http://www.totalnetsolutions.net totalnetsolutions.net - Complete Networking Solutions for business Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:00:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Because not enough information exists in easy-to-find searches: as a simple reminder - SCSI device IDs can and will change. A few months ago I hot-added a new disk to an ssh bastion host (a VM on ESX). As these things tend to go, I eventually took a maintenance window ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2010/02/26/device-or-resource-busy-trying-to-open-devsdx1/ First written on Twitter: @docsmooth: Signs of twitspam: bio is tinyurl; <100 updates, >200 following/ers;all updates "from twitfeed", inc. link; no conversation. Check yourself! I just went through my followers list on twitblock.org and thought I'd write a bit deeper on this subject. Ways to determine a twitter spammer - higher scores are ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2009/09/17/determining-spam-on-twitter/ Upgrading software - always required to keep things secure.  Windows, Wordpress, Mac OSx, Linux, Office, Firefox, etc.  So I just finished upgrading TotalNetSolutions.net again.  Hopefully I'll be able to be better about this, now that Wordpress does the automatic upgrades now. I've been doing the automatic upgrades on one of my ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2009/09/07/upgraded-wordpress/ I've been using TweetDeck as a Twitter client for a while now, and love it. I recently updated my main laptop from Kubuntu 8.04 to Kubuntu 9.04, and even though the ATI x1300 3d driver is broken, I'm finally getting all the little annoyances fixed up. The biggest issue I ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2009/05/07/kde-4-and-tweetdeck-small-issue-fixed/ It used to be that you could edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add "blacklist pcspkr" to turn off the console beeps entirely on Ubuntu / Kubuntu.  As of 9.04, the module is now called "snd_pcsp". So, to turn off console (not X terminal, but tty) beeps, you can do one of the following: 1) ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2009/05/04/turn-off-console-beep-on-ubuntu-904/ The past week has given me major troubles.  I was tasked with performing a restore of a large database from our offsite storage.  Upon getting the tapes back I found that their indexes were no longer available and I would need to read them in from the tapes...there were only ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2009/03/20/how-good-is-your-backup/ We've had a few customers and Open users posting about problems with machine accounts trying to access Samba shares and getting denied with: smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(439) Username DOM\COMPUTER1$ is invalid on this system The "$" at the end of the account name means it's a computer account, not a user. We're seeing this ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2009/03/05/samba-on-likewise-open-errors-with-machine-accounts/ aka: Technology by Voodoo, Information Technology by Voodoo, Troubleshooting by Voodoo, Administration by Voodoo, Troubleshooting by Faith, etc. The act of "trusting" that a computer will do something every time the same way, only because it did the last 2 times you tried it. The alternative is to actually learn what the ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2009/02/17/it-by-voodoo/ I just finished my upgrade from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 this past week (since I had downtime from work, I could afford to break things for a few days).  The upgrade went great, and I'll write about it shortly, once I get used to the newness. Anyways; Workstation 6.5 has been ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2009/01/02/vmware-workstation-and-ubuntu-810/ In the Windows world, tools like Group Policy, System Center Configuration Manager, and DesktopAuthority, among others, have been around for 8 or more years to allow fast simple deployment of software and updates to remote computers, or force tasks to be run on remote computers. For the Unix/Linux world, there doesn't ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/11/22/managing-large-numbers-of-systems/