Author Archives: Martin Guppy

Using the WordPress database class within your own scripts

By Martin Guppy | Published: June 4, 2010
Every now and again you want to write a simple PHP script, either for use in real cron or maybe for your ajax requests that uses your existing WordPress tables without having to load or even partially load the WordPress core. There are a multitude of ways to achieve this and one method I have [...]
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Tips for Likewise Open on Linux

By Martin Guppy | Published: April 8, 2010
Likewise Open makes it very easy to authenticate users on a Linux machine using Windows Active Directory Domain Services and in today’s mixed Operating System environments it is possible to integrate assorted services across your network. Once upon a time I was 100% Linux but got frustrated with the ever complicated setup of LDAP for [...]
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Compiling the Realtek RTL8111 driver on XenServer

By Martin Guppy | Published: March 3, 2010
I have been using Citrix XenServer for a short while now and it has become my virtual(is/iz)ation solution of choice. Things were going great until I started to have problems after upgrading… It seems my onboard Realtek network interface (Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)) was not [...]
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Installing Gentoo using Stacklet Xen3 images on to Citrix XenServer

By Martin Guppy | Published: January 5, 2010
There are many ways you can actually accomplish the installation of VM’s (DomU’s) on Xen and XenServer – from the extreme and complex howto’s to simply using pre-built images and templates. This Howto is a mixture of both and has been written for the following reasons: I found a great site called Stacklet that builds [...]
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New lease of life for our D-Link Wireless Router

By Martin Guppy | Published: September 3, 2009
Since upgrading our wireless network with our new Netgear RangeMax Next Wireless-N Router Gigabit Edition (see my post ‘Belkin Wireless Router is just rubbish‘ explaining our upgrading path), our humble D-Link DIR-300 Wireless G Router seemed to be doomed into a life of gathering dust along side many other bits and pieces that I may [...]
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Belkin Wireless Router is just rubbish

By Martin Guppy | Published: August 24, 2009
For a while now we have been configuring our network to suit our needs – we have a wired segment for our main server and client PC’s and we have 2 small computers we use for all our multimedia – one is currently hooked up to our HDTV and the other is in the process [...]
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Apt-cacher proxy, Translation index files and apt-get update errors

By Martin Guppy | Published: August 4, 2009
After setting up apt-cacher on our home server and setting all our other computers to use it as a proxy caching service, we found that apt-get update and Update Manager always fails while fetching Translations. Get:5 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_AU [2734B] Ign http://mirror.files.bigpond.com intrepid/restricted Translation-en_AU Err http://mirror.files.bigpond.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_AU Error reading from server - read (104 [...]
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Hello world!

By Martin Guppy | Published: October 26, 2008
Hello once more to people that know me… I can hear you shouting… “Why do you have a new blog?” My personal Blog has not been touched for a while and since the usage of Facebook, my friends and family never really visit it… but still, I will hang on to the domain name and [...]
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