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Frustrating Experience With Out ‘n’ About: A £1000 Order Review

My Experience With Out ’n’ About: A Surprisingly Frustrating Journey for an Almost £1000 Order I do not usually write posts like this but my recent experience with Out ’n’ About deserves a proper write up. When you spend close to a thousand pounds on a pushchair setup you expect the service to match the product. Instead I found myself dealing ... Read More

Computing, Software

APISCP – postfix issues

August 15, 2022

So a few days ago, the Q’s Place web server ran out of space; this was related to Kopia backup caching as it couldn’t reach the remote storage server but that’s for another day! Unfortunately because of this, when I cleared the Kopia cache up and freed the required space up my mail server failed. lipwig.qsplace.co.uk ... Read More

Computing, Software

Joining an additional Zentyal server to your PDC

January 29, 2022

About a year ago I added a secondary domain controller to my AD setup, unfortunatly this died and I had to build a redeploy another. When joining this system to the PDC I saw the following issue in the zentyal.log “Unable to open tdb ‘/var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb’: Permission denied”) Could not find machine account in ... Read More

Astronomy, Computing

Adding a USB GPS device to KStars

January 29, 2022

I’ve recently been trying out KStars on a RaspberryPi 3 (I intend on using something a little more powerful later on) to help reduce the reliance on running LOOOOOONG USB cables and instead swap to ethernet. One of the issues I also wanted to solve is removing the requirement of entering my long and lat co-ordinates everytime I move the ... Read More

Computing, Hardware

Getting an OKI printer to scan to a domain shared folder

January 29, 2022

notes: Not working [2018/11/05 13:21:07.850805, 3] ../source3/auth/auth.c:178(auth_check_ntlm_password) check_ntlm_password: Checking password for unmapped user [PrintServer]\[]@[OFFICE-PRINTER] with the new password interface [2018/11/05 13:21:07.850836, 3] ../source3/auth/auth.c:181(auth_check_ntlm_password) check_ntlm_password: ... Read More

Computing, Software

Fixing a zentyal install by reinstalling

January 29, 2022

Notes Backup config Reinstall Rinstall modules Restore config Issue with keytab and samba/DNS starting via web interface 2018/11/19 00:51:06 ERROR> GlobalImpl.pm:652 EBox::GlobalImpl::saveAllModules – Failed to save changes in module dns: root command kinit -k -t /var/lib/samba/private/dns.keytab dns-patrician failed. 2018/11/19 ... Read More

Computing, Software, Storage

Thanks BareOS

January 24, 2021

Oh dear…. Sep 10, 2020 21:58:46.815 [0x7fe6d5396f80] ERROR - SQLITE3:(nil), 11, database corruption at line 65066 of [bf8c1b2b7a]Sep 10, 2020 21:58:46.815 [0x7fe6d5396f80] ERROR - SQLITE3:(nil), 11, statement aborts at 10: [select max(max(metadata_items.changed_at),max(metadata_items.resources_changed_at)) from metadata_items] database ... Read More

Computing, Software, Storage

Compiling Minio for Arm

December 20, 2017

I’ve been experimenting with Minio, which is a rather nifty S3 storage server; specifically I wanted to user a few minio servers in HA/cluster and erasure across them all. To do this requires 4-16 servers all running minio, as this is a test I decided to use Scaleway who provide hardware cloud computing for a very reasonable price. ... Read More