Apache includes a nice feature that displays localised errors. This makes use of Server Side Includes (SSI). When you use PHP and have it also parse .html documents, your localised errors are broken. In fact, because the initial error will generate new errors, it becomes a mess. You typically see this in your error log:… Continue reading Fixing the Apache “unable to include…” localised errors
Brute-forcing pksc12 passphrases with OpenSSL
For some project I needed to recover the password that was used to encrypt a PKCS12 key. I found a nice patch for openssl by Aion but that did not compile on any of my machines. After some trial and error, I was able to compile it under Debian Woody. For your convenience, I have… Continue reading Brute-forcing pksc12 passphrases with OpenSSL
Rename VMware Virtual machines on ESX
Ever wanted to rename a virtual machine and found out that the “Rename” option merely renames the “friendly name” in VirtualCenter? You could clone the VM to a new one with the proper name, but that requires a lot of downtime usually. There is a quicker way: Shut down the VM Choose “Remove from inventory”… Continue reading Rename VMware Virtual machines on ESX
XP Service Pack 3 breaks FAST
After slipstreaming Service Pack 3 into my Windows XP Professional CD image, you cannot use FAST (File and Settings Transfer Wizard) to import a backup made with FAST on a XP SP2. Attempting to do so will yield this error: Your migration store was created with a previous version of File and Settings Transfer Wizard.… Continue reading XP Service Pack 3 breaks FAST
Mozilla Marktplaats tralies bug
Sinds jaren bestaat er een bug in de code van Marktplaats.nl, waardoor de boel bij het verwijderen van een advertentie blijft hangen in een soort gevangenis met grijze tralies. Het maakt niet uit wat je doet op de site — uitloggen, inloggen, zoeken, het scherm blijft een traliepatroon. Het enige dat helpt is het venster/tab… Continue reading Mozilla Marktplaats tralies bug
Windows XP for power users
Windows Vista has been released over 18 months ago, and my initial reaction was that this operating system is the most bloated, sluggish crap ever released by Microsoft. Everyone was hoping that Service Pack 1 would relieve some of the pain, but unfortunately Microsoft failed to put any significant performance improvements in. I have come… Continue reading Windows XP for power users
Areca releases driver for VMware
Areca has just released a beta driver for use with VMware ESX 3.5 🙂 This means that finally all the advantages of the Areca hardware can be used to build VMware systems. I consider the Areca’s one of the best (if not the best) professional SATA RAID controllers out there. I have used Dell servers… Continue reading Areca releases driver for VMware
Custom Ubuntu software repository
Sometimes I need to recompile software packages on Ubuntu, for instance because of a special feature. I use the resulting packages on a number of servers, but manually using dpkg to install muickly becomes a pain if the number of machines becomes significant. Therefore I have created a custom software repository that can be used… Continue reading Custom Ubuntu software repository
Music with Ubuntu
Play it on remote HiFi speakers After several Linux trials and errors over the last couple of years, I finally switched to Ubuntu Gutsy as my main OS on my laptop. The user experience of current Linux distro’s is good enough, and Linux does not (yet) suffer from the massive amount of malware and virusses… Continue reading Music with Ubuntu
Multiple full VM backups using VCB, rsync, OpenSSH and VSS
The problem Our shiny new VI3 setup works really well, but the backup chapter still needs work. I P2V-ed all our Linux boxes to VM’s, so the existing rsnapshot file level backups still run. So far so good. But, in addition to file level backups, I also want full VM backups, each day, both on-site… Continue reading Multiple full VM backups using VCB, rsync, OpenSSH and VSS