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Linking Pentaho Business Intelligence Server 5.0 Community Edition to Active Directory

February 24, 2014February 28, 2014 Tom Laermans
So.. You’ve installed Pentaho BI Server 5 CE, and have followed their documentation for the CE and even the Enterprise Edition, looked high and low for solutions and blog and forum posts but it&... Read More

Setting up a Postfix-based relay server with user authentication via MySQL, redux

September 25, 2013 Tom Laermans
Right before publishing my previous article on how to set up a Postfix-based server with MySQL SASL authentication, I stumbled upon another way to do it (which I briefly touched in the alternatives se... Read More

Setting up a Postfix-based relay server with user authentication via MySQL

September 23, 2013September 25, 2013 Tom Laermans
Important: This post has been updated in a newer article, which adds support for encrypted passwords. I ran into some issues while setting up a mail server where the users were authenticated through a... Read More

Retrieving hard disk temperature on an embedded NAS system

September 9, 2013 Tom Laermans
A few years ago, I bought a Zyxel NSA310 single-disk 2TB NAS system. Thanks to Peter I have had a Debian squeeze – now wheezy – chroot running on it ever since. Recently I was going over m... Read More

Playing a YouTube video on your XBMC Media Center from the CLI

August 18, 2013 Tom Laermans
I’m regularly sitting in front of my TV with my laptop, surfing and chatting; many YouTube links pass on IRC or while browsing forums and such. Watching these videos would be a lot nicer on the ... Read More

Outgoing SMTP authentication on Zimbra 8

January 3, 2013January 2, 2014 Tom Laermans
Yesterday we brought our Zimbra 8.0 install online. All outgoing mail should be relayed through our relay server, but as authentication settings are not available through the web interface and all con... Read More

Configuring Zimbra to use your own (commercial) SSL certificate

October 25, 2012October 26, 2012 Tom Laermans
I recently installed a new instance of Zimbra 8.0 (actually, I started just before 8.0 came out and upgrade 7.0 to 8.0) and wanted to enable SSL with our wildcard domain certificate. However, document... Read More

Combined master/slave operation with PowerDNS

October 16, 2012October 18, 2012 Tom Laermans
I am running a “central DNS server”, powered by PowerDNS 3.1, which contains a number of domains natively in MySQL. The ‘type’ value for these domains is set to ‘MASTER&#... Read More

ISC DHCP Failover

August 2, 2012 Tom Laermans
Configured ISC DHCPd failover this morning. Setup was  pretty smooth overall, although you have to take care that when you restart your (before “only”) dhcpd, it will go into recovery mod... Read More

Hello world!

July 31, 2012July 31, 2012 Tom Laermans
Welcome to my new weblog. The old one hadn’t been touched for quite a while, as most of my social status updates now happen on Facebook and/or Twitter. I’ve revamped the main webpage (usin... Read More
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