Congrats to the NConf crew for reaching the 1.3.0 milestone! Two years in the making, but I’m excited to see the project continuing to move forward. It’s been over a year since I originally installed and configured Nagios and NConf 1.2.6 on my Lucid Lynx server. In the meantime, I’ve upgraded the hardware and moved [...]
I upgraded a forum to vBulletin 4.1.7 last night. Pretty straightforward stuff, only the mobile style that they half-introduced back in 4.1.2 or somewhere along the lines has been a little glitchy. 4.1.6 reintroduced the mobile style, but I blinked and 4.1.7 was released. I ended up deleting the mobile style and reimporting it from [...]
tl;dr MyFax Support sucks. Getting ‘Mydll_NT: Error in function: dAddPortMonitor, Error code: 126.’ installing the Print-to-Fax Assistant? Run msiexec /i myfaxassistantsetup.msi /q and install in silent mode. Dear j2 Global Communications/Protus/MyFax: Please remind your company to care about their software and the people that use it. In particular, you need to provide support for the [...]
I found myself needing to flash a BIOS today, which required a DOS or Windows 98 bootable floppy disk. Forget that. Let’s use a USB drive instead! Googling around returned methods that seemed way too involved for what I was trying to do. Here’s the three commands I ended up using: wget http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDOEM.144.gz gunzip FDOEM.144.gz [...]
So you you want the powerful Perl-based rename utility that comes with many Linux and *BSD distributions, but sadly not on Apple’s mighty OS X? Well so did I. (Go away you fanboys of all types. I hear not your rants about which operating system is for the win) Thinking about it for a moment, [...]
SoX is, by their own definition, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation. And no doubt it’s full of fun with slicing and dicing and playback and recording and filtering and effects capabilities. But SoX is a command line tool, which means obscure syntax and parameters in order to get things done. I’ve been trying [...]
I’m switching from DSL to cable internet. It’s not so much that I prefer cable internet (in fact, I like the ease of the home DSL install) but our house is in the middle of town and conveniently too far from the central offices on either side of town. It’s only like a 2 block [...]
No time for introductions. I spent way too much time today trying for get Windows Update to work on a laptop. When the “Searching for updates” screen would come on, sometimes the progress bar would be empty, other times it would run and run until it failed. I tried CCleaner and reinstalled the Windows Update [...]