Computer and technology related topics
Good news for the cheap photographers, Yahoo! wants back in the photography sharing game. Flickr has redesigned its website and is now offering 1TB of Free photo storage to anyone. You can see on my grandfathered Pro account I have only used 0.035TB up in 2 years! To give you an idea of how many … Read more
Over the last few days some of you noticed a 403 forbidden error from time to time. So I’d login, check the Apache error logs and see this entry “(13)Permission denied: /home/benjamin/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable.” Well the permissions were set, I had the executable +x bit for www-data … Read more
Ben’s List of Free Programs 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/ Open Source compression / decompression program that handles almost any format (rar, zip, bz2, tar, etc.). Better than WinZip. CamStudio http://camstudio.org Screen recording application (use Handbrake to encode output file to a usable format) CHIRP http://chirp.danplanet.com Open source program for programming amateur radios (great for BaoFeng and … Read more
Got my $44 UV-5RA Chinese built ham radio. For the price I couldn’t pass it up just to see how good a ham radio this cheap could be. Update 2014-05-11 It has been a little over a year since I first wrote this and BaoFeng has released several versions of this radio, UV-5RE, UV-82, FB-F8+, UV-B5, GT3, … Read more
(Updated: June 8, 2013. I’ve updated this post to clarify based on some questions I’ve received). For the clueless, ActiveSync is the protocol that allows you to sync your Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks with your messaging provider. Your two options to have an ActiveSync server is through a cloud solution (e.g Gmail, Outook.com, etc.) … Read more
I just found out TomatoUSB can be used to manage internal DNS. On the Dnsmasq custom configuration add: local-ttl=1 address=/hostname/ipaddress That should have been in the documentation somewhere…
CrashPlan is a great way to backup your ZFS server, here’s a quick install recipe for OpenIndiana: Download the Solaris CrashPlan client from here: http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/download.html?os=SunOS Move the file to /var/spook/pkg then run…# sudo pkgadd (follow the prompts, do what’s obvious). Setup Crashplan service:# svccfg import /opt/sfw/crashplan/bin/crashplan.xml# svcadm enable crashplanObviously you’ll want to move the backupArchive … Read more
Some of it anyway… Source: http://www.internetpulse.net/Main.aspx?Metric=PL
One reason I don’t see addressed very often is your drive is too full… Hard drives have a head that is like a needle for records, or a laser for CDs. It has to position itself on a track then wait for the sector with the data you’re after to spin into position. The nature … Read more
Here’s a simple query that reports SQL Server locks along with the program name, host, sql process id, and the user that went off to lunch in the middle of their transaction… select * from sys.dm_tran_locks l join sys.dm_exec_sessions s on l.request_session_id = s.session_id join sys.sysobjects o on l.resource_associated_entity_id = o.id