http://www.nuclearweasels.com Tech stuff from Dan Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:39:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today a VPS I own ran in to a slight issue, every PHP we tried to run failed with a 500 Internal Server Error. After a few hours of diagnostics and upgrades I finally figured out what the issue was, the SuPHP module was attempting to run php5 on ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/09/premature-end-of-script-headers-suphp-cpanel-on-centos/ I've decided its time to sit my 70-299 exam, it will be booked for early September at the very latest. At the present time I'm using Microsoft One Note 2007 to compile my notes, its working out quite well at the moment. My aim is to pass this exam and then begin ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/08/70-299/ With much trepidation I decided to try Window's 7 on my 16 Gigabyte SSD Acer Aspire One, previous attempts at running XP and Vista on the machine left me feeling kind of numb. The issues with Windows and the SSD made the machine almost unusable for even the most basic ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/08/windows-7-on-acer-aspire-one/ Several months ago I was involved in a project to upgrade the link which connects us to the University we get our internet connection through, the project involved decomissioning a Wireless connection and commissioning a new Fibre Link. Thankfully for me the Fibre Link portion of the project was handled ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/08/we-dont-have-the-time/ Just a heads up to my fellow SysAdmins, Sun has struck a deal with Carbonite to distribute a 30 Day Trial of Carbonites online backup software with the latest update to Java. It's not something you really want in your corporate environment, so be aware if your users have the ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/08/carbonite-on-java-update/ We recently purchased Ghost Suite 2.5 from Symantec. In testing we noticed an issue where by if you tried to deploy the Ghost Client to a PC in a workgroup it would fail with the following error message. Failed to install: \\PC780 (7): Connection: Logon failure. Possible reasons are: 1. Incorrectly specified password and/or username. 2. ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/06/ghost-suite-client-simple-file-sharing/ I recently installed the RC of Windows 7 along with it I installed Steam. What followed was an issue where the software refused to load Steam.dll. The issue was related to the fact the corporate firewall was blocking steams port, in my case I added the machine to the CMP allow rule ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/06/steam-on-windows-7/ Success, the automatic wiping of my Nokia N95 8Gig worked at around 21:15 PM last night. Proving beyond a doubt that the technology can be rolled out for use at work. It’s just a pity that we rolled out the software nearly 6 months ago, and that I finished ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/05/mobile-device-wipe-works/ Here at the office we've wanted to enable wake on lan for our GX270's for some time, today I finally figured out how. In addition to enabling wol in the bios you also have to set the power save mode to S3 and ensure that low power mode is switched off. Hope ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/03/wake-on-lan-dell-gx270/ Following my recent tweets regarding the number of servers were I work, I've had some feed back asking exactly how we have that many servers / services running here. I will now attempt to explain it as best I can. The company I work for (like many other companies of its ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2008/12/the-big-four-oh/