Steve Radich's Blog

Installing Mono (C# / .Net) on Solaris / OpenSolaris

sales@bitshop.com — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:25:00 GMT

Like many admins from time to time I need a quick script, since I'm a .Net programmer and also admin of plenty of systems I exceed my bash / perl knowledge in various situations and turn to .Net - Usually this is no issue but today it is.

I need my script to run on OpenSolaris, I could have someone else here write what I need but it's just as easy to write it as to explain it for this fairly trivial script.

So I dug into installing Mono on OpenSolaris and found no simple directions... until now...

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Adding a facebook "Like" Button to your web site

sales@bitshop.com — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:28:00 GMT

I have made a quick video walkthru of adding a Facebook "Like" button to your web site..

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Destroy your Android Cell phone NOW, before it's taken from you.

sales@bitshop.com — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Per Oracle's lawsuit:

"an order that all copies made or used in violation of Oracle America's copyrights, and all means by which such copies may be reproduced, be impounded and destroyed or otherwise reasonably disposed of."

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Help, my EVO can not longer...

sales@bitshop.com — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:16:00 GMT

So perhaps you are like me and accepted the Sprint OTA (over the air) upgrade to Android 2.2 on your EVO? Well if you're as frustrated with the upgrade as me you've already sold your EVO due to the problems.. like not being able to downgrade to eliminate the bugs it has!

Here's some work arounds I've found for various problems:

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Help: My site is indexed with https:// instead of http:// in google

support@bitshop.com — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:01:00 GMT

When I google for my site it returns the https:// secure site instead of my normal site.

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SPAM: Internal Revenue Service W-2 form update?

sales@bitshop.com — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:21:00 GMT

Spams are such a pain, but when you get a letter from the IRS saying to update your W-2 form you may be tempted to open it.

The exact message I received was:

From: Internal Revenue Service
Subject: W-2 form update

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Traveling and use T-Mobile? Expect no phone service..

sales@bitshop.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:59:00 GMT

Those that know me know I carry two cell phones, from two companies, using two different radio technologies to make sure I have coverage anywhere I go.. T-Mobile has been my GSM provider since 2003.. but last weekend I found a surprise.. They dropped coverage in...

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QWest refuses ALL email if you write to a bad email address?

sales@bitshop.com — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:14:00 GMT

QWest, the telecom, using unusually strong arm tactics is refusing all email from us because they say a large % of emails going to people's accounts are accounts who have full mailboxes or no longer use QWest service (but haven't updated their email address with our customers).

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QuickBooks - PDF Printer - Add Port - Access Denied

sales@bitshop.com — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:21:00 GMT

We run QuickBooks via Remote Desktop for some customers (locked down server, ONLY allows quickbooks and nothing else). A customer trying to configure the Quickbooks PDF Printer couldn't get it to work.

When they tried to "Add Port" they received "Access Denied"

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How can I manage multiple OpenVPN connections on one machine?

sales@bitshop.com — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:53:00 GMT

OpenVPN, a free VPN offering, is a great solution for accessing your internal network – We support various configurations with OpenVPN including virtual offices allowing any computer in the virtual office access to any other computer.

Sometimes however you need to run more than one VPN client, the reasons for this can be complex but if you need to know how you can…

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