Oops - Bad DNS Update 2
Today I was migrating a few core services from one server to another as part of the new server build project. Basically, I need to wipe the 1st physical server and reload it with a new, different OS as part of this project. Before that can be accomplished, there are a number of services that I need to migrate to a new VM running on a different server.
xUbuntu 9.10, Adobe AIR, Random Rants 2
Last week, my main laptop died taking my main xUbuntu installation with it. Ok, it really didn’t take it, since I have backups and the hard disk was fine. Further, because I run it in a VirtualBox VM, picking it up and moving it to a different physical machine was fairly simple, once I had a machine ready for VirtualBox.
Anyway, I’ve spent the last week building a new machine, migrating Linux servers around, rebuilding a Windows7 Media Center machine, fighting with a bad power supply, poor connections in DVDs and network cables. Finally, everything is starting to work as expected. I was feeling lucky, so I decided to update the main xUbuntu desktop VM from 8.04 LTS to 9.10. Yes, I said update, not do a fresh install. BTW the 8.04 install was an upgrade from 6.06 originally.
xubuntu 8.04 —> 9.10
New Server Build - Part 2
So with all the equipment here, I began the server build. Refresh your memory for components by reading New Server Build – Part 1.
The Old Machine
Before beginning this build I booted the old machine; it was running FreeBSD previously. It had an Athlon 1800+XP CPU, 2GB DDR RAM and AGP graphics. It also had an S3-Virge PCI video card AND an SMC 1000base-tx GigE NIC. Both the NIC and video card were reused in the new server build.
The old machine also had (3) IDE devices – (1) DVD-RW and (2) WD 250GB disks. The motherboard only supports 1 IDE cable, so I’ve connected it to the DVD and 1 of the disks. At some point, I need to boot off USB or get/scrounge a SATA boot disk. I do have a spare 3.5" 1GB SATA, but that is used for weekly off site backups currently. I’ll probably try using a 2GB SDHC flash drive for boot since the host OS only runs the hypervisor.
Bad Parts
New Server Build - Part 1
I’ve needed to build a new server for about 6 months, but delayed spending the money as long as possible. I’ll be reusing many old components and have purchased the main new items listed below.
Server Purpose
Pondering File Transfer Speeds 1
I move files around my network alot. Most of the time, these transfers are between wired GigE connected systems and are limited by disk performance, not the network. It is good and fast. Multi-gigabyte files transfer in seconds.
However, there are some tools that only work on Windows and my only Windows machine is a WiFi (G) connected laptop. Yes, I can wire it into the GigE network and see huge transfer speeds only limited by the laptop disk drive, but that is usually not how I do it. Yes, I use WiFi for convenience.
Why is 1 tool 2x faster than others? Why?
32 Million Passwords - Most Bad
Passwords are boring. Knowing how to choose a good password has been covered here and elsewhere many, many times. Yet, most people still don’t choose good passwords.
Today, we’ll take a different view of passwords. What are bad passwords by looking at results from actual passwords used by real people on a web site with 32 million users. The source article.
Top 20 Passwords Used Ranked
How to Reset Adito Passwords 3
The Adito administrator has control over whether users may change their passwords or not. In some situations, an administrator may decide to prevent password changes, so the user may not see that option at all.
If you can’t locate the password reset in the web interface, contact your VPN administrator and ask whether it is possible to change the password with your level of Adito VPN access. Otherwise, the password reset function isn’t hidden.
This article was written based on search results from web search engines.
Solved: Clock Time Loss Under Windows7 and Vista 2
How to solve this
There are many ways to solve this issue. This is just the one I used based on my experience and expertise. I didn’t use this complex solution initially, it was only after all other solutions attempted failed, badly. My Windows Vista and Win7 computers were losing 2 minutes a day. After the first attempt to correct it with daily time sync, is was still losing about a minute, which was impacting some scheduled events. 1 minute off matters when someone else sets the start and end schedule.
Stolen Laptop, What Now?
I saw a headline about stolen laptops here and thought I’d mention my methods before reading the other article.
Before Stolen Laptop
The most important stuff happens before your laptop is stolen, but you need to do it. It isn’t automatic.
New VISA Credit Cash Back Scam Email
Well, I’ve arrived. Seems besides winning the European, Spanish, Hong Kong, Singapore, and world wide lotteries, I’ve also won 10% cash back from VISA every month. I just need to enroll by clicking on a web link. Sweet!
