According to a few separate Dell technicians I’ve encountered Dell laptops are apparently really finicky when they have mixed memory installed, be it mixed vendor or size pairs. Something to consider if you’re troubleshooting a hardware or even software problem for which you’ve tried all other avenues.
Mac OS X Tiger auto-generates its edu.mit.Kerberos file when you use the Active Directory plugin in Directory Access. Here’s what it considers the lay of the land Kerberos-wise from what it can cull from Active Directory.
Because I am lazy I rarely package my installed-from-source software into an rpm or deb file. This comes back to bite me later as there are all sorts of problems with managing source installs that packaging solves: uninstalling, version control, distributing updates, you name it.
Since I won’t compromise my laziness I have turned to checkinstall as of late. It has worked wonders. The application intervenes in the final make install step, watches the build process for you, creates a spec file based on what occurs and your own custom information, and rolls the package of your choice. It couldn’t be easier; this should be standard in every distro.
Netatlas often moves to slow for me, so I created a Firefox/Camino Search Keyword. Firefox doesn’t make it entirely obvious what the string is being passed if you create the Search Keyword via a right click on the search box though. Since Camino doesn’t have this automatic function you need to know this string in order to create the Search Keyword manually. I just set mine up for wallbox serial number searches, but I’m sure you could find a lot more options for keywords.
https://webdb.princeton.edu/dbtoolbox/query.asp?qname=
MasterFindWallbox&WallboxSerial=%s
(FYI - I’ve word-wrapped this link for better legibility.)
If you take a look at your Dell warranty status for a given system on the Premier Support pages you may see a provider column with the three letter code UNY. I assumed that was an indicator for the Dell telephone support people that we have a warranty repair site on-campus. Its actually an indicator that Unisys is contracted to do their repair work. If you have someone from Dell come out, its actually an employee of Unisys that does the repair.
I was installing a server with CentOS and openLDAP today and couldn’t get the LDAP server to start out of the box. I ran the slapd command manually at a debug level 1 like so:
/usr/sbin/slapd -d2
Even though the server wasn’t configured for TLS yet, the server seemed to be looking for a directory that would hold the certificates. The relevant error was:
TLS: could not load client CA list
Once I created the directory /etc/openldap/cacerts the server process was happy and started up in its default state.
Using Samba, 2nd Edition, HTML version is installed with Mac OS Tiger. Sure its available online, but its nice to have the local reference ready. Now why isn’t that in my Spotlight search path?
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