Archive for the “Systems Administration” category

Rocket RAID 620 on CentOS 5.5 – Drivers don’t work.

09th Nov 2010Systems Administration, , , ,

I had some trouble with this controller getting the official drivers to install during a new server build. Error: “Error to extract driver” More »

HOWTO migrate a subversion repository to a new host

09th Jun 2010Software Development, Systems Administration, ,

I recently had to migrate a SVN repo to a new host aswell as moving it’s location on the server, this is how More »

iPhone SDK – Keyboard next button

328th Feb 2010iPhone Apps, Systems Administration, ,

One thing that has alluded me in my iPhone development is when entering details into text inputs, being able to hit “Next” in More »

Cleaning a Disk

028th Feb 2010Systems Administration,

To keep a hard drive healthy you should “use” it, by this I mean filling the disk with data and then cleaning up More »

Database Input Sanitisation

024th Feb 2010Systems Administration, ,

A fantastic geeky joke but does illustrate the important fact that none-geeks will always use your interfaces, if you don’t bulletproof it you More »

Ping……….. PONG!!!

017th Feb 2010Darts, Life, Systems Administration, , , ,

I know recently I’ve been really slow to response to my Blog comments, messages on Facebook and not updating Twitter, this isn’t because More »

Teaching Spam Assassin

016th Feb 2010Systems Administration, , ,

This was written about running Spamassassin, Exim on CentOS Linux As SPAM evolves the techniques used change over time, it is because of More »

Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

016th Feb 2010Systems Administration, , ,

Recently I have been receiving email bounces suggesting that I’ve been attempting to send people emails as it’s being signed with one of More »

Remove ^M in Vim

016th Feb 2010Systems Administration, ,

Often people upload plain text files to one of the sites that I work with and when I edit it through Vim it’s More »

PoundHost – BlueSquare Adding an IP address and IP’s to VMWare virtual machines

316th Feb 2010Systems Administration, ,

Add a virtual IP address to the host server. This is done on the loopback rather than eth0:0. 3.3.3.3 = This is the More »