ICH9R Raid Recovery
You know how everyone would tell you to not use RAID0 unless the data you store on it is worthless? And do you know how the same people would most likely tell you to never put your operating system on...
View ArticleIncreased Screen-Space for Ubuntu Server VM
I often run Ubuntu server installations in VirtualBox. Sadly, this only provides you with the default console window. So most of the time I would additionally connect with Putty into the same VM, so...
View ArticleThe mystery of the broken OpenVPN certificate
Someone complained to me about the following error message when trying to use OpenVPN to connect to a VPN: Cannot load certificate file error:0906D06C: PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:...
View ArticleSelf-updating Bash Script
Note: There is a revised version of this script available. While working on the typo3scripts project, I wanted to implement a self-updating feature into each of the scripts as that seemed most...
View ArticleCheck Write Permissions for Folder Hierachcy
While working on a bash script, I wanted to check if I could rm -rf a folder before actually attempting it and flushing the console with tons of write permission error messages. Upon failing to find...
View ArticleIntegrate Progress Indicator in Console Output
I recently tried to use pv in a bash script so that it wouldn’t interfere with my concept of communicating overall progress to the user. When I usually like to do is to echo -n a description of the...
View ArticleSafely updating TYPO3 extensions
A difference between the originally installed version and the current was detected! If you have ever read that warning in the TYPO3 extension manager, you know exactly how annoying it can be to find...
View ArticleSelf-updating Bash Script Revised
I recently posted an approach for a self-updating bash script. Shortly after using it in production, I noticed a critical shortcoming. Due to the simple way in which I implemented my update checking...
View ArticleHow to fix failing language pack updates in TYPO3
If you update language packs through the TYPO3 extension manager, it can happen that it will mark the update as “failed”, but if you check for updates again, it tells you there are no updates...
View ArticleError code 600 when viewing Autodiscover.xml WTF?
So you’re trying to set up the Exchange Autodiscovery but it just won’t work? You’re checking your autodiscover URL http://exchange.contoso.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml but all you’re seeing it...
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