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Openswan random failures

I have an annoying problem with my Openswan VPN server. When I connect from a Windows XP machine, from that point on, I can only connect with that machine (or perhaps other Windows XP machines as well). On the other hand, when I connect with a Windows 7 machine first, connecting from Windows XP is no longer possible. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on December 01, 2013, at 19:12 | Comments closed

Turkey cooking time

As a note to self for next year: We just had a 8 kg turkey for our Thanksgiving meal. Recipes on the internet said it needed 7 to 8 hours of cooking. However, we took it out after 5.5 hours, and it was even somewhat overcooked. It probably needed about 4.5-5 hours. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on November 24, 2013, at 17:11 | Comments closed

Cursor definition and looping with MS SQL

In MSSQL, I needed to loop over a bunch of orders and execute a stored procedure, except in one case. This does that: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on September 30, 2013, at 14:09 | 2 comments

Upgrading PowerDNS from Debian Squeeze to Wheezy

As I mentioned here, I had to manually create a database schema when I installed PowerDNS on Debian Squeeze. Later versions apparently create one themselve. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on September 24, 2013, at 12:09 | Comments closed

Broken disk went undetected, but did corrupt data

I had a disk in one of my servers that was starting to give ATA errors in the syslog. Contrary to what you might think, ATA errors are fairly common, so I didn't immediately sound the alarm. However, this disk turned out to be corrupting data. During upgrading Debian 6 to 7, the file system became read-only. Rebooting gave me a recovery shell and e2fsck gave me millions of questions. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on September 06, 2013, at 15:09 | Comments closed

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.) Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 years ago, on August 05, 2013, at 15:08 | 1 comment

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 Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on July 25, 2013, at 12:07 | Comments closed

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 »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on July 03, 2013, at 15:07 | Comments closed

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. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on July 03, 2013, at 14:07 | Comments closed

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 »
By halfgaar, 6 years ago, on July 01, 2013, at 21:07 | Comments closed