Internet Services from KKoncepts

Soon after installing Windows 7 professional (64-bit) the updates from Microsoft started to fail. Unlike most of the Windows XP and Vista fixes found on the internet, my Windows 7 problem was different. Specifically for Windows 7 the default resolution answer out there, was to call Microsoft. Finally I did some diggin and found on a MS site another thing to try (maybe the third option), was to run the "Readiness Tool". Here is the link to the download....

Being a perl "fan boy" from way back, I have a lot of small perl scripts lying around that I use to look through logs for something specific. We use Cacti and Nagios for "real" monitoring, but I've got scripts to see which email accounts have failed authentication attempts, who's logged into certain services in the past X days, how many connections our email server has rejected based on blacklisting, etc., etc.

One of the things I do quite often is make a clone of a Ubuntu server vdi image that I made in the past so that I can do some testing on a fully setup Ubuntu server image. When the testing is over, I would normally delete this image. Using this clone image, I make a new Virtual Box machine with a bridge network - as I would normally want to access the server from my host machine as a server.

I use VirtualBox when I need to run Windows, and it works beautifully. But today I went to install some Windows software off a CD and discovered that I could no longer connect the CD drive on my laptop to VirtualBox.

I've wanted for some time to create my own custom installer for the Windows OpenVPN client. Up until now we've told clients to download the software and then given them the certificates and configuration files they needed along with instructions on how to install them. But some people still end up unable to use the VPN, which means more support calls for us.

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Couriersite is a web program we've written which is designed to allow relatively easy administration of Courier email servers. It is also designed to allow others to administer different parts of the email system, thereby making less work for the overworked and under paid email administrator! To that end, it provides four programs:

All of our systems are 64-bit, but today I needed to compile a simple executable for a 32-bit system. Fortunately gcc makes that easy; just add the "-m32" switch to the command line. Unfortunately, it didn't work!

Sunbird and Lightning display the calendars in the order of their creation. There is no easy way to rearrange the order each appears but to delete and recreate them in order you like.
 
A quick 'grep' show that they are kept in a file 'storage.sdb' which is a SQLite database.
 
I found a Firefox add-on "SQLite Manager' and use it to view the database. Two tables of interest are 'cal_calendars' and 'cal_calendars_prefs'.
 

This morning I began my working day, as usual, by firing up my trusty Dell laptop. I then deviated from my normal routine and promptly sneezed all over the keyboard. I do not recommend this. While I can find no mention of this in the "how NOT to care for your Dell product" section of my "User's Guide", there certain should be. It makes a HUGE mess which requires a fair bit of time to clean up.