SirSpanky.com - The Secret Diary of James Pearce Aged 20-Something

Useful Exim tidbit:

$ exim -v -odf someone@somehost
This is a test message.
.

The period (.) terminates the message, and it will print verbose log information to the stdout.

More Fun On MSN With Moonstruck

(21:31:49) Shimmering Moon: my pc
(21:31:51) Shimmering Moon: i reset it
(21:31:56) Shimmering Moon: and now when i boot it up
(21:31:57) Shimmering Moon: it says
(21:32:10) Spanky: ntldr
(21:32:37) Shimmering Moon: non system disk or disk error
(21:32:44) Shimmering Moon: REPLACE and press any key when ready
(21:32:46) Shimmering Moon: wat do i do?
(21:32:48) Spanky: Same diff
(21:32:48) Shimmering Moon: i hit any key
(21:32:57) Spanky: You have a CD or floppy in it?
(21:32:57) Shimmering Moon: and it does the same thing and prints that more times
(21:32:58) Shimmering Moon:
(21:33:01) Shimmering Moon: oh
(21:33:02) Shimmering Moon: yes
(21:33:05) Spanky: Remove them…
(21:33:10) Spanky: Then reboot
(21:33:14) Shimmering Moon: no i don’t actually
(21:33:16) Shimmering Moon: i just checked
(21:33:28) Shimmering Moon:
(21:33:38) Spanky: No floppy in it either?
(21:33:38) Shimmering Moon: wait
(21:33:40) Shimmering Moon: i do have a floppy
(21:33:43) Shimmering Moon: my mistake
(21:33:45) Spanky: …
(21:33:51) Spanky: Reboot it now
(21:33:54) Shimmering Moon: yes
(21:33:54) Shimmering Moon:
(21:34:41) Spanky: All good?
(21:34:46) Shimmering Moon: yes
(21:34:47) Shimmering Moon: my fault
(21:34:48) Shimmering Moon: ok
(21:34:48) Spanky: Good
(21:34:49) Shimmering Moon: i’m dumb
(21:34:52) Shimmering Moon: i feel really dumb now
(21:34:53) Shimmering Moon:
(21:35:04) Spanky: You’re a peanut hehe
And I’m going to post this on my site lol

Grr LDAP syntax is fussy.

Equality filter:

attribute=value

So what do you think the Inequality filter would be? attribute!=value? attribute!value? No, and no. We use brackets. No problem right? Right…

attribute!(value)
attribute(!value)
!attribute=value
!(attribute=value)

All nope.

You have to do it using BIMDAS, and then put the whole thing in brackets. Oh and the brackets will cause the equality filter to fail.

CORRECT: (!(attribute=value))
INCORRECT: (attribute=value)

Sigh….

Added FreeBSD Commands in the resources section.

Linux ext filesystems reserve 5% of HDD space for the superuser by default. On a 100G drive, thats 5G! Lower this:

tune2fs /dev/ -m 2

To lower it to 2% or whichever value you want.

I put the old Netgear WAB102 and straight away, 100% connection strength, even in the same place as the Dlink 624. Only 11Mb, but I get the full speed of that (1.5MB/s) as opposed to 48Mb and getting 20% speed (1.5MB/s)

Upgraded the firmware on the Netgear, and it doesn’t appear to drop the connection anymore. It even seems to support SNMP, so I’m going to set that up in a minute too

Can’t find the damn receipt for the 624 though…I’m hoping Harvey Norman will refund me, since the Dlink is obviously a POS and Dlink don’t give me any support other than ‘Interference’ (even though the arials are right next to each other and ‘general nature of networks’ (and never responding to my request for clarification). Hmm. Might go watch some Voyager.