With the move of my domains to Azure instead of Dreamhost (oh, did I not mention that?), one of the things I needed to do was setup some SPF records to keep email from going into junk folders.
Now, there is a great article on creating SPF records, but those that know me know I’m not a big reader when there is a lot of text. Pictures FTW!
Anyways, as MS is a big proponent of utilizing SPF, they have created an excellent tool to create the record’s text. Yay team!
I’ve finally migrated my email from google apps to outlook.com. The key item that caused some issues was using domains.live.com. I had added the MX record that proved I owned it (and email was flowing correctly).
However, it was always set to “pending” and never switched to “active”. The problem is that the Hotmail.com MX record is the only MX record you can have. I had some of the old gmail records listed still, but at a much lower priority (higher number). Removing them immediately made it switch to active.
Grr.
In the last few releases, Synology has added L2TP/IPSec as an option for a VPN. I’ve never been able to get it to work on a Windows client until today.
Ports Required:
Fix on Windows clients – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926179
Update:
Using OpenVPN with port 443, for easier access: http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=45545#p215354
I finally got around to installing Windows 8.1 Public Preview. I am definitely liking the new digs. However, I already started to look into how to uninstall due to the following items that I’ve now gotten sorted out (hopefully helps someone else):
Oh well, with the bad comes the good:
Overall, seems to be good now that I’ve surpassed the biggest hurdle.
I have an app that can call a single script, sending it some variables. Unfortunately, I needed to run multiple scripts, but both utilizing the same variables. With bash, there is an easy way to do that, just append “$@” to the script.
For example, the application calls ‘combined_scripts.sh’ with variables $1 through $7. The contents of ‘combined_scripts.sh’ is below and the variables are passed through to script1 and script2.
#!/bin/sh ./script1.sh "$@" python ./script2.py "$@"
I’ve been fighting this for awhile as the mkvtoolnix package doesn’t have the correct dependencies when you install it. Well, after doing a bit more digging I’ve found the answer to get mkvmerge to work!
Packages required:
Then, you need to set an environment variable of LANG=C. This can be done from the command line.
Tada, works!
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=36845&start=15
*UPDATE – Jan 1 2016*
In addition to the LANG=C environment variable being set, I’ve also had to add in LC_ALL=C. For me, I run a script that calls mkvmerge, so I just set both of these in the script.
Well, after starting to put together my own quadcopter, Adam decided he wanted to get on the bandwagon too. However, he went down the kit route, where I’m still waiting for all my parts to arrive (not the ones listed in a previous post).
Well, after some initial indoor trials, he took it outside for some flying. It was a bit windy, and we were only using the small battery packs we had (1300mAh), but it was crazy fun. The GPS lock on his is nuts. I wish I was filming when the wind picked up and the quad banked into it…under its own brain power.
These things are crazy fun, and driving one is just like a first person shooter. I was pretty worried about how the controls would be, but after flying his, I’m not worried at all. Now I just wait for the servo wires and frame to get here, and I’m off to flying too!
A few pics and videos from the D800…
Understanding Electric Power Systems – Part 1
Understanding Electric Power Systems – Part 2
Understanding Electric Power Systems – Part 3
Understanding Electric Power Systems – Part 4
Understanding Electric Power Systems – Part 5
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Similar to previous identity management issues with SharePoint (I hate you FIM!), I just ran into another issue the other day. There is a requirement to have SharePoint 2010 be the place where users can managed their profile information, but the most important thing is to have images sync to AD so they can be used in Lync and Outlook.
The guys on the ground were pulling their hair out, as they had followed the instructions from two corroborating sites. Unfortunately, even with all of that setup, images were not being successfully added to AD.
Knowing how much fun FIM is, I did a bit of banging prior to arriving on site and found an article that sounded very similar to the issues they were having. Turns out it was the answer, but I’m going to duplicate a bit of it here just in case it disappears.
What you need to do is log into the box where FIM is running as the FIM user sync account. From there, add your mysite URL to the intranet zone in IE. Re-run the sync and it should work.
The reason is that the error IIS log error is because FIM is not passing the credentials as it is being challenged. By adding the mysite to the intranet zone, it will automatically send credentials and not wait to be prompted (unless a GPO has overridden this setting).
At home I have my NAS setup with VPN so that I can pretty much always get back on my home network if required. This comes in handy for running virtual machines. However, since I moved to the NAS I run my virtual machines from my desktop.
The whole point of the NAS was for less power and noise though, so I don’t want the desktop on all the time. My solution was wake-on-lan (WOL) and in Windows 7 it worked great. However, over the past couple of days, I’ve upgraded to Windows 8 RTM and I couldn’t get WOL working when the machine was powered off. It worked great when the machine was asleep, but not completely off (most of the time).
Turns out the default realtek NIC drivers in Windows 8 aren’t really the best, but downloading the Windows 8 drivers from the realtek website fixed the issues.
P.S. Being able to run Hyper-V instead of Virtualbox is nice, plus you don’t loose hibernation!