Category Archives: Technology
Install Packages on OpenBSD 4.x and OpenBSD 5.x
To install binary packages on OpenBSD, the package manager needs to have the correct download URL. This URL changes based on OpenBSD version and architecture. Here is how to set it independently: export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$(uname -r)/packages/$(machine -a)/ Once that is done, … Continue reading
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OpenVPN connects, but no ping
OpenVPN connection issue on Windows Vista and Windows 7 Problem When connecting to an OpenVPN tunnel on Windows Vista or Windows 7, the OpenVPN GUI shows the connection as successful, but the protected network can not be reached. Solution Start … Continue reading
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Enterprise Social Media Analytics with Atlas for Connections
The key benefits from deploying an enterprise social media software are to improve customer satisfaction by building stronger relationships with customers, staff effectiveness by simplifying access to existing internal expertise, staff retention by allowing employees to build a stronger network … Continue reading
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IBM Power Systems Model and Serial
IBM makes it very easy to get the model number and the serial number of an AIX system or a VIOS on thier Power Series: $ uname -M # model number IBM,NNNN-NNN $ uname -m # serial number HHHHHHHHHHHH You … Continue reading
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Sync Contacts Between Lotus Notes, Traveler and iNotes
Lotus Notes has four main functions: email, calendar, address book, and to-do. Of these functions, the address book is the only piece that is stored locally on whatever computer you added the entries. Thus, if you need to have access … Continue reading
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Life after Firepublish
My friend Andrew (CTO of LiquidCompass) recommended Firepublish a few years ago for helping manging team work between web developers, and web designers. Unfortuantely, Firepublish has been offline for quite some time now, and here is what Andrew recommends to … Continue reading
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NewPush Listed as Top Notes and Domino Hosting Provider
If you are looking for a hosted Lotus Notes or Domino solution with flexible infrastructure at commodity cloud rates, you have found the right place. Yesterday NewPush made it to the top of the IBM list of Hosted Lotus Notes … Continue reading
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Installing a Secure Certificate on IBM Smart Business Server (VERDE)
At the time of this writing, the IBM Smart Business Server’s control panel doesn’t allow importing a secure certificate (SSL cert). Never-the-less it is possible to install a valid (CA signed) secure certificate from the command line. This article assumes … Continue reading
cPanel quota fix
cPanel has an array of fairly impressive scripts located in /scripts . When having disk quota issues, running /scripts/fixquota allows to return the cPanel server to a state allowing to alter the hosting plans and disk space quotas.
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Sametime 8.5.1 Deployment
To deploy a Sametime environment with multiple levels of licensing, multiple Sametime servers with each respective license versions needed (Entry, Standard, etc.). The Sametime wiki has a number of useful resources to plan out a complex Sametime deployment: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/page.xsp?documentId=6F6353B28F5FB51185257775007AC431&action=openDocument http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/1.3_Lotus_Sametime_product_family … Continue reading
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