortcuts: Ctrl-s and XOFF
And another contribution to my list of Readline keyboard shortcuts. This time it's a note by João Matos, pointing me to problems with the Ctrl-s shortcut. (It acts as a flow control character that pauses transmission on some terminals.)
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Blackberry links
Here are some blackberry links for me.
Blackberry support forums
Blackberry incident support
Software Download for BlackBerry Enterprise Server & BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express
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Areca RAID system password
I needed to configure an Areca RAID array to find out it was password protected. I could unlock it with: MNO974315743924. Read More »
3Ware 9650 SE drive compatibility list
Especially the addendum to the 3Ware 9650 SE RAID controller compatibility list is hard to find, so I'm making them easily available.
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FreeIPA: Active Directory for Linux?
Note to self: explore FreeIPA. Someone on Serverfault suggested it and said it was what AD is for Windows. If it is, it would relieve me of LDAP hell. Too long for this blog post, but I spent about a week (or more) full-time to get an LDAP setup working, with all security measures in place. It involved diving into source code, discovering and reporting Ubuntu documentation bugs, etc. An experience I don't care to repeat. Read More »
Blackberry Enterprise Server issues
I've had some issues with my Blackberry Enterprise Server. Some users say their mail is not synced. Others are reporting calendars being messed up. Just jotting down some memory aids.
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Checking SMART status on a 3Ware controller with smartctl
A RAID controller hides the physical disks from the operating system, so it's harder to query the SMART data. Luckily, smartctl has a way to do it:
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Adding foreign key constraints to PowerDNS default schema
In an earlier post I made, I described how to manually create the SQL schema, because it didn't itself. When I installed Power DNS 3.1-4 on a Raspberry Pi, I noticed it had created the scheme itself this time. However, it did not make the foreign key constraints. This is dumb. I regularly need to remove domains from the DB and I don't want stale or incorrect references as a result.
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Privacy? Can you pay with that?
Dutch articles, but there are English sources in it:
- NSA en FBI hebben directe toegang tot servers grote techbedrijven (NSA en FBI have direct access to servers big tech companies).
- Verizon geeft dagelijks telefoniegegevens door aan NSA (Verizon passes phone metadata to NSA on daily basis).
Xen VM: Frag is bigger than frame
Our Xen VM's crashed at some point. This had to do with network traffic, apparently. My source link is dead. Only posting the workaround:
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