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Comment on Force 802.11n on Airport Extreme… by Tim

Tim — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:21:37 +0000

Anders,

Thanks for visiting. I’m glad I could help!

-Tim

Comment on Force 802.11n on Airport Extreme… by Anders

Anders — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:05:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! Just what I was looking for.

Comment on Mac OS X 10.6.4 breaks iChat…Again… by Tim

Tim — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:47:49 +0000

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for visiting. If you would have read my other post about the the 10.6.3 update, you would have learned that the solution didn’t come directly from me, but from the user community at Apple’s forums. I get a lot of search hits regarding this issue and I thank you for sharing a better way to resolve it.

-Tim

Comment on Mac OS X 10.6.4 breaks iChat…Again… by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:51:23 +0000

Sorry man, but this is some pretty bonehead advice to just put out there as the first thing to do without telling people just what it does. You do realize that the jabberd2.db is the database that (among other things) holds your users rosters right? After just deleting this file everyone will have to reauthorize their contacts, not fun with 10 users…miserable with any more than 10.

A much better way to fix this (and was the way to do it with 10.6.3 by all other OS X admins I know) is as follows…

$sudo serveradmin stop jabber
$sudo mv /var/jabberd/sqlite/jabberd2.db /var/jabberd/sqlite/jabberd2.dbOLD
$sqlite3 /var/jabberd/sqlite/jabberd2.dbOLD .dump > /var/jabberd/sqlite/jabberd2.dump
$sudo sqlite3 /var/jabberd/sqlite/jabberd2.db < /var/jabberd/sqlite/jabberd2.dump
$sudo chown _jabber /var/jabberd/sqlite/jabberd2.db
$sudo serveradmin start jabber

On all the SLS I manage the issue has been corruption of the sqlite db, and doing a dump strips out the bad data. You will notice that the newly created jabberd2.db file is a few kb smaller than the original.

Comment on Dynamic Multipoint VPNs… by Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:30:22 +0000

Thanks! It’s a great solution that scales well. What I’ve also found is that the DMVPN hub will be able to detect if the spoke is being NAT’ed. You can see what I’m referring to using the “sh dmvpn” command.

-Tim

Comment on Dynamic Multipoint VPNs… by harishchandra Yadav

harishchandra Yadav — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:50:23 +0000

Good explanantion of DMVPN. I am aplnning to setup DMVPn with NAT and dual ISP at Hub and Spoke end for redundancy.

Comment on Chopin’s Prelude No. 4, Op. 28… by Tim

Tim — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:48:10 +0000

It just takes practice and the desire to learn. I’ve only been playing for 8 months.

-Tim

Comment on Chopin’s Prelude No. 4, Op. 28… by James Beith

James Beith — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:14:36 +0000

Makes me wish I could play piano.

Comment on My iPad Review… by Tim

Tim — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:23:47 +0000

I installed the iPad version and played with it a bit. I must say it is really cool to be able to make notations on the iPad. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the trial version of MusicReader for Mac to try out the iPad/Mac sync feature. Unfortunately, the iPad MusicReader app crashes after a successful sync across the network. I tried multiple times to no avail. It’s a good concept though.

-Tim

Comment on My iPad Review… by Tim

Tim — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:08:27 +0000

Hi Marco,

Thanks for the info. From what I read on the website, MusicReader sounds like a very cool app for iPad. One of the things I don’t like about Sheets is that you currently don’t have the ability to add to the library of music the app comes with. I’m a very big fan of Chopin’s work and some of the pieces I like are missing. It appears MusicReader has that functionality.

-Tim