As a longtime OpenVPN user on Linux I thought it would be an easy task to set up OpenVPN as a service on Windows. Well, I was right… and couldn’t be wronger. Setting up the service is part of the installation notes for OpenVPN. Just search for “Running OpenVPN as a Windows Service” in the… Continue reading OpenVPN Windows Service Foo (Updated)
Lync CTRL-Enter Foo (Update)
It seems that Microsoft’s products creating more and more foos. This time it is Lync, also known as Skype for Business. It is okay, that Lync uses the Enter key to send a message or the CTRL-Enter combination start a call. But it is not okay that there is no way to change these key… Continue reading Lync CTRL-Enter Foo (Update)
Windows 8.1 Store App Can’t Open Foo
Windows continues to kick my behind. Out of the blue the Windows 8.1 installation on my workstation didn’t want to open the store app. Not that I really need or want it. But the same happened for the settings app, which was a little bit of a problem. I should have taken a screenshot but… Continue reading Windows 8.1 Store App Can’t Open Foo
avelsieve Updates…
I was using SquirrelMail and the Sieve plugin avelsieve for quite a while. And I once made the commitment on the mailing list to do some further development on avelsieve to make it work with newer PHP versions and fix other problems. The result was my own little update and some not yet released stuff… Continue reading avelsieve Updates…
Outlook Monthly Calendar View Foo
MS Outlook is in itself already a very annoying and not very pleasant piece of software. But sometimes you have to use it, no matter what. I will live. But running again and again into the problem that Outlook conveniently forgets the correct calendar view really became a problem. Especially when it happens to everybody… Continue reading Outlook Monthly Calendar View Foo
Mac OS Re-Install With New Apple ID Foo
Re-installing MacOS should be a piece of cake. Just go into recovery mode by pressing Command+R during boot and start recovering. It should be… But that is only true for the common case. If you perform the internet recovery and you are using a brand new Apple ID, then you are screwed. In that case… Continue reading Mac OS Re-Install With New Apple ID Foo
Automatic Ubuntu Kernel Clean Up Foo (Update)
Cleaning up old kernel images on a Ubuntu machine is a quite annoying task. If you forget it and you have a separate /boot partition, then you will sooner or later run out of disk space. And then of course all your updates will fail. Doing the clean up manually is, as mentioned, more than… Continue reading Automatic Ubuntu Kernel Clean Up Foo (Update)
The Apache “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName” Foo on Ubuntu
If you are using Apache on Ubuntu, then you most likely ran into the annoying warning about determining the fully qualified domain name of your server. Something like this will show up in your logs, on start of the server or on log rotation: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name,… Continue reading The Apache “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName” Foo on Ubuntu
Windows 7 “The Computer Restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error” Foo
HP’s Windows recovery installation seems to be a little bit broken. Or at least for me it was. While restoring the Windows 7 on an HP Elitebook 8540w I ran into some issues when the drivers installed. The system just stalled and nothing was moving anymore. After a reboot I saw this nice error message:… Continue reading Windows 7 “The Computer Restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error” Foo
Too Many Open Files Foo With Chrome On Ubuntu 13.10
The last Chrome update and one of the last Thunderbird updates caused some strange crashes of either on of them on my Ubuntu 13.10. All is fine, it runs great and all of a sudden *boom*, browser window gone, or email client gone. Luckily .xsession-errors exists and there I could find some entries like this:… Continue reading Too Many Open Files Foo With Chrome On Ubuntu 13.10