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Support of old PATA raid controller
I have a "brother in arms" in the tech community who asked if I could help him out w/ Samba on a Dell 600SC server that he'd acquired. He had loaded RH ES3 on it and had successfully installed Samba, but it wouldn't receive connections. I fought with it for a while and got it to accept connections from itself with the smbclient \\localhost\samba_dir and authenticated but is as far as it would go.
Reverse Proxy
I had a response to a question I had posted on www.linuxquestions.com a long time ago and realized I'd blown away the content the person was asking about. To that end, I've reproduced the content.
The instructions for setting up the installation is here.
The config file for the site is here.
Newspaper clippings, who needs 'em? Google does
Found an article on online that was pretty interesting.
The search giant, Google, is digitizing old news paper articles and making them available here.
Saw a comment where one fellow suggested that this could let some skeletons out of the closet by breathing life into the past again, he may have a point. All the more reason to have a sober mind, but youthful indiscretions are something I think almost everyone shares.
IDE - Komodo Edit
If you follow the blog you'll see I've been dabbling in PHP. In doing so I've been on a quest to find the perfect editor for this new endeavor and I may have found it in Komodo Edit . Also, in high contention w/ Komdo Edit is Eclipse. Both open source, both customizable both very nice.
Putty and number lock
If you've ever used Putty you've probably run into the problem where you numlock doesnt product the expected results as it does while using it outside of Putty. Seems there are some special characters associated with the number pad and Putty has a driver/handler or something to that affect that basically causes problems for the numpad and *nix connections.
My supporting of support thru PHP
My last post was my first attempts at working on a web front end for a Postfix Server. It will/should allow specific users access to the page and add a device to the approved senders list. Another way to describe it would be to say users can "whitelist" devices so they can send email throughout the organization and else where.
PHP Include function
I'm building a web front end for a postfix server that will allow specific users to add an IP address to the allowed relay list. The problem I ran into is that I'm running the VERY lightweight page on the actual server itself and I wanted to wrap the Intranet site that the company is familiar with around my little contribution to the tech support effort.
Protect yourself, change your DNS.
Most users that I deal with have no clue as to what gets them to a website other than the name they type in. For probably 98% of whom I deal with, it's all that matters. But on the rare occasion where something is broken or they read an article that peaks their interest I'll have to delve into the shallows of what really makes the internet work. Simply, it's DNS, translation of the friendly name into computer readable numbers that takes you to websites.
