Update 27/02/2011: Added IR control and password passthrough.I’ve recently put together a CCTV solution using a few Foscam FI8918W cameras and the excellent ZoneMinder software. This is all running on a CentOS 5.5 virtual machine under Hyper-V (more on this setup another time). The Foscam cameras have pan, tilt and the ability to set and…
ZoneMinder Control Script for Foscam FI8918W
By Howard | Published February 26th, 2011Exchange 2010 SP1 breaks pre-SP1 Transport Agents
By Howard | Published December 21st, 2010I’d encountered a few anomalies with the Exchange 2010 server over the last few weeks, so took the opportunity yesterday to upgrade it to SP1 and the latest Update Rollup. This revealed an annoying feature of – or bug in – Microsoft’s code that loads Transport Agents causing my RegExCatchAll Agent to crash. I also…
Run YOURLS on IIS 7
By Howard | Published August 23rd, 2010If you’re running YOURLS on an IIS 7 box you’ll need the correct settings in your web.config to perform the URL Rewriting. An example web.config with the correct settings is below.
RegExCatchAll Transport Agent for Exchange 2007/2010
By Howard | Published May 29th, 2010How moving email services to an Exchange Server revealed email suffix matching as a missing feature, and how to implement that feature using a Transport Agent.
Fix orphaned SQL Server users
By Howard | Published March 11th, 2010I always forget this in between using it, so for the benefit of future Howard, here’s how to fix orphaned users resulting from restoring a SQL database to a different machine.
IIS7 web.config fun
By Howard | Published March 8th, 2010I spent some time last weekend migrating the Work Avoidance site away from Gradwell and onto a dedicated virtual server from MEMSET. Since this involved a move to a Windows box away from UNIX hosting, I had to configure in IIS7 some of the settings I had in the .htaccess under the UNIX host.
Java Update 13 breaks Cisco SDM 2.5
By Howard | Published April 22nd, 2009Another post in a series designed to help Future-Howard work out why things have broken. If you install Java 6 Update 13 and then try and log into Cisco SDM 2.5 it will fail. The SDM console will not load. I found I had to go back to Java 6 Update 6 (available at the…
LDAP Query based on account SID in VBscript
By Howard | Published January 9th, 2008This is a bit of code I wish I’d found sooner. There is a – it seems mostly undocumented – feature of the ldap provider in Server 2003 that allows you to form an ldap query just on the SID of an account: bindSid = "LDAP://<sid =" & SID & ">" set oVal = GetObject(bindSid)…
Graphing Counter-Strike Source FPS/Users in MRTG on Windows
By Howard | Published December 4th, 2007In my last post, you discovered my obsession for generating statistics on my network usage and my use of MRTG to draw pretty little graphs. Writing that post got me thinking about my Counter-Strike server, and what data I could usefully graph from it. A bit of Googling led me to this page where a…
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