Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver
November 7, 2009
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 410comments
Gira has a made beautifull Homeserver and FacilityServer. Unfortunatelly it’s quite expensive (about € 2400,- for their Homeserver3 and the Facilityserver is even more). Is this device made of gold ?
The opposite is true, the Homeserver3 exists of: (more…)
Touch Screen seems broken or misaligned?
September 13, 2009
Posted by Roel in : Technical , add a comment
I always wear a screencover/seal on my phone untill I went to a Smoking Eel party recently (“NK Palingroken“), my phone was so oily that the screencover just slide off.. the screencover was dirty and messed up so I put the phone in my trousers without screen protection.
A few days later I thought the touch screen was broken, the screen itself did work but it didn’t react when touching it. I thought a reset would work.. NOT.. a hard reset.. Still nothing..
I noticed it sometimes react on a touch.. but totally weird.. at the wrong place. Did it un-align in my pocket ?
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Posting Binary data (automate a file upload)
July 22, 2009
Posted by Roel in : Technical , add a comment
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 to use a component, try ASPFusion‘s AdvHTTP. You don’t need all the code and don’t need to bother about the fact that VBScript is not BinarySafe.
Acronis True Image Server hell!
December 21, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 1 comment so far
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;
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Gallery2 Cron-job to automate “build-all-thumbnail/resizes”
July 29, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 3comments
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)!
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Project: New Wi-Fi Accesspoint
June 14, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , 1 comment so far
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.
VBScript: Be carefull using Doubles or Singles!
May 27, 2008
Posted by Roel in : Technical , add a comment
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 is using Classis ASP/VBScript)
Response.Write CDbl(112.51)<>CDbl(94.55+17.96)
‘Answer: TRUE -> WRONG!!
Response.Write CCur(112.51)<>CCur(94.55+17.96)
‘Answer: False
The correct answer is FALSE.
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Wii and WiFi errors (52035,..)
May 6, 2008
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Recently I tried to update the software of my Wii game console which was no as user-friendly as i thought it would be.
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Why DFS doesn’t replicate certain files ?
January 28, 2008
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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 it to another server because 1000+ employees mapped it" ?
Take a look at this video (or show it to your manager), it’s easy to understand.
Problems
After I configured DFS for the Home Directories share (using replication to another server), i saw that not all files were replicated.
5 files to be exactly, 4 pictures (jpg/gif) and 1 PDF document.
Diving into this issue, there are a few reasons why files won’t get replicated; (more…)
X64 issues (when migrating some servers)
January 10, 2008
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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 virtual platform), i would have to buy several complete new servers (hardware) when i wanted to do this (migrating to 64bit) because none of my ‘old’ Pentium III, Pentium IV and Xeon processors supported 64bit, even the system boards did’t support 64bit CPU’s.
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