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Setting up ODBC connection to SQL Server in on linux/perl
Useful info from http://www.idevelopment.info/data/MSSQL/DBA_tips/Programming/PROG_2.shtml Specifically – Install DBI / FreeTDS / DBD-Sybase Configure FreeTDS At this point, all software components and modules are installed. The final step is to configure FreeTDS to talk to your SQL Server 2000 database! FreeTDS uses a configuration file called freetds.conf. This file can be found in the FreeDS installation […]
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Restting the Brake Wear Indicator on a 06 Mini Cooper
You need to press and hold the runflat light reset switch under the handbrake until that lights on the dash. Then do it again Eventually the light will go out (Don’t worry about the runflat warning light coming on – once you turn off the ignition it will go back off.)
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Snowboard tracking
Since getting the iPhone one app I was hoping to find is one to use while snowboarding. I’m looking for something that will do the following Include Piste Maps (pre-downloaded) Have the ability to track selected runs – detail max speed View Tracks on google earth at a later date NOT require data download on […]
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nslookup Works but Ping doesn’t – Solaris 10
Due to the way Ping works it uses files other than /etc/resolve.conf to find out the address of computer from a name. After installing Solaris 10 I had this problem. The solution was to put the following into /etc/nsswitch.conf # You must also set up the /etc/resolv.conf file for DNS name # server lookup. See […]
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Disk clone between two systems using DD & Netcat
Boot both machines using a Live CD i.e. Ubuntu 8.10.Make sure you have network access on both machines On the target system I would run: nc –l –p 10000 | dd of=/dev/hda On the source system I would run: dd if=/dev/hda | nc my.ip.address.com 10000 –q 10 Below is an example of imageing a HS21 […]
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Fixing Vista MBR with SATA & PATA Mix
After resizing a partition in vista (and playing around in OSX a bit) I broke my Vista install. I have Vista running on a SATA disk but I also have a PATA disc which I am playing around with OSX on. I was getting a problem where the OS would not boot in Vista…The bootloader […]
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Setting up VMware Server under HA using Heartbeat on SLES 10.1
Base OS installation is SLES10.1 Installing VMWare Server Download the latest version from www.vmware.com – Currently 1.0.4 (9/18/07) As root uncompress the . tar.gz file “tar -xvf VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz” Move into the directory created by tar “cd vmware-server-distrib“ Launch the installer using ” ./vmware-install.pl“ Most of the questions you will be able to take the default […]
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Sending using SMTP via Perl – Authenticated
I’ve had problems getting authenticated sessons within perl to work when connecting to SMTP servers. The key to the problem was installing the sasl package. This can be done on ubuntu using sudo apt-get install libauthen-sasl-perl
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First problem with XP SP3
After hearing all the disaster reports about installing SP3 I decided to take the dive and installed it on my works ‘Intel’ laptop. It all seemed to go on fine. Could not really say if its much quicker. Maybe boots up a bit quicker but didn’t do any timed tests. As it all worked fine […]
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Creating a VM from a Linux System
Create a VM with similar characteristics i.e. Same OS & HDD setup as real machine. Real Machine IBM HS20 Blade 2x Xeon Processors Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 48G 3.5G 43G 8% / /dev/sda1 99M 53M 41M 57% /boot /dev/sdb5 49G 4.5G 42G 10% /db2data none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb2 […]