Programming, Hardware, Software and gadgets.
I used the following code for posting/uploading binary data (example: upload a file for an email attachment in webmail). It can also be used to send MMS messages to an Internet MMS Gateway. Code is in VBScript which can be run without the use of additional components. Example1 (upload) Example2 (mms) If you however like [...]
In my search for an easy, stable and manageable backup tool, I tested Acronis True Image Server 9.5 (Enterprise Edition). My goal was to backup several Windows 2003 servers and some Linux CentOS 5.2 servers. I experienced a lot of problems and weird things; […]
Below is a script for Gallery2 to automate the building and resizing of thumbnails and resizes. Schedule it as a cron-job (cut and paste it to “gallery2-rebuilt” in your “/etc/cron.daily” folder). You can even schedule this script from a remote linux machine which does not host the Gallery2. Dependencies are minimal (no CURL used)! [...]
Because of the problems i had with getting my Wii Game Console onto Wi-Fi and the fact that i screwed-up my Asus Accesspoint by connecting it to a to heavy cable so the plug broke.. I decided i deserved a new Accesspoint. […]
Most of us decided to use (ASP) VBScript to quickly write a script or build a simple website, writing code in a ‘higher-level’ has the advantage to keep our mind on the functionality of the script or website and forget about the low-level technical stuff. Unfortunately, we have to worry about the following issue (example [...]
Recently I tried to update the software of my Wii game console which was no as user-friendly as i thought it would be. […]
I always advise everyone to use DFS (Distributed File System), even when you do not plan to replicate files/folders between servers, it’s a good way of getting rid of all that server names. Do these problems sound familiar: "On which server was that share ?" or "The share is running out of space, but we can’t move [...]
I recently migrated some Windows platforms to Windows Server 2003 x64 which were running Windows 2003 Server (normal 32-bit version). The reason for this was that i migrated to a new virtual platform (in my case Xen Enterprise 4.0.1) which supports 64bit Operating Systems, so it would be a quick win… If i didn’t had XEN (or another [...]
Previous years i had running several scheduled tasks on all my servers. Recently I migrated all my Physical Large Iron Hardware (mostly servers) to Virtual Servers (VMs) in XEN. I have an OpenFiler SAN which hosts all the Storage (iSCSI storage or NFS shares). I still had all my scheduled tasks running at all the Virtual [...]
Since a while, i’m using OpenFiler 2.x and Xen 4.01 Enterprise. I use the iSCSI capabilities of OpenFiler for my Storage Repositories (SR) in Xen. Last week i had a space problem for one of my VMs in XEN: The (virtual) Harddrive was only 30GB and i wanted to add another drive of 60GB. However, my Storage Repository [...]