Fixing a MacMini that only works by resetting PRAM. My Mac Mini Late 2014 broke the other day. It was not great timing. The strange thing was if I cleared the PRAM the Mini worked normally. I had many conversations with Apple
DNS Setting up DNSSEC on Gandi Live DNS Learn what DNSSEC is and how to make the most of it using Gandi Domain Services.
Sophos for Linux 9 E-mail Alert Configuration This guide show you how to configure e-mail alerting on Sophos for Linux 9
Ubuntu Firewall - Filter by ASN I use Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW). Its a friendly version of iptables for people with simple needs. Additional information here. I configure SSH to use keys only (no password authentication) however I also like
vmware VMWARE Windows 98 Sound Fix This guide shows you how to fix the sound card blue screen issue experienced when using VMWARE Fusion with Windows 98 as a guest.
CISSP Exam Tips I recently passed my CISSP exam. As a lot of people will tell you it is a hard exam. A few people have shared their tips on preparing for the exam. As everyone
linode Ubuntu Live Patch Linode Quick Tip Canonical, the commerical arm behind Ubuntu have made the Livepatch Service a few years ago. This allows you to live patch your kernal without rebooting. It works on Linode however it needs some
Microsoft Recover Microsoft Office Installer when you purchased it through HUP How to get your Office installer back. Covers Office 2010 and above when you bought genuine Microsoft Office through the home use program.
DNS Using PowerDNS with Gandi Live DNS to enhance resilience Recently I wrote about using Gandi LiveDNS. Another feature available is to use your own DNS server to slave Gandi's DNS for extra resilience. This guide explains how to do it. Using PowerDNS
Joining the NTP Pool This morning I setup a NTP server and added it to the UK pool. While as the graph shows it has been rising... There are still relatively few IPv6 ntp servers as below
vmware Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 with VMWARE ESXI 6.5 This guide goes throguh how to setup Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 with VMWARE ESXI 6.5
Quick Tip Quick tip - Apticron - Handy hints and tips Apticron is a great tool, it will automatically e-mail you an alert if you have outstanding packages that need upgrading on a *nix systems. Some useful tips to customise it are shown below.
Outlook.com Premium - Bring your own domain don't pay $10 Outlook.com Premium is Windows Live Domains in new clothes with a bit of modernisation. Its not a criticism mind, its a great service for consumers who wish to have a decent e-mail
Quick Tip Quick Tip: Firefox stuck in a update loop on MacOS I had a issue where I could not get FireFox to update The solution is to delete the update folder here: /Users//Library/Caches/Mozilla/
Reset a forgotten OS X Password If you forget a password in OS X there is an easy way to reset it. Restart into Recovery mode by turning the Mac off, wait for the apple chime. Then hold CMD
DNS DNSSEC and PowerDNS I've been running PowerDNS for a couple of months now including DNSSEC. Here is how I set it up and how to avoid the pitfalls I fell into. This guide assumes you already
DNS CAA Records Put simply Certification Authority Authorization or CAA is a speical type of DNS records that allows you to inform a certification authority if they are allowed to issue certificates for a domain (or
Secondry DNS with Hurricane Electric Hurricane Electric based in the US provide a number of services to the internet. They are probably best known for Tunnel Broker however they also offer DNS hosting services. They do both primary
Setting up SSHFP records SSHFP Records are DNS records that allow you to publish fingerprints of your servers so they can be verified using DNS lookups when you connect to them. This can be done in a
Picking a CPanel Provider - some considerations CPanel is a very popular web hosting control panel. It allows you to manage a linxu, apachem PHP and MySQL server stack effortlessly and allows web hosting providers to offer affordable web and
MySQL MySQL- Get Database size A quick tip on getting the size of all MySQL databases: SELECT table_schema "Database Name", Round(Sum(data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024, 1) "DB Size in MB"
Secure WebDav in Windows 7 When adding webdav in Windows 7 it may feel completely alien. The correct syntax if mapping using This PC (formally called My Computer) is: \\yourserver.com@ssl\foldername In Windows 10 the URL
Longview with Varnish Linode's Longview service gives you a great insight into how welll your server is running. The standard automatic install failes when trying to set Nginx monitoring up if you have Varnish or something
Moved from Digital Ocean to Linode A couple of days ago I moved from Digitial Ocean to Lindoe. I did a disk clone. While setup was fairly smooth a couple of gremelins crept in. This should now be fixed
YouView Control on Bose Solo 5 Sound Bar I recently got a sound bar for Christmas. Looking online it looks like you can't programme the BT YouView box with the Bose universal remote. You can control it if you use the
