Good News Everyone.  I have my Cisco router working with my ADSL2+ connection. Well my Netgear router finally gave up the ghost… no smoke, just a few blown capacitors.  It has had a good life, it was originally bought as an ADSL1 router and firmware flashed to be ADSL2+ capable.  Well this forced me to [...]

On the 18th of July, I installed a new server, it reminded me how good it is to have a plan going into a server install/replacement.  Things seemed to go fairly well.  I set up the computer in an out of the way location with a network connection.  I began the file transfer, while that [...]

Is there an easy way to build a new computer, copy all the files and user settings from a previous computer and test all the programs?  It has occurred to me that this is something that seems to be fairly time consuming.  Setting up a Windows XP machine is fairly straight forward, put in the [...]

Good News Everyone. My mail server is working. It did take an uninstall and a reinstall but I got there. The good news is that I am getting quicker at installing and configuring the Zimbra Software. I didn’t actually find the cause of the original issue, but after the reinstall it has all worked out [...]

Just a quick update for the Useful commands page. SSH The scp Command to copy from a remote server to a local host: scp username@sourcehost:sourcefile /localfolder/destinationfile or scp username@sourcehost:sourcefile username@destinationhost:/localfolder/destinationfile Port Forwarding Allows encrypted data streams between 2 hosts. All traffic coming to port 1234 on the client will be forwarded to port 23(can be [...]

So close yet so far,  I have installed Zimbra on a server at home to take care of my email and messaging requirements.  The install is very easy, it only takes about 30 mins, most of that time was spent waiting for things to load on the old box that I have chosen to test [...]

I thought I was taking a break from working on my servers for a while, but instead I have been working on a plugin, it is called “Pause and Ponder”.  This plugin allows me enter a Title and some Text and have it display as a widget.  I bet you are thinking that isn’t a [...]

Well I have got my act together and configured a mail server for my domain. I am not handing out addresses just yet. I do have a couple of minor things I want to learn about my mail service before I announce to everyone that they can send me emails. It is always easier to [...]

I am moving forward again… Yes! This weekend I attempted to setup a DNS and with some success I think, I have made it! In the previous weeks I have experienced some set backs as you may have read in a previous post. So after giving myself some time off and not focusing too heavily [...]

Two weeks of set backs.  I am starting to find it hard to believe but it has been one set back after another for the last 2 weeks.  The latest in the long list is a theme not applying properly, which caused my Blog to go missing.  Yep I changed my theme and when I [...]