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Upgraded my little old Shuttle XPC-SK41G from an AMD Duron 1.3ghz to an XP 2600+ and couldnt get the speed up above 1150mhz after much digging about realised that the FSB is set to 100mhz by a jumper, it is jumper JP2, you need to remove it and the FSB then runs at 133mhz and got a speed of 1536mhz… Continue reading Shuttle XPC-SK41G with XP2600+
Recently try to upgrade the server and firmware on my MP101 and came across the following.. Now I run the server software on a windows 2003 server on a VIA 1.2ghz machine, now its the only windows machine that is on all the time but for some reason I couldnt get the firmware to upgrade to the latest version on… Continue reading MP101 Latest Server running with 2 network cards on Windows 2003
When using the drivers for the Sangoma S518 ADSL card on the VIA EPIA architecture you must install them using the following ./Setup install –arch=i386 otherwise on connecting to the isp you will get a kernel panic and the whole machine will freeze
Kept getting the message ‘Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client’ after upgrading the mysql server to a newer version than the client odbc driver and after much trawling found that you have to update the mysql user table to hold the password in the old format like so.. UPDATE mysql.userSET password=OLD_PASSWORD(‘somepassword’)WHERE user=’someuser’AND host=’somehost’;… Continue reading Unable to connect to newer mysql database – Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client
Trying to get libpng and libjpeg support ?? You will need to install the developer versions of the libraries, on Fedora the easiest way is to use up2date ie. up2date libjpeg-devel and up2date libpng-devel this will install it then the configure for the makefile of libgd will pick the libraries up and install support for them. Also dont use the… Continue reading GD Lib with Bugzilla
Looking at my hosting site I noticed there is quite a lot of traffic looking for how to reset the open source project webalizer so here is what I do to reset it. Basically under Fedora the webalizer package is installed in /var/lib/webalizer, and in there (if you have run it already) will be two files webalizer.current and webalizer.hist you… Continue reading How to Reset Webalizer
Okay fresh install of PHP and got this error … Error registering XML parser services. Then realised that the howto is slightly out of date as you need to install the 1.4 java runtime not the 1.3 as the how to says. Also I then couldnt figure out how to get eclipse to pick up the php plugin as the… Continue reading PHP, Eclipse, PTTY and CVS
Ok next problem that I bumped into today while trying to install PHP5 on Apache2. In the php instructions it tells you to use the –with-apxs2 and point that to the apxs file. Now the standard install of Fedora 3 doesnt install this file for you, so you need to install the httpd-devel package. This can be done easily using… Continue reading Apache2 and PHP5 and missing apxs file on Fedora Core 3
Ok now next problem that I ran into in trying to get qmail running on the distrubution is that checkpassword-0.90 doesnt want to compile and looking on the web there is 1 arabic website explaining how to get around this which I cant understand but with again more pain I have finally cracked it. In the source directory of checkpassword… Continue reading Checkpassword-0.90 Compilation Error on Fedora Core 3
Now for a long long time I have been perplexed by why my firewall never works on my linux boxes on initial boot. When you run iptables –list is shows all the rules but never works until you run it again under the root account. Now I finally got around to finding out why and its because the ipv4 forwarding is… Continue reading IPTABLES doesn't work on initial boot