Split Giant ISO Into Smaller Files

Written by bsdman on 02.01.2010 | Linux

OK, so I uploaded a 3GB ISO file to my site for future downloads. Unfortunately for me, whenever I attempted to download the file I was met by:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /path/to/file/nameoffile.iso on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Dumb. [...]

VMWare Server Ubuntu 9.10

Written by bsdman on 02.01.2010 | Linux

OK, I had to install VMWare Server 2.0.2-203138 onto a 9.10 fully-up-to-date 32bit server. 9.04 and before it was easy, but there’s something added onto 9.10 to make it a little more difficult to install.
What we’ll be doing:
Update your server
I first downloaded the vmware-server from vmware.com.
Create a script called vmware-server-2.0.x-kernel-2.6.31-14-install.sh
Run the script
Really? 4 [...]

Purple Pidgin Plugin Pack

Written by bsdman on 01.27.2010 | Linux

That’s a lot of P’s!
After months of using (and really liking) the purple plugin pack for pidgin on my Windows machine, I wanted to get it working on my Linux machine as well.
HP Laptop running Ubuntu 9.10 x64 fully up-to-date (2.6.31-17-generic)
Pidgin version 2.6.2
All I did was:
sudo apt-get install pidgin-plugin-pack
Then all of the plugins were installed [...]

FreeNAS Slow File Copy

Written by bsdman on 01.14.2010 | Linux

I recently built a fairly nice NAS system for a customer:
0.7 Khasadar (revision 4919)
2.5GHz Dual Core Pentium
4GB DDR2 PC1066
5x hot swap 2TB SATA
10/100/1000 Intel Pro NIC
10/100/1000 Full duplex switch connection
After formatting the drives in SoftRAID 5 (1.8TB x 4 = 7.2TB – 5% for defragmentation = 6.84TB available), I started to backup many of their [...]

Outlook Auto Complete NK2

Written by bsdman on 01.13.2010 | Microsoft

Have you ever noticed how great the auto complete function is for Outlook? Just start typing a name and all the contacts that you’ve ever emailed in the past will auto show up. That allows you to select from the list – which is especially helpful when you’ve forgotten part of someone’s name [...]

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients

Written by bsdman on 01.07.2010 | Microsoft

Undeliverable NDR:
Several users were complaining that whenever they’d send a calendar invite to a specific person that they would get an NDR back saying that a user was not found in the organization. Unfortunately the user that does not exist was not in the original calendar invite.
Server is 2003 Enterprise running Exchange 2003 Standard. [...]