I was a fan of WCCP for setting up transparent proxy within a network - it always seemed the easiest way but all together it only seemed like that. A lot of problems came up in the past few month on customer sides and within my installation so I decided...
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Configuring NTP for Cisco CallManager 4.x
Configuring Ciscos CallManager 4.0 and above to use NTP is not as simple as it should be. First at all, CCM 4.0 is using Windows 2000 as a base system and NTP nor SNTP is enabled there per default. Especially Win2000 is using SNTP, therefore CCM 4.0 is installing a...
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Installing Ubuntu on a PowerMac
After a lot of testing and playing around with my PowerMac (which I do not own any more) I found out that Ubuntu 10.10 is working without any problems out of the box. That was the best solution for first time installation and then I upgraded to the newest version....
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HTC Magic upgrade to 2.2.1 A1 Mobilkom / Vodafone
After Vodafone UK released the 2.2.1 Update for the HTC Magic 32B everyone is going for it. Thats what I did as well, but a Over The Air (OTA) Update is not getting applied to a phone which is not stock.
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DynDNS Problem with DD-WRT
Since a few weeks my DD-WRT router running on V24-SP2 is coming up with an annoying log message concerning the DynDNS Service I am using DYNDNS: Error 'RC_IP_RECV_ERROR' (0x15) when talking to IP server
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Upgrading to a newer Version of Ubuntu
Based on the fact, that Ubuntu 9.04 was announced today, it is a good idea to explain how to upgrade every Ubuntu Version using the command line.
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Cacti - Passwords do not match, please retype.
With the message Error: Passwords do not match, please retype. Cacti tried to make my life horrible today, but not with me.
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Error opening nvram:/startup-config (Unknown error 0)
%Error opening nvram:/startup-config (Unknown error 0)
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Cisco SDM 404 Error
Ciscos SDM is sometimes used for configuring more complex router functions, after upgrading the SDM you could get a 404 error fot the path https://IP_ADDRESSE/home/html/home_aux.shtml
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Auto-Logout in der Bash Shell
Eingelogged ist man oft schneller als ausgelogged. Sehr problematisch ist es, wenn eine Root-Shell nach dem Verlassen des Computers offen bleibt und jeder Anwesende hier herumwerken kann. Aus diesem Grund gibt es innerhalb der Bash Shell die Environment Variable TMOUT, setzt man diese, entweder per Hand mit export TMOUT=120 oder...
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