Tumblelog by Soup.io
Newer posts are loading.
You are at the newest post.
Click here to check if anything new just came in.

September 30 2010

davidfsmith
19:19

Back to the shop floor*

So with one of my guys in Amsterdam and the other deciding his cold is man-flu I’m HelpDesk, no really stop laughing at the back! I’ve been manning the ticketing system and picking up the phone to help users who … Continue reading →
Tags: YouCouldn'tMakeItUp Broken Fail HellDesk Tech

September 21 2010

davidfsmith
20:03

New Home

(written ages ago, but never posted) So after a lot of doing nothing I’ve finally moved my site, nothing wrong with the old hosting company I’ve been using for the last 10 years, just that the level of complexity they … Continue reading →
Tags: Life Server Tech Wordpress NothingToSeeHere Theme

August 28 2010

davidfsmith
19:28

BT Openzone

So is it just me, or is having access to BT Openzone with my iPhone as useful as a chocolate fireguard, I’ve never managed to get a working connection using BT Openzone, in fact the first thing I do when … Continue reading →
Tags: Broken Life Tech BTOpenZone Fail iPhone

April 07 2010

davidfsmith
08:39

Seriously ?

People fall for this shit ???

From: UK National Lottery HQ Subject: Notice!! Form the National Lottery HQ. UK Date: 7 April 2010 09:33:33 GMT+01:00 Reply-To: diliverycompany@gmail.com Return-Path: Envelope-To: Delivery-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:33:36 +0100 Received: from mail17.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net ([159.134.118.216]) by server1.kdaws.net with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzQhc-0004f4-0D for ; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:33:36 +0100 Received: (qmail 25221 messnum 4285939 invoked from [...]

Tags: Broken Tech YouCouldn'tMakeItUp Fail Spam

March 15 2010

davidfsmith
10:16

Not so much the tools, more the user

So this blog, if not dead is certainly on its knees watching its own blood seeping into the ground… and I’ve been meaning to post stuff up, there is certainly plenty going on, but there is also plenty that I don’t feel I can write about for various reasons… and for this last reason I’ve [...]

Tags: Life Pointless Tech Nell time passes Website

February 14 2010

davidfsmith
17:27

Zimbra Upgrade (Take Two)

Ok going from 6.0.2 -> 6.0.5 NE on RHEL 4.x (Yes I know that the next major version won’t support 4.x) and I was hoping for a nice smooth upgrade, the previous SSL Comercial cert problems now showing as fixed in the bugtracker, however at the end of the process ...
Tags: Server Tech Broken Email Zimbra

January 13 2010

davidfsmith
20:01

Why?

did no one tell me the old theme was dark (obvious) stylish (well to me) but totally unusable… Theme hunting begins again, back to a default one for now.
Tags: Broken Tech Wordpress Theme Website

January 10 2010

davidfsmith
20:28

VMWare Server Build

Well with the snow came the abuse of the company VPN (will post more about that later) and some sofa / server time. The least shocking element was the amount of work I could get down with a 3 year old and 6 week old in the house, easier to work ...
Tags: Server Tech VMWare

December 05 2009

davidfsmith
20:56

Migration Time

So it was time to replace the home Mac Mini, it had done sterling work as the main home machine serving as a home for all of our photos, music and used for general surfing, but it was certainly slowing down, the upgrade to Snow Leopard had gone well and ...
Tags: Storage Tech iSCSI NothingToSeeHere OSX

November 24 2009

davidfsmith
09:35

Nothing to see here

So this morning was my fourth attempt to update one of the SonicWall units, I was migrating from a Pro 2040 (now EOL) to one of the shiny new NSA 2400 units, on paper it looked easy. Update NSA 2400 to latest firmware, import config from Pro 2040, however this being ...
Tags: Network Tech NothingToSeeHere SonicWall

November 22 2009

davidfsmith
12:53

Zimbra upgrade

Note: I originally posted this on a different website, but have since re-purposed that site, having had this post help me out twice I figure it was worth keeping UPDATE: Bug 41683 is now showing as fixed in 6.0.4 So last night was the chosen time to upgrade the Zimbra ...
Tags: Server Tech Broken Email Zimbra
Older posts are this way If this message doesn't go away, click anywhere on the page to continue loading posts.
Could not load more posts
Maybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...
Just a second, loading more posts...
You've reached the end.