Ramblings about working in I.T

  • Nextcloud: Data directory accessible from the internet

    Nextcloud: Data directory accessible from the internet

    If you’ve recently upgraded to NC 29 then you may be seeing the following warning in your Administration overview: It took me quite a bit of head-scratching and searching to web to figure out what’s going on as my “data” directory was indeed outside of the webroot for NC. It turns out that when NC…

  • Moving a CentOS 5 server to new hardware

    Moving a CentOS 5 server to new hardware

    Well, today was fun. We had some old drives with an installation of CentOS 5 on them that needed to be booted up so we could pull some data off, sounds easy right? no. It goes like this – Insert old drives into new shiny chassis Power on said chassis Watch the bios and grub…

  • Exim/Postfix too many connections

    Exim/Postfix too many connections

    Is your monitoring system telling you that that your MTA has too many connections? Odds are that someone is having a laugh and is holding too many connections open. I’ve put together a little command that should identify the culprit: Each IP should be listed by the number of connections it is making, find the…

  • Razer Blackwidow 2012 Legacy

    Razer Blackwidow 2012 Legacy

    For literally years now I’ve had two major issues with my 2012 Razer Blackwidow. Luckily I found this post on Reddit with a link to a Firmware update for my Keyboard. Direct Link to F/W update here After running the update things seem to have calmed down, I will need to monitor this over a couple…

  • Apache & WordPress Permalinks

    Apache & WordPress Permalinks

    So configuring Apache on Debian turns out to be a dream – Why can’t every distribution be this easy? Configuring PermaLinks in WordPress requires you to set ‘AllowOverride’ to: ‘All’ which was just a simple case of – Change this: To this:

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