I enabled Postfix Cluebringer (policyd v2) on Debian Wheezy so that I could place restrictions on customer outbound mail traffic. I disabled all modules except core and quota. I configured two quota rules (X messages/day and X MB/day). Mail was flowing. The quota status was being tracked in SQL. Everything seemed to be working fine. […]
Product Review: Sprint Home Phone Connect 2 (SHPC2) with Ting.com I recently purchased a SHPC2 for use with Ting.com. I am evaluating the product for use at residential locations and business locations with a single telephone line. My intention is to replace the existing “landline” at several dozen locations with the Home Phone Connect 2 […]
I received the following error while installing QuickBooks 2011 on Windows XP. Error 1920: Service Intuit QuickBooks FCS (QBFCService) failed to start. The service that was failing to start was actually “QBIDPService” (aka QBVSS). I tried to start the service manually via Windows Services (services.msc) but received a timeout error. I spent a while trying […]
This article describes how to successfully migrate a physical host running Windows 2000 to a Xen 3.0.3 DomU. The Xen Dom0 is running Linux CentOS 5.2 on Intel Xeon CPUs with VT extensions. Other online discussions and examples led me to believe this would NOT work unless I was using Xen 3.0.4 or later. The […]
BackupPC assumes your mobile hosts will occassionally visit your network and allows backup of those hosts while they are on your local network. But what if you need to backup mobile Windows hosts that NEVER connect to your BackupPC LAN? We will use OpenVPN to build a VPN connection between the client and the BackupPC […]