Author Archives: hedscratchers

About hedscratchers

A UK ex-pat now living in the USA.

Foscam FI8910W compared to FI8918W

Posted on June 8, 2014

I already own several Foscam FI8918Ws, so I have some experience with Foscam, I had it up and running within a few minutes, assigned a static IP using a wired ethernet connection, then set-up the wireless. I use all of my … Continue reading →

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GPS, Garmin 850 touchscreen goes crazy

Posted on November 19, 2013

I have a Garmin 850 GPS (with European maps installed) which has served me well for around 4 years, the only issue being that the device that mounts it to the windshield, the rubber suction cup, well, loses suction and … Continue reading →

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Getting Oracle Instant Client, PHP, and oci8 all working

Posted on October 25, 2013

I had one hell of a game getting all of this working together, it didn’t help that the server has been CIS hardened, anyway, here is how I got it working, and one word of advice, everything seems very version … Continue reading →

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CentOS6.4 – X11 Forwarding session using SSH fails

Posted on September 27, 2013

From time to time I use X11 forwarding to connect to various web management interfaces on remote servers, I had just done a new install of CenOS6.4 64-bit minimal to try out Backuppc, went to run the webGUI by doing … Continue reading →

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Samba troubleshooting tips & tricks

Posted on September 25, 2013

You are having problems getting samba to do your beck and call, and it’s not working as it should, well here a few things to help you diagnose things – it’s assumed you have the basic already configured. First, crank … Continue reading →

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Rolling back Samba to an older version on RHEL

Posted on September 25, 2013

I recently had the need to downgrade the version of samba that comes with RHEL6.4 64-bit, I had authentication issues within our domain environment with the newer versions, older versions of samba seem to work fine, so I needed to … Continue reading →

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Creating a SELinux policy for the named daemon in a chrooted BIND9 configuration

Posted on September 5, 2013

I recently configured chrooted BIND9 slave on RHEL6.4 64-bit, with SELinux enabled, with this enabled the named daemon failed to start, easily tested by disabling SELinux, and then starting it, which would then be successful.  So, I needed to create … Continue reading →

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