January 26, 2012
When doing client side NAT’ing on Checkpoint boxes and using manual NAT creations, IPSO is probably the most straight forward: Assume you have the NAT rule in the policy Go to Voyager; add a proxy arp entry But on SPLAT I found I had to do the following; Assume you… [...]
January 5, 2012
Here is one method of how to integrate a Ruby on Rails application and a PHP application or even just static HTML using Apache webserver. One reason for doing this could be (in this website’s case) that your main website application is Rails but you want to use WordPress or… [...]
October 16, 2011
Slightly strange ZFS problem on a FreeBSD 7.3 box recently – booted up to find the ZPOOL degraded complaining about an unavailable drive – but yet still reading and writing to it. The error message was; One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing… [...]
October 16, 2011
It seems the normally so reliable Ubuntu linux based operating system is becoming more and more unstable, looks nice but I have had a few problems recently. One such problem being the recently released upgrade to 11.10 which brings in quite a few changes, both with the Unity GUI and… [...]
June 27, 2011
I read a very interesting post from one of the founders of github.com who had heard a great metaphor for Agile development; Imagine you’re tasked with building a computer controlled gun that can accurately hit a target about 50 meters distant. That is the only requirement. One way to do… [...]
June 18, 2011
Recently the drive containing the operating system for my home NAS server died (thats 2 drives in 2 months !) and so I thought it was a good opportunity to upgrade to the new (few months old) FreeNAS v8 – it lasted less than 24 hours because its just not… [...]
June 17, 2011
Here is proof as to why you should add a slash ( / ) to the end of a URL to speed up your site, nothing new here, its common knowledge but doesn’t appear to be implemented too commonly. Let me expand a bit, when you visit a website in… [...]
May 4, 2011
Skip to instructions Update: Due to more bugs found with VMware Server and the unlikely event that they will be resolved I have since switched to VMware Player on Ubuntu. Instructions here for installing Server are still valid at the time of writing this (June 2011). Recently, to my mistake,… [...]
April 29, 2011
I recently suffered a failure of one drive in a mirrored pair attached to a ZFS zpool and have had to replace it, I decided to take this oppurtunity to replace the whole mirror to increase the size available. The restrictions being here that there were no spares running and… [...]
March 6, 2011
If you are running a VMware product on Ubuntu (or another Linux host I suspect) then you may encounter a problem when trying to mount/attach a USB device plugged into your host, to one of your virtual machines. The error message I was getting was “Remote USB device error: Remote… [...]