Can’t access \\readyshare through a UNC path but able to ping the IP address? Try this. Log into the router web based admin interface, scroll down to “UPnP” under advanced, and turn UPnP on. The router will say “please wait” (or something like that) for a minute or two. Then try accessing \\readyshare again. Worked […]
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Technical things that might help someone someday.
Do you have a HostGator shared account and you’re seeing Internal Server Errors intermittently on otherwise-working code? I have a couple of domains at HostGator (not this domain). One of them experience this issue for several days. Randomly, loading any page on the site would generate “Internal Server Error” and the message in this post […]
When installing Android apps, look closely at the permissions they are asking for. For example, OpenSignal wants to read my text/MMS messages, my call log, and my contacts. Why do they need that information? I’ve asked them; I don’t expect to get a reply, or at least a reasonable one. Probably something about “to improve […]
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Jawbone / myTalk Password Breach
Today I received an email from Jawbone explaining that their myTalk customer password list had been stolen by hackers. They say passwords were encrypted, but they do not say how they were encrypted. If they used pig latin to encrypt, then I should immediately go about ensuring that the password I used on the myTalk […]
After years of putting up with Rick and his digital photo editing services crap I think I have finally figured out a way to block these messages. Here’s the deal. You run a mail server, and you get spam every single day from Rick offering digital photo editing services. You put “We are a china […]
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SPF records and Payflow Link
EDIT – Update January 3, 2013: There was a bug in my previous SPF record below, that included “ip4:96.0.0.0/1”. That should have read “ip4:96.6.0.0/11”. Unfortunately the initial incorrect record allowed half the Internet to pass SPF tests, so it would be better to use the corrected version or edit this list to suit your tastes. […]
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Variable interpolation in Batch Files
Apparently it is possible to use variable interpolation in Windows batch files. @echo off set myVar=bob goto print_%myVar% echo ALICE :print_bob echo BOB Output is: BOB Useful for all kinds of things…
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Android sends read receipts automatically
I was surprised recently when someone responded to a read-receipt showing when I had read one of their messages. Like many others, I turned off Outlook’s option to send read receipts automatically many years ago. Since I had just changed Exchange 2010 mail providers, I assumed that I had missed this option and simply needed […]
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FVS338 dialup backup fails
If your Netgear FVS338 dialup backup is failing, you might have a firmware problem. Sometime after firmware 3.0.2-21 (and not fixed as of 3.0.7-24), the dialup interface connects and grabs an IP address – it even allows ping, traceroute, and DNS lookups from the FVS338 web interface – but it will not route any traffic […]
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Munin and High Loads
Munin, while a great monitoring tool, can be a little bit of a CPU hog. I had installed it awhile back and looked at the graphs just for fun now and then (I’m lucky, my servers are humming along pretty smoothly), but I started noticing load averages were measurably higher than they were before I […]