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Wordpress

November 22nd, 2009 Comments off

It had to come sooner or later. Today I retired my self-written blog sofware in favour of Wordpress.

I  wrote the original software by hand directly in PHP/CSS in haste during my last course holidays, it was never properly finished and was probably filled with SQL holes (:o!)

Yeah, so anyway, Wordpress now.

Categories: IT

Blackberry Storm tethered on Vodafone

January 21st, 2009 Comments off

Recently I purchased the Blackberry Storm which is exclusive to Vodafone here in Australia.

I have had some problems finding the initialisation commands for Vodafone in Australia.

Here is the process.

Installing the Blackberry Storm will install 3 modems:
- Standard 33600 bps Modem
- Standard 33600 bps Modem #2
- Standard Modem

Leave the first two alone, but under the standard modem in the advanced properties, enter

+cgdcont=,,"vfinternet.au"

Next create a new manual internet connection and when it asks for a password enter *99# and do not enter any username or password

Open up the Blackberry Desktop Manager, connect to the new connection and away you go :)

Categories: IT

RHCT

December 11th, 2007 Comments off

Well as of Friday 7th December I am now RHCT certified (Red Hat Certified Technician)
I managed to pass with 100% which was awesome, now bring on the RHCE!

Categories: IT

RAID5 Rebuild Time

July 11th, 2007 Comments off

Over the course of about 2 weeks my raid5 system broke twice requiring new disks and a rebuild.
The controller was a Highpoint RocketRaid 1640 SATA with 4x Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATAII drives.

Rebuild time was as follows:
Build 1:
raid 5 rebuild started approx 4:25PM
5:27PM – 21%
6:24PM – 40%
7:04PM – 53%
7:28PM – 61%
8:35PM – 82%
9:25PM – 99%
9:27PM – 100%

Build 2:
raid5 rebuild started 11:51AM
2:13PM – 47%
2:51PM – 58%
3:44PM – 76%
4:25PM – 90%
4:55PM – 100%
I couldn’t find any reliable information on an estimated rebuild time, so theres my experience.

Categories: IT

Billion Routers not deleting virtual servers with # in name

July 10th, 2007 Comments off

Currently i have a Billion BiPAC 7402GL ADSL2+ modem/router and i set up a few virtual servers with # symbols in their name.

When deleting or editing the virtual server it does not pass the # symbol to the page, so when deleting or editing the object the following error occurs:
webserver:Couldn’t find ‘ImFireWall.ImFwInterfaces.ipwan.ImFwNATresvMaps.Art HTTPD ‘ as a local symbol or object instance

My virtual server was named Art HTTPD #1, and you can see in the error message it didnt pass the #1 at all.

To fix this you must delete occurrences of virtual servers with # in the name, and then recreate them. I modified the source of the delete page to correct it.

http://www.ecks90.com/files/billiondelvs.txt

Just change the NAMEOFYOURVS to whatever your virtual server, rename .txt to .html and open the page and it will delete the object

Categories: IT