by ds | May 20, 2014 | Administration
Last Updated on 2014-05-20. Ubuntu 12.10 distros and above do not support the smbmount command any more to connect to Windows network shares. Instead, use the “mount” command (run “apt-get cifs-utils” first): Old: smbmount //some/remote/dir...
by ds | May 20, 2014 | Administration
Last Updated on 2014-05-20. For monitoring the health state of common Windows Software RAIDs, I use a script from this site. Windows Server 2012 / R2 and Windows 8 / 8.1 now offer the usage of Storage Spaces, which are more flexible than the other Windows RAID types....
by ds | May 13, 2014 | Administration
Last Updated on 2014-05-13. With the last Ubuntu releases, the included Apache and WordPress upgrades caused me to do more and more workarounds to get everything up working after doing the upgrade. Scenario Initially starting a few years ago with Ubuntu 11.x, I...
by ds | May 10, 2014 | Administration
Last Updated on 2014-05-10. DBTCP is a Linux Client / Windows Server solution to access ODBC connections. Unfortunately, there has been no update since 2004, but with some modifications, v0.1.18a is working with current Ubuntu / Apache / PHP versions. Download and...
by ds | May 9, 2014 | Software
Last Updated on 2014-05-09. Problem You upgraded manually from OpenElec 3.2.x to 4.0. After the upgrade you are not able to go into standby mode. Reason The OE / XBMC developers distinguish now between a “real” hard drive (e.g. internal SSD) or using USB...
