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So you’ve got yourself one of those dreaded Microsoft Outlook errors? Same here:

Task ‘Checking for new mail in subscribed folders on Mail Failure Logs.’ reported error (0×8004DF0B) : ‘Outlook is unable to download folder (null) from the IMAP e-mail server for account Mail Failure Logs. Error: The connection to the server is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).’

Truth be told, Bill Gates isn’t at fault here. This is actually a courier-imap setting. To correct the issue, shell to your server, and edit /etc/courier-imap/imapd (may be located elsewhere on your *nix distro) look for the following flag: MAXPERIP=4, increase the number and restar the courier services. The error is no longer there.

Like I said, music 1.0 is dead

RIAA’s Mafia days are numbered…

I’m beginning to lose my mind with the amount of information I have to remember. This includes the passwords for nearly 200+ accounts that I have for my personal and web hosting business that I maintain.

Now, I could have setup a fancy database and encrypt the data using DES but that’s too much work and I want to be able to carry the data securely with me. So, what’s the answer? Enter IronKey.

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$78 for the 1GB version got me a USB key that has a built in Crypto chip that protects data using the same encryption algorithm as many governmental agencies. I wish that they would have developed the Linux drivers as well. It seems that they’re working on it but no news on when it’ll be released. Update: Core functions now available in Linux.

Note: Remember to carry it with you and don’t leave sitting around in the office. This has a threshold of 10 attempts for the account log-in, so try 10 times and you’ll erase everything permanently!

Of course, your other alternative is PassPack but you won’t have a cool all metal USB key that’s practically indestructible.

If you’re a Linux geek in the San Francisco bay area, then you should contribute to installfest.

Easy:

$ find [path] -user [user] -print | xargs rm -Rfv

Evidently the IT guys at Paris in Vegas don’t believe in upgrades:

crap! Plesk with Qmail has some small bugs. To correct this particular issue, run the following command:

$ find /var/qmail/mailnames -type d -name ‘.*’ -a -not -name ‘.spamassassin’ -exec touch ‘{}’/maildirfolder \; -exec chown popuser:popuser ‘{}’/maildirfolder \;

Give it a few minutes…

Really easy! If you have an SSL certificate, you can setup pop3s, imaps and smtps by editing the following:

POP3: /usr/share/courier-imap/pop3d.pem
IMAP: /usr/share/courier-imap/imapd.pem

First, backup the existing files, then (use vi) remove the KEY And CERTIFICATE and replace them with your own. Once you’ve done this, run:

$ service courier-imap restart

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So, I run the bash installer for a software from the shell and I get a window with ASCII characters instead of the lines for the border. The solution?

$ export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1″ >> .bashrc

I’ve been running on nothing but Rockstart, Chilli, Fig newton and some other crap for the last 24 hours now. There is nothing glam-fabulus about IT!

So, I wanted to setup a Dell PowerEdge 1800 with a Cerc 6 channel SATA controller for Raid 5. I had 6 (count them, 6) 750GB hard drives. The only problem is that the Cerc 6 has a 2 TB storage limitation. This means that you can’t setup all 6 drives on the same array.

Before you begin: Flash your motherboard and controller BIOS. Continue reading »

I’m thoroughly annoyed with Microsoft and how they have yet to develop a good data migration tool… I can’t believe that I still have to use file transfers and complex SQL queries to move databases from one server to an other. Argh!

While PDSH is nothing new, it comes in really handy when you have to issue the same command on 100+ servers. Using pdsh, you can do a variety of things. In my case, I just restart the snmpd service using the following:

$ pdsh -w “root@host[01-100]” service snmpd restart

A couple of things to note:

1. Run ssh-add to save yourself the headache of entering your password
2.  You have to install PDSH before you can run it.

Have fun!

If you’ve got $80 mil laying around, you too can fly supersonic…

I use Fedora at work. It seems Fedora 8 is getting a good rep.

This works with itunes 7.5 in case if you want to do a conversion.

I’ve been working on a website that pretty much fits the “web 2.0 fluff” category, but this is funny!

Apple sells 2 million copies of Leopard in the first weekend. I’d like to add that OSX does work well!