Stuff I Do

Went to make a change to my new linux server and entered the sudo command so that I would not have to log into the server as super user and got the following message:

username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

A momentary skip of the heartbeat as the last sentence sounds so ominous, then the realization that it is ok that this terminal session is on my own server and not someone else’s. Doot! Yeah go ahead and report me, cause I know the sysadm and he doesn’t care.

Guess I should fix the list of users who have sudo privileges now

I had to RMA the first PVR-500 I got from newegg.com and now the new one is here. First going to get a Windows drive setup with BeyondTV installed on it because it is an easy way to verify that both tuners on the card are working. Once that is confirmed, I can drop in another hard drive and start working on the MythTV install and configuration.

By the way, NewEgg’s RMA process is one of the best I have ever used. No hassle and quick service, I will be buying things from them for a long time with this kind of customer service.

Just found this new Open Source totally free magazine called O3.

On the workstation that you want to for to check in for updates, drop to the command line and type:

wuauclt.exe /detectnow

It took me a little while to get both user and computer authentication to work in a wireless security system using RADIUS authentication and certificates for both the user account and machine account. What makes this really cool is that even when a user is not logged in the machine authenticates so that updates and software packages can be installed. It also allows all user logon scripts to be run. No static keys and the way I have mine configured new keys are generated at the most every 10 minutes. A friend had asked if I had documented the process to get it to work. I had not but since have put together this document using all the documents I read to make this process work. Requirements are Windows 2003 and Windows XP and Cisco Access points.

Try the document out and let me know if it works for you or not and what parts I have wrong. This is very possible as I have joined other docs with my own documentation.

Funny how all MS file extensions come through OWA just fine but Adobe’s Acrobat files (.pdf) do not.

Here is how you allow users to download the attachment without getting the error message.

Open regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWEB\OWA
Then remove “application/pdf” from the Level2MIMETypes value (if exists.)
Add “application/pdf” to the KnownContentTypes value
You will need to restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant

The user will then need to:
Right mouse click on the link for the attachment and select SAVE TARGET AS.
Select a location where to save the file at. Such as selecting DESKTOP.
Double click on the file from where you save it to and Acrobat Reader will open up so you can view the file.

Started moving on in, boxes are still laying around and need to be unpacked as I kick around in my new digs of www.stuffido.com. I only have a couple of services up and running and poorly configured at that as I was hurrying just to get some kind of presence create here. I will need to go back through and harden down the box and clean up my configs. This is currently hosted off a little old AMD Duron 800 box sitting in dark cold corner of my basement talking to the outside world on my cable modem. Not what I would call a highly available situation so expect some outages from time to time. Looks like the DNS is already kicked in and the vast majority of the world should be able to resolve my name now.

I have a new blog of just technical stuff. This blog probably won’t get too much posted to it but it is here now so enjoy.