Posted in Geekery on Oct 28th, 2009
I’ve had Evolution hang on start up a few times lately, I keep forgetting what I’ve done to fix it so I’m noting it here. All I’ve needed to do is to kill evolution-data-server and try to start Evolution again, so to fix this issue: 1killall evolution-data-server-2.28
Posted in Geekery on Oct 8th, 2009
Apple Remote Desktop allows you to graphically administer remote OS X machines, including OS X Server. Apple uses some custom encryption over the top of the standard VNC protocol so if you are connecting from a Linux client using vncviewer you’ll get the following error message: Server did not offer supported security type To set [...]
Posted in Geekery on Sep 10th, 2009
As a proof of concept, yesterday I moved our Confluence installation to Solaris under VMWare from it’s current home on a Linux box. I won’t go into the background as to why I was doing this (most people would be shocked hearing I would move anything from Linux!) but the reason it was a proof [...]
Posted in Geekery on Sep 4th, 2009
It was harder than it should have been to find the URL to use for the OpenID provided by your Google Account, so for future reference, enter this in the address box of OpenID enabled sites: 1https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id
Posted in Geekery on Aug 25th, 2009
I’m running a proof of concept at work of the Google Search Appliance (GSA). Work’s very much a Microsoft Windows shop and for the demo I wanted the SMB search results to link to the files on the SMB share, not the GSA proxy that is the default. You can hack this with this small [...]
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