http://geekdom.wesmo.com Geeks of the World Unite! Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:07:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Integrating an AIX system in to Active Directory is not entirely straight forward.  Integration in to an Active Directory domain for user authentication can be done utilizing the following steps (similar to that found in http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/AIX/README): Download and install the krb5.client.rte package for AIX. Download the pre-built AIX 5.2 (compatible with AIX ... http://geekdom.wesmo.com/2008/09/25/aix-integration-in-to-active-directory/ I found out the hard way that the monitoring tool Cacti does not really support rrdtool 1.3.2. Fortunately, there is an easy workaround. Edit cacti/lib/rrd.php and comment out line 1685: // return "--font " . strtoupper($type) . ":" . $size . ":" . $font . RRD_NL; http://geekdom.wesmo.com/2008/09/15/cacti-rrdtool-13x-no-graphs/ After using and tinkering with MythTV for over a year, a small pile of adjustments have stacked up that have been made to both the backend and the frontend that have improved performance. These can't be listed as must have's, but they definitely are good to have. Some of ... http://geekdom.wesmo.com/2008/07/02/mythtv-tweaks/ While at a previous employer, I came across an interesting article in the now-defunct SysAdmin magazine which covered, soup-to-nuts, setting up a rather basic OpenVPN server and NSIS-based Windows client package. It wasn't long before I got hip deep in to customizing the Windows installer NSI script, and tweaking ... http://geekdom.wesmo.com/2008/07/02/openvpn-windows-one-awesome-vpn-setup-quick-and-easy/ The party line from both RIM (makers of the Blackberry) and Verizon was that there was no way to move SMS messages from one Blackberry to another.  The provided software from both parties only allowed backing up the contacts, email, and any related data (photos, video, etc), but they both ... http://geekdom.wesmo.com/2008/06/19/save-those-blackberry-sms-messages/