Category Archives: technical

Noteworthy technical issues that were encountered and resolved.

Self Signed Certificate for Exchange 2010

Posted on December 6, 2011 by rhuie

For those who are having the same problem as I am. Neither IIS nor Exchange Management Console was able to generate a Self Signed Certificate with my external internet hostname. i.e. mail.microsoft.local. The point in having a correctly hostnamed ssl … Continue reading →

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ssh without password

Posted on November 20, 2011 by rhuie

Been remoting to various servers recently rectifying load balancing. This saves me digging around passwords for each server. more time to do real work. on local do: ssh-keygen -t rsa cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh username@destination.server.local -p 22 ‘cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys’ … Continue reading →

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Selectively checking out subfolders with SVN

Posted on October 17, 2011 by rhuie

Recently encountered a need to archive some large source code but also only needing to tend to a small subfolder. the trick is to do a checkout with zero depth, only retrieving the root folder’s file and subfolder and nothing … Continue reading →

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Free Conference call setup. Xbox Party Chat for PS3

Posted on October 5, 2011 by rhuie

A few years back I had setup an asterisk server and even bought a compatible zaptel modem card for incoming/outgoing calling. At the time, I had wanted to provide a solution for PS3 party/lobby chat, a major advantage the Xbox … Continue reading →

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MySQL WorkBench importing GeoIp in CSV

Posted on March 5, 2011 by rhuie

Not much mention of this working. alot of the info on the net is out of date. Importing CSV is possible through WorkBench. DROP TABLE IF EXISTS location; CREATE TABLE location( locId int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, country char(2) NOT NULL, … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone Tethering for Samsung Focus on Bell network.

Posted on February 22, 2011 by rhuie

Finally figured out how to get tethering working with the Samsung Focus on Bell network. Most of the information around the net is for at&t/Cingular. For Bell, you need to add an apn pda.bell.ca into the GPRS connection settings. also … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone as a barebones phone

Posted on February 8, 2011 by rhuie

I have a Samsung Focus i917 as a test unit. First off the hardware is great. The screen’s beautiful (AMOLED), battery life is typical, with only the memory card (perminant) pairing being the only issue. The OS however feels lacking. … Continue reading →

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persistent port forwarding

Posted on October 21, 2010 by rhuie

one of the challenges I’ve had to deal with regularly is port blocking. there is ways around this if you have full access to a server. you’ll need autossh and screen installed but the jist of the command you want … Continue reading →

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My Portable Photo Album System VS Facebook Photo Export

Posted on October 14, 2010 by rhuie

Turns out Facebook is finally offering a way to export their data into zip. With this feature out it competes directly with my Portable Photo Album System offering a Packaged file that comprises of video/photo/css/xml all into a zip. I … Continue reading →

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Secure file transfer with resuming.

Posted on August 18, 2010 by rhuie

I recently came across an office internet feed that was unreliable. SCP has no resuming capability so I went looking around the net for an answer. The following command works with different ssh port. I couldn’t get the speed limit … Continue reading →

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