Robbie Crash

Full home audio without iTunes

I want to have speakers in every room of my house, and I want them to be able to play the same stations, or different ones. Basically I want to have digital FM radio across the whole house, so that as I walk from the living room, to the back

Kvelertak - Meir review

When my friend told me about this, I was so stoked. Now that I've heard the album, I'm not. tl;dr [http://tldr.robbiecrash.me/#510] I like the record, but it's not great. I'm actually not even sure that it'

dcpromo fails with An error with no description has occurred on Server 2008R2

While working to get rid of all our 2003/2008 DCs to get our AD to a 2012 Native level I came across one 2008 DC that was extremely difficult to rid ourselves of. It was created about a year ago to replace our 2003 FSMO master, and had been

Bash script to automatically restart MySQL when website database connection is down

I've been noticing that periodically my MySQL service will hang and require a restart. It's easy enough to SSH in and restart it, but I only catch it after the fact. So I wrote this little script which curls my website, sees that it's

On Rob Ford

I'm very happy the fat fuck is out of office. He's bad for Toronto in many ways. From his idiotic stance on mass transit, his shit take on bikes, giving Don Cherry an ounce of attention, trouncing worker's right to strike, his stance on

Google Nexus

Nexus 4 Launch Failure Part 2

Then in addition to the problems I wrote about [https://robbiecrash.me/?p=452] on Launch day, today Google starts mailing people to let them know they're going to be facing 3 week shipping delays. [http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/11/15/incoming-google-begins-informing-nexus-4-buyers-of-backordered-shipments-of-up-to-three-weeks/] Everyone I know that purchased a

Nexus 4 Launch Failures

As soon as it was announced that it was on sale, myself and many others flocked to the Google store to try and buy a Nexus 4. As with many others, I could not, and found the entire experience hearkened back more to the failed Nexus One launch [http://www.

Things that make me happy...

Going through my site-stats, and list of common referrers I found a few neat things, the first is that Google provides about 98% of my traffic. That wasn't surprising, but I'm interested in the following two referrers, which are rather frequent, and are not public websites.

Microsoft

Change default font in Office 2010 (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint) by GPO

I was asked if it was possible to rebrand our Office apps so that by default, we'd all be compliant with corporate branding when composing email, PowerPoint presentations, and Word documents. If I didn't get to do fun things with computers, that would actually sound like

Configure Multiple PPTP VPNs on Tomato Based Router

I have a VPN setup from my router to work so that I don't have to dial one up when I need to get to some server from home. However, I also live in Canada and want to be able to purchase stuff from Google Play that I

Installing Protocol Buffers on OpenIndiana

While revisiting Mosh, I came across an issue I didn't remember when going through my initial Moshtribulations. Trying to compile the Protocol Buffers failed with the following error due to a missing package: tl;dr [http://tldr.robbiecrash.me/#383] google/protobuf/text_format.cc:36:18: math.

Generate Certificate for TomatoUSB from Active Directory CA

I wanted to install a cert on my router so that I could stop getting shit for not trusting it when I log in. However, installing the cert on every device that I access it with. Since I've got all my computers on a domain, I can just

Set multiple custom %PATH% variables through Group Policy

I have been trying to figure out how to get all my machines to use the same PATH since it's getting annoying always forgetting that things aren't included on my desktop PATH that are on my laptop, and vice versa. tl;dr [http://tldr.robbiecrash.me/

drunk

Compiling Mosh for OpenIndiana II

I recently wrote about compiling Mosh for OI [https://robbiecrash.me/?p=218], and ended by saying I couldn't get it working. Thanks to the help from the list post I mentioned, I got it compiled, and was able to execute the binary. However, it didn't

Compiling Mosh for OpenIndiana

A buddy of mine has convinced me of the merits of Mosh [http://mosh.mit.edu], and I want to use it with my OpenIndiana file server. There's no package for it, so I've got to compile from source. This is the first time I'

Satan - Court in the Act

This is hands down one of the best metal records I've heard in ages. Obviously they're from the 80s, there's no way a band name like Satan would've made it out of the beginning days of metal unused. NWOBHM era, but this

Static IP on multiple NICs in OpenIndiana with NWAM

I wanted to set one of the NICs on my OI box to have a static since it's got a direct connection to my ESX box, bypassing any switches, and directly linked to a VM on that machine. I routinely transfer large chunks of data (1-20GB files) from

Easier than it sounds

NTFS Deny permissions confusion

I work with a bunch of very green entry level help desk folks, and sometimes they get requests to change permissions on files/folders. This causes lots of problems because they apparently don't understand NTFS permissions, and subsequently break things by improperly applying Full Control or Deny permissions

bashrc

Migrating to OpenIndiana

I recently had a bunch of problems running ZFS on Ubuntu, and so since that is the FS I've decided on using for the foreseeable future, I wanted to move to something FOSS that was actually built to use it. I decided to go with OpenSolaris, and then

AFP

OSX 10.6, 10.7 AFP and OpenIndiana 151a

With Windows, I have no problems accessing any of the SMB shares on my OI file server, with OSX, not so much. OS X's tendency to disconnect from SMB is pretty well documented [http://www.google.ca/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=hp&q=os+x++disconnects+samba+

ACL

Modifying files over CIFS or SMB (Samba) shares on OpenIndiana 151a

I was hit by an apparent bug in OpenIndiana that was fixed in an older release of Solaris which doesn't fully set permissions when you use the default chmod in OI.  Because of this, I couldn't delete or modify files via the CIFS shares, and possibly

ifmon.dll

MigrateWinsockConfiguration could not be located in the dynamic link library MSWSock.dll

So, I was given the task of figuring out why Outlook will not connect to Exchange for an executive. The obvious quickfix of setting a new profile up kept reporting that Exchange is offline. A quick check the event logs, tonnes of  Userenv errors, event ID 1053: Windows cannot determine

funny

motorhead.robbiecrash.me

I thought it would be really funny to a subdomain that just redirected you to a random Motorhead video on YouTube. So I did. tl:dr [https://tldr.robbiecrash.me#59] To make motorhead.robbiecrash.me [http://motorhead.robbiecrash.me] work, I first pulled a list of all the Motorhead

DRAC 5 console access on Server 2008 with IE9

Horseshit... It refuses to work in FireFox5, even with the instructions I found detailing how to extract the plugins and manually install it. So, IE it is... It's doable, but it's a stupid ugly pain in the ass. I assume if you're trying to

Something to be said for simplicity...

I'm not a fan of SonicWall or Juniper networking gear, because I find them to be needlessly complex and overpriced for their functionality. Due to this lack of appreciation, I'm not familiar with them because I've focused more on other platforms.  My distaste for