About Us
HOL is more than a house full of cables - it is a state of mind. Hah! well, not really. But it is more than just a house full of cables at any rate - it's got ethernet over power too!
Anyway, I mainly use this site to post up reminders of how I did useful things with PHP, Linux, HTML & CSS, and sometimes even good ol windows. I figure that if I keep on forgetting these things, someone else is bound to also find these postings useful.
It's also here for me to test out various web development concepts, and to check out the power of SilverStripe.
May the packets be with you
Al
Founder (;
The House of LAN
Latest blogs
A complaint to the EQC
Sorry, this isn't tech related. But I need it out there. I'm REALLY pissed off with the EQC at the moment. This is an organisation that up to last year we paid our levvies to, in the understanding they would be there for us when the worst happend. And then the worst happened.
File permissions on Samba shares
Here's the situation. We have a server with a bunch of shares on it, that a bunch of different people access. Each share allows a different group access, and users can be in more than one group.
Domain Aliases in Zimbra
I always forget how to set this up so I'll post here for my memory aid. If you need Zimbra to deliver all mail addressed to @foobar.com to the relevant account @foo.com -