Bytes of wisdom in a world of networks
For years, one of my businesses has been a regular user of Wise (formerly TransferWise). Wise is a financial service that lets you send and receive money across currencies, often at a better rate and lower fee than traditional banks. Sounds great, right? Until it isn’t. This is our story – a sobering, frustrating, and
If you’re running an ASUS router as your CPE, forming the connection between you and your ISP, set this option in your WAN settings to “No”! This infuriating “Enable VPN+DHCP Connection” toggle, which is set to “Yes” by default. This is a major inconvenience when you are using an ISP which offers both PPPoE &
Today I ran across an issue when creating a new Addon Domain in a cPanel account, which spewed out this error: Cpanel::AdminBin::_get_cpwrapd_connection could not connect to /usr/local/cpanel/var/cpwrapd.sock It appears that this error can also occur when adding subdomains, parked domains or even MySQL databases. While I’m not 100% sure of the root cause of the
With the release of the UniFi Video product as an upgrade to Ubiquiti’s existing AirVision product, the version 2 AirVision NVR units need to be upgraded to the UniFi Video software (version 3.0.5 at time of writing) Upgrading your AirVision NVR system is relatively straight-forward and requires just a few commands to be entered via SSH.
Wake on Lan is a useful technology to be able to start a machine from a remote computer (on the same network) This tutorial assumes your network interface is running on eth0, if your interface isn’t eth0, replace this with your network interface. You can determine this by running an ifconfig. Firstly, we’ll install “ethtool”
A small annoyance I discovered this morning when finalising an IP Migration on one of our cPanel servers, was that Apache failed to start. After scratching my head and poking around for a small amount of time, I managed to get everything back up and running.
One of the most annoying things I find about trying to export from Outlook Express when migrating to a new computer is the fact that the Import/Export functions under the File menu are useless unless you have Outlook or Exchange. Luckily, there is a solution. If you don’t have Outlook or Exchange on the computer
Setting up a new computer today, I came across an annoying problem which none of my team had seen before. Luckily we managed to find a solution. If you’re setting up a new PC with a non-standard RAID card (meaning you’ll need to install the drivers manually using the “Load Driver” function and your motherboard/RAID