Blogs of the House of LAN
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 -
Managing Silverstripe Upgrades In Your SVN Projects
Let's face it: FTP is for the web developers of the '90's; real developers use SVN (or some other source control software).
Reset all passwords in an Active Directory OU
Sometimes we need to reset everyone's password on the network - for instance if we are doing a server/network migration and we need to access everyones accounts. With this little cmd snippet you can easily tweak it to reset everyone in a particular OU's password:
Reset Administrator Password on SBS 2008
So you've managed to loose your admin password for your SBS Server 2008 eh? Well in my case, a faulty keyboard caused an incorrect password to be set. Whatever the reason you need to reset the password, I'll assume you're doing this for Good, and not Evil.
HOL changes!
HOL has undergone a migration to the fantastic New Zealand-based open-source cms that is SilverStripe! It was a bit of an effort, but it could have been a lot harder.
HOL gets CAPTCHA'd
My god, I checked my moderation queue for blog comments and I had nearly 1000 spam comments waiting for me! Nothing that a good DELETE FROM in the database can't fix, but there might have been some real comments hidden in there! (I did find a few, and exluded them from the deletion. If I missed you I'm sorry and I don't hate you).
Resolve .local domains
Many Linux distros come pre-configured with zeroconf, which lets machines resolve each other in a peer-to-peer manner. This is fine, except they chose the .local domain, which will conflict with any .local domain you may have set up in DNS.
Kubuntu Intrepid
So, the latest and greatest version of the greatest Distro ever is out (haha flamebait :P), and I thought it would be good to document how my install went, so others might be able to get their system up and running nicely. But first: