exlcuding files in samba share

Will — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:21:58 +0000

Edit smb.conf, add the following line:

$ veto files = /*.mp3/*.avi/*.mpg/

Save and restart Samba.

the new terminator movie

Will — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:59:11 +0000

Ah yes, an action flick that has Christian Bale in it THIS HAS GOT TO BE GOOD!

spam me!

Will — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:50:11 +0000

I’m testing out my new spam filters, so web bots, index my email address: iam@willsani.com

ahhhh!

Will — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:14:43 +0000

The cutest cuddly woddly things that make you go ahhh.

modifying virtuozzo (linux) default certificate

Will — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:20:10 +0000

Easy! Edit the following with your own:

$ /vz/root/1/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
$ /vz/root/1/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key

Log-in to the service container and restart the vzcp service. All done!

virtuozzo, adding yum to ve

Will — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:20:49 +0000

If you want to add yum to a virtual instance you can do it by running the following command:

$ vzpkg install -p [VEID] yum

active directory + apache + svn = “crock”

Will — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:01:16 +0000

While I was reading more about AD and Apache, I ran into the following quote by “Sander Marechal”

“Microsoft Active Directory is a bit-rotten crock that should have never seen the light of day. After two full days of waving dead chickens at it, trying to make any sense of it’s irrational behavior I would love nothing more than to pick it up and throw it off the roof of our building, BofH style, aiming it at the PHB that bought it in the first place. Or it’s programmer. Whomever passes by first. It’s API only vaguely resembles LDAP after at least three bottles of whiskey or one pan galactic gargle blaster and squinting really, really hard.”

I laughed, then proceeded to bang my head against the desk!

rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery

Will — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:14:33 +0000

I believe in mass hysteria and panic! Well, not completely. I ran into an issue with yum not updating correctly. The solution was really simple:

$ cd /var/lib/rpm/ && rm -rfv __db*

Run yum clean all and re-run it. It should work for you.

why cgi scripts will not execute on plesk servers

Will — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:25:54 +0000

In case if you ever run into an issue with .cgi scripts not executing on a Plesk server, try the following:

Locate httpd.conf (usually in /etc/httpd/conf/) and use vi to edit it.
Look for the following line: # AddHandler cgi-script .cgi and remove the comment from the beginning of the line
Save the file, then run $ service httpd reload

wordpress error: tinyMCE is not defined

Will — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:08:14 +0000

Evidently everyone has the same issue but no one has a good solution for WordPress (2.5.1) error when you edit a post: tinyMCE is not defined. The solution is to remove js_cache from wp-content/uploads/ folder. Clear your web browser’s cache, then try to edit the post. It will correct the issue.

lftp the sensible alternative to ftp

Will — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:12:15 +0000

The nix* ftp client doesn’t support recursive directory uploads (bah!), so the sensible alternative is to use something like LFTP:

$ lftp -u user,pass -e “mirror –reverse –delete –only-newer –verbose /source /remote” ftp-server

15 minute free fall

Will — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:25:33 +0000

He’s going to break the sound barrier while free falling!

back to the future?!

Will — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:13:40 +0000

One scientist theories explains.

css in IE vs. FF

Will — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:05:15 +0000

In my travels designing a new corporate website I figured that my CSS defined class was just looking really wonky in IE compared to Mozilla. Microsoft (in all of it’s bask in glory) has a unique rendering engine unlike its counterparts. But they’re coming around and are beginning to follow the W3C standards. Firefox’s rendering engine is based off of Mozilla’s standards, which follow very closely with those recommended by the W3C.

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virtuozzo vzup2date failure

Will — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:07:58 +0000

I was running vzup2date on CenotOS 5.1 when the following error came up:

[RPM] Dependencies conflict.
/usr/bin/rpmbuild is needed by vztt-build-4.0.0-116.swsoft.x86_64

The solution was really simple. Install rpm-build:

$yum install rpm-build

Once you’ve done this, you can proceed with vzup2date without any errors.

finally! someone explains what web {1,2,3}.0 means

Will — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:17:19 +0000

Check it out.

centos large volume (>2tB) setup

Will — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:20:18 +0000

I thought I would share the steps I took to setup CentOS 5.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 1900 withPerc 5/i and 6/750GB hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration.

Setup your RAID arrays:
- OS VD: Using the Perc 5/i configuration utility, remove all existing arrays (If new from factory), then setup the first virtual disk (VD0) as a RAID 5 using all drives (right all of them), then specify the volume size. In my case, I chose to allocate 120GB (122880 MB). This is where I’m going to install the OS.
- Data VD: You’ll want to setup a second virtual disk as a RAID 5 with all of the disks selected and allocate the remaining disk to it. When you continue to the OS install, the installer will see SDA (VD 0) and SDB (VD 1) for the partitions.

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the snake had two legs

Will — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:50:21 +0000

Yeah, here we go with the bashing on Digg. But for what its worth, I enjoyed reading the story and correlating to the book of Genesis. Read the whole article here.

outlook 2007 error 0×800CCC80

Will — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:34:59 +0000

Yeah, I upgraded to Outlook 2007 and here is what I got: 0×800CCC80 when attempting to send an email. The solution to the problem is listed below:

Go to Tools > Account Settings > Double click the account > More Settings > Outgoing Server > ‘Log on to incoming mail server before sending mail’.

You’re welcome!

funny exam answers

Will — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:50:24 +0000

A small portion of the American education system at play.