Archive for category Sysadmin
Updating phpBB
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on April 24, 2012
I’m one of two people who helps with sys admin tasks for the webcomic Twokinds – astute readers will recognise the comic name because I ended up doing the RSS and archive scripts for Tom too. But recently I decided to update phpBB and the VPS. Get everything up to date wherever possible. The VPS […]
Cloudflare/Dreamhost: Least surprise, maximum confusion indeed.
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on April 8, 2012
tl;dr – In summary Dreamhost isn’t pointing domain nameservers at Cloudflare. They’re using an system of CNAMEs to redirect people to Cloudflare, hence the necessity of “Add WWW”. Dreamhost is still your nameserver. If you’re using Cloudflare and you’re moving back to Dreamhost, or were using Cloudflare, change your nameservers back to ns1.dreamhost.com and ns2.dreamhost.com to keep […]
Dual-booting with Dropbox
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on March 15, 2012
Or, how to not waste your hard drive space when you’ve got dropbox installed on two OSes on the same drive.
Ready for IPv6?
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on March 7, 2012
In anticipation of signing up for fiber internet service at the next IT show (tomorrow!), I upgraded the two WRT54GL routers that provide internet access to the house with an IPv6 ready build of Tomato. The build’s called Toastman, and finding the correct version wasn’t trivial, but I’ve got DHCPv6 related stuff appearing in Windows […]
Rebuilding my desktop
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on December 11, 2011
So… I managed to get annoyed enough enough with my desktop slowing down that I decided to just give up and (re)install Windows 7 to an extra old hard drive. (And then muck around with partitions to get the new improved system back on the faster drive. In retrospect, should have done the move first. […]
WSUS on non-domain systems
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on November 4, 2011
One issue with my shiny new WSUS toy that I did find was that, in theory, only Windows editions with access to Group Policy (namely, those editions labelled Professional and higher) can have the Windows Update server URL set. Of course, in practical use, people have found a way. Whether it’s manually creating registry keys […]
New toy: WSUS
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on November 4, 2011
So I got WinSrv2008R2 free, courtesy of Dreamspark, and I’ve been messing around with it. I was thinking of creating a few Win7 VMs to mess around with Domains, Group Policy and the like, and one of the things that I found was some functionality called Windows Server Update Services. Turns out WSUS is a […]