Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category

Ethernet card problem – ‘eth2_rena’

Friday, July 18th, 2008

This is the sort of problem I expect that only happens to people who muck about with already working kit. Another evening spent regretting ever shutting down a running system 'for just a few minutes while I add some hardware'. I run a few websites on a Dell PowerEdge SC440 tower ...

If-Modified-Since date formats in Firefox and IE7

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Everybody who has a webserver wants to use less bandwidth. A webserver sends out a lot of copies of the same information. Stylesheets, images, static HTML pages, javascript files. Many of these rarely, if ever,  change from one visit by a browser to the next. Fortunately, there are a few ...

Sendmail DSN – forwarding root’s mail

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Further to my earlier article "Streamyx SMTP server authentication problem", the other part of my problem was the DSN - Delivery Status Notification emails were not coming to any of my interactive users. I thought at the time they might be going to the sender, since the mails were coming ...

Zoneedit.com Dynamic DNS update script

Friday, June 13th, 2008

We use both DynDNS and ZoneEdit for our Dynamic DNS. We use inadyn for our Dynamic DNS Custom Zones, but since inadyn uses DynDNS's checkip service, it doesn't seem fair to use it for our ZoneEdit zones too. zoneeditscript is freshly written as of 12th June 2008, so maybe there will ...

Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot buttons for WordPress

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Sociable is one of those plugins that makes WordPress such a joy to use. Super easy to install, just download, copy and unpack the archive. Setup from the WordPress Admin panel. This is what really floats my boat about some of the WordPress contributions - they're beautiful! The author could ...