Emails generated by our applications were displaying universal time instead of a user’s local time when viewed in Thunderbird. Our servers use universal time. The emails we send to our users include a date header with UTC. Other email clients automatically convert this to the user’s local time. I compared the date header in our messages to date […]
We maintain a small outbound Squid proxy/cache server for our VPN users. The Squid3 service on Debian 7 (Wheezy) died. When we restarted the service, it would immediately termiate with these errors: swap.state.new: (122) Disk quota exceeded FATAL: storeDirOpenTmpSwapLog: Failed to open swap log. Squid Cache (Version 3.1.20): Terminated abnormally. The Squid service runs in a […]
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 […]