MAC OSX – Managing ESXi Hosts
KB ID 0001054 Problem I have made the transition to a MAC laptop pretty easily, but theres one thing thats still a pain, VMware ESXi servers! I know these days vCenter has a nice shiny web management portal, but ESXi does not. When I’m working on the test bench I usually connect using the VI client from a virtual machine running inside VMware fusion. Which works, but the performance is not brilliant, things wont move where I...
Apache Web Server – Change the Default Page
KB ID 0000882 Problem Out of the box, Apache expects your website homepage to be called index, on this site the homepage is called home, here’s how to change it. Solution 1. Connect to the server via SSH, (or open a terminal session). The file you need to edit is called httpd.conf. This server is running CentOS, so you should find that file in the /etc/httpd/conf folder. 2. I’m going to edit it with nano. 3. Locate the...
Apache is Ignoring the .htaccess file
KB ID 0000890 Problem The .htaccess file is a file that lives in a directory on a web server. Its job is to provide ‘settings’ that would normally be set in the servers httpd.conf file. You can put a .htaccess file in any directory to control the settings for that directory, (providing .htaccess override has been allowed). After having some problems the other day, I made a change to mine, then reliased the change was not...
Android AnyConnect Error
KB ID 0000537 Problem While using the Android/Cisco Anyconnect App/Client you receive the following error. Error: The secure gateway has rejected the agent’s VPN request. A New connection requires re-authentication and must be started manually. Please contact your network administrator if this problem persists. The following message was received from the security gateway: No License. Solution The most pertinent information above...
Android – Using the Cisco AnyConnect Client
KB ID 0000539 Problem You have an Android device* and you would like to create a remote VPN connection to a Cisco device running AnyConnect. Note: This is not a walkthrough on how to configure AnyConnect, for that go here. Be aware that in addition to your SSL VPN licences your Cisco ASA device also needs a “AnyConnect Mobile” license. If you do not have one you will receive this error. *Note: At time of writing...
Android – ‘Email sync is disabled’
KB ID 0000939 Problem My Galaxy Note 3 prompted me for an upgrade last week, it took me a while to notice (because I manually sync my Email) that I could no longer collect my email, every time I tried it said Email sync is disabled (account name). No amount of tweaking with my email or phone setings seemed to get it working. Solution 1. Open the notification screen (Swipe down from the top of the screen) > Select the icon shown...
Photoshop All the Toolbars Have Disappeared?
KB ID 0000192 Problem When using Photoshop you have no toolbars or palettes etc. No Toolbars – not good Solution Annoyingly simple! – Press TAB As if by magic! Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop
Photoshop – Drawing box’s
KB ID 0000203 Problem For the site I do a lot of screen shots / screen dumps for illustration purposes its good to be able to highlight thinks by being able to draw a box around them. Usually I do this with mspaint, but I finally got tired of doing half the tasks in mspaint and the rest in Photoshop, so I worked out how to do it properly. Solution 1. Assuming you have you graphic already open, create a new Layer. 2. Click the...
Photoshop – Drawing Arrows
KB ID 0000204 Problem I wrote a walkthough on drawing box’s earlier, the second thing I tend to do, is put arrows on my diagrams to point things out. Solution 1. OK, so I’ve got my graphic, and I know something about it thats not obvious at first glance. 2. So I’ll open it with Photoshop and put an arrow on it. Firstly Select the “Line tool”. 3. On the toolbar at the top select the drop down arrow next to...
Batch Resizing and Batch Renaming Images in Photoshop
KB ID 0000597 Problem I have to do this quite a lot, I take a lot of screen-shots for the site, and have to resize them down, (usually to 550 pixels) so that, they fit with the layout. In addition I scale the larger screenshots down to 900 pixels for the images I Hyperlink to. This means I spend a long time in Photoshop messing about with image sizes. The smaller of the two images you see on the site nearly always has the same name,...