Well had a brain fart today and my rndc.key file went out the window.. Not too fun as it shut down my entire DNS and a ton of domains..  So I had ot scramble to figure out how to get it back adn so i did.. Actually what I deleted was my rndc.key file but
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Well this was a bit of a nightmare and only really figured it out due to some luck Soooo, you’ve no doubt been trying a bunch of things and have ended in frustration. Let me tell you that from my experience you are going to have to install from source.. No clean neat little packages,
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So the weather applet for AWN is definitely one of the most useful of the applets.  But I haven’t used it in forever because it stopped working and would no longer connect, kept telling me that there were connectivity issues.  It’s clearly not being maintained anymore as the fix was fairly simple and cuold have
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Alright, this was a 2 two lesson that I should have blogged about the first time I encountered it but didn’t. Here’s what happened: I was settling down into bed and wanted to watch Moon before I fell asleep.  The problem was as soon as I fullscreened the movie it just went black. I could
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So after going from Firefox to Chrome and then realizing that Chrome possessed the ability to melt my entire system and slow it to a crawl like some out of control plague of cpu usage I switched to Opera.  Well opera has some good qualities but Flash is not one of them so I’ve gone
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Ok so this happens with NTFS drives sometimes if  you need to run chkdsk on the drive for a corrupt inode, improper unmounts, there’s a whole slew of reasnos.. For example my syslog today shows this: NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_read_locked_inode(): Failed with error code -5. Marking corrupt inode 0x7a036 as bad. Run chkdsk. Best
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Alright so if you are in cPanel’s File manager right now you are either 1 of 2 people. A web admin that is forced to work on a client’s server with no ftp or ssh access, in which case I feel for you man and just poured a little bit of my drink out on
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Alright so last night I did a ton of upgrades and when I went to open GIMP this morning I found that it wasn’t there.  Awesome, the upgrades apparently removed it due to some unmet dependencies.  Not to be unexpected as my Debian is a veritable mixture of stable debian, backports, one or two SID installs
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Good fun today as one of my team members sent me over a digitally signed PDF and that got me looking into how I would go about signing it back.  Up until this point I had just been putting an old fashioned signature on it and sending it out but upon further research it appears
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So another interesting sound issue which happens ALL the time and can be caused by about 4 million things and have 4 million solutions.  I’ve had this problem more than once and each time it’s something different and today is no exception. Yesterday I was having sound issues with Wine as I had just upgraded
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