Dropbox – Windows, Linux, Apple and Dropbox Portable (USB) Installation
KB ID 0000409 Problem You would like to sync your files/folders between more than one machine? Dropbox, is a service that lets you keep files in “The Cloud” and synchronise them across multiple machines and platforms. It’s one of those things that once you start to use it you wonder what you did before you had it. Simply put it’s like having a USB drive that you don’t need to carry around with you, and...
Rename / Change all File Extensions In a Folder and All Subfolders Recursively
KB ID 0000896 Problem I long time ago this site was hosted in my dining room, on a PC under my desk. I was running Windows and IIS. When I moved the site to a hosted Apache Linux server, I discovered that Linux is a little more rigid on its rules for file extensions. For example in Windows .JPG and .jpg is the same thing, but on a Linux box that’s NOT the case. As I’ve used the Windows Snipping Tool a lot in the past my older...
Allow a Server to “Relay” Through Microsoft Exchange
KB ID 0000542 Problem Back in the early days of email, just about all mail servers let you relay mail though them. That was fine until someone worked out you could then get someone else to send out your “spam”, and they would look like the guilty party. Even today people misconfigure their Exchange servers and make them an open relay. But what happens if you have a particular server or machine that you want to let use your...
Connecting Evolution Mail Client to Exchange 2010 (and Exchange 2007)
KB ID 0000378 Problem Out of the box Evolution can only connect to Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003, this is because it uses OWA to connect, when Exchange 2007 was released, the way OWA was presented changed a great deal. So if you try and connect to a newer version of Exchange it will error. (Before you email in, I know in 2010, its now called Web App not OWA). But there’s nothing to stop you connecting to Exchange 2007 and...
GNS3 – Initial Setup, Adding Routers, Hosts, and ASA Firewalls
KB ID 0001079 Problem I dip into GNS3 every so often, (depending on what I’m working on). And each time I install it, I spend just as long remembering how to set it up, as I do using it! So, if for no other reason than I can use this page as a reference in future, here’s how to get it up and running.</p? Solution Note: At time of writing the latest version is 1.3.6</p? 1. Download GNS3, I usually accept all the...