Using yum to manage installing, upgrading or removing packages in Linux is a great little tool. Sometimes when running a yum transaction you may get a warning that you need to run “yum-complete-transaction” as you have pending or incomplete transactions. Simply running yum-complete-transaction will not do the trick if you […]
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A disgruntled customer has hacked in to the Twitter account of Paypal UK this evening. The Twitter account has now been suspended after anti paypal tweets were made.
Sometimes you may want to access more than one PC or Server via RDP through your firewall. This can be a problem if you only have one external IP address. One thing you can do to get round this is to change the listening port on the target PC. This […]
The other day one of my Server 2008’s failed to boot. The error on screen was winload.exe was missing or corrupt. After booting with the Server 2008 CD, entering “Repair my computer” and then launching the command prompt. I typed the following commands “bootrec /rebuildbcd” “bootrec /fixmbr” Once the commands […]
This needs to be edited and entered in the Exchange Shell, do so at your own risk – I will not be held liable for anything that happens. New-ExchangeCertificate -FriendlyName “SelfSigned Cert” -SubjectName “cn=mail.yourdomain.com” -DomainName your-Server,your-Server.yourlocaldomain.local,mail.yourdomainr.com -PrivateKeyExportable $True I have used this on Server 2008 and Exchange 2007
If you ever loose the “Unread Mail” folder in Outlook a quick way of getting it back is to press “CTRL + Shift + P” this will bring up the following; Click “OK” and you will have just created a search folder that looks for any unread emails in Outlook. You could […]
From time to time the maillog in mysql grows to big and eats up all the space on my mail filter, the end result it stops processing mail 🙁 The problem becomes worse if you have no space left to try and repair the MySQL file, so make sure you […]
Sometimes I have the need to send an email with an attachment directly from the console, to do this I use a small email client called “mutt” it can be installed in Centos using;
I often am faced with deleteing mails from MAILER-DAEMON that are going to non existant domains in my Postfix queue. Rather than manually deleting each email by hand, I now use a little script that does the job for me. All I do now is type in “delmd” without the […]
Acclaimed handset manufacturer HTC’s new HTC Desire HD and Desire Z smartphones boast of their respective striking features that enable them to stand apart from others. The HTC Desire HD comes equipped with 4.3-inch touchscreen, an 8-megapixel photo snapper with dual-LED flash and 720p video, a 1230 mAh battery and […]
High street retailer unveils Google Android-based tablet that costs just £180. Next – better known for its clothing and home furnishings range – has started selling an own-brand tablet computer running the Google Android operating system.
At last! I finally got the upgrade from 1.15.61.10 to 1.22.61.1 on my HTC Desire. That meant that I would be able to upgrade to Android 2.2 aka Froyo. Both upgrades went very smoothly and completed in about 30 mins. The first upgrade was around 20Mb in size and the […]
Yet another day has passed and still no upgrade for my HTC Desire on Orange to Android 2.2. When cheking this morning, I got the normal “Your phone is up to date There are no updates available for your phone” Its now been over a week that Orange said that […]
Some of the most popular apps written for Google’s Android phones do not tell users what data they are gathering, says a study by US researchers. Half of 30 applications studied share location information and unique identifiers with advertisers.